Ava Chin writes a popular wild edibles column for The New York Times. She has also written for the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, Saveur, the New York Post, The Village Voice, Spin, and others. She lives in New York City.
“You’ll root for Ava Chin from page one of her winsome memoir.
Loves lost, herbs, mushrooms, and vegetation of all sorts found,
and then how love—elusive and rare—follows suit like a `patch of
violets’ among the weeds. Her story is not only about where to look
for love and forage for edibles, but rather about how to keep your
heart wide open while doing so.”
*Monique Truong, bestselling author of Bitter in the Mouth*
“Like the Metaphysical poets, Ava Chin finds the world in a weed,
making us hungry for mysteries, edible and otherwise. So spare and
careful is her prose, one at first is unaware of how moving and
instructive her foraging excursions are. But by the time this
quiet, enchanting memoir ends, and she has unearthed not only
exotic foods but much of love and life as well, we realize a
heightened taste for everything.”
*Roger Rosenblatt, bestselling author of Making Toast*
“EATING WILDLY is a pithy, elegant memoir that takes the reader
into the urban wilderness and the thorny complexities of family and
love. Ava Chin is a warm-hearted, intelligent, and trustworthy
guide to hidden treasures and hard-won finds, whether a trove of
oyster mushrooms, a backyard mulberry tree, or compassion and
forgiveness.”
*Kate Christensen, award-winning author of The Great Man*
“Ava Chin’s memoir has forever altered my relationship with nature;
as a city girl I finally grasp the concept of finding oneself in
the woods. The author forages through her past much in the same way
she hunts for mushrooms, tenderly, with an almost worshipful
respect for the delicate process of unearthing one’s true self; the
hidden treasure lying buried under the debris of everyday
existence. I was left feeling awed by her courageous honesty and
thrilled by her story of self-made redemption. Ava has inspired me
to look deeper than the surface, both internally and externally,
and I have a feeling she will convert many an urban dweller to the
joys of `eating wildly.’”
*Deborah Feldman, bestselling author of Unorthodox and Exodus*
“EATING WILDLY, Ava Chin’s terrific new memoir, connects it
all—nature, self-discovery, and finding love. It’s a journey of
letting go and getting grubby, with lots of tips for urban food
foragers. Chin is a personable narrator, who gently instructs while
collecting wild edibles, and reveals her sometimes painful past
with wry wisdom.”
*Novella Carpenter, bestselling author of Farm City*
“Forget the dude chefs and rockstar butchers. Chin’s clear, honest
prose forges the link between locavores and immigrant foodways
without pretense or pose, sharing heartache and joy—and all the
muddied life that roils in between. Like sitting with a good friend
at the kitchen table, EATING WILDLY is a pleasure that lasts long
after you're done.”
*Tracie McMillan, bestselling author of The American Way of
Eating*
“EATING WILDLY intertwines the explorations of New York City’s
urban flora and the inner life of a thirtysomething single woman
into a memoir rich with revelations, both personal and culinary. It
makes you want to grab a bag and run out and forage in the parks so
you too can have Wild Morel Linguini.”
*Jennifer 8. Lee, bestselling author of The Fortune Cookie
Chronicles*
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