HEARTY On Cooking, Eating, and Growing Food for Pleasure and Subsistence

Canadian producer and actress Panta Mosleh embraces these essays. She narrates in a strong voice and a clear tone, neatly adopting the author's sometimes interrogative style. Author bennett writes with unusual candor about their issues. These include being bipolar and estranged from their mother, their cooking trials while making gluten-free macarons, and their failures and successes in their garden. Food--how it is grown, where, and for whom--is the subject of many of these essays. A poet, editor, and essayist, the author tries recipes, stores seeds, and experiments with various crops and methods of resisting pests in their home in British Columbia. They write well on the joys of carrots and the importance of seed saving. Much of this collection is a conversation on sustainability. A.D.M. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine [Published: OCTOBER 2024]