Inspired by her new home in New England and the slow food movement re-energizing sustainable farming, Kate Christensen picks up where she left off in her last memoir, Blue Plate Special. In an ode to How to Cook a Wolf, M.F.K. Fisher's classic culinary guide about surviving poverty and war with grace, Christensen creates a tempting, modern stew that will delight readers as only she can, using the magic ingredients of true love, personal appetite, humor, history, and original recipes. Christensen also examines the dilemma of food scarcity in a time of possible climate collapse, turning to her own backyard for long-term solutions. Taking tips from the lives and landscapes of the farmers, fishermen, hunters, and families who live in this grueling northern climate and still produce abundant, healthful food, she retraces the histories of staple ingredients native to the region and explores what it's like to live, love, and cook on the edge. That Christensen, the award-winning author of such novels as The Epicure s Lament and The Great Man, ended up in Maine is her good fortune, and therefore ours. The Pine Tree state is a food lover s paradise. The author enriches the book with her adopted state s history of lobsters, tales of foraging for black trumpet mushrooms and stories of intrepid Mainers who have worked the land. --The Washington Post I like that Ms. Christensen shows us, as M.F.K. Fisher did, the pleasures of a world of food where the scrupulous weighing out of precise calories, vitamins and other nutritional units doesn t exist, because to labor over it is to exist without spirit...Her book gets us thinking about what we are really hungry for and whether the rules of eating have begun to outweigh its pleasures. --The Wall Street Journal Fans of Christensen s novels and of her cooking-and-living blog, who have drooled for years over her fairy-tale travel, culinary, and romantic adventures with Brendan, will delight in the raucously, unabashedly ecstatic paean to her adopted home in the northern corner of New England, and to her delicious, contented life. --Chicago Tribune Kate Christensen is the author of Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites as well as six previous novels, including The Epicure’s Lament and The Great Man, which won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. She writes about food, drink, life, and books for numerous publications, most recently The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Cherry Bombe, Vogue, Food & Wine, The Wall Street Journal, and many anthologies. She blogs about food and life in New England at katechristensen.net. Christensen lives in Portland, Maine, and the White Mountains of New Hampshire.