Hearty
On Cooking, Eating, and Growing Food for Pleasure and Subsistence
by andrea bennett
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Pub Date 24 Sep 2024 | Archive Date 31 Jul 2024
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Description
Thoughtful, wide-ranging essays exploring food as a source of pleasure, practical creativity, and sustenance
Food is the primary way andrea bennett connects with the world. They worked in the restaurant industry for a decade, and though they don’t eat much meat and can’t eat gluten, they take as much pleasure in food as Jeffrey Steingarten, Anthony Bourdain, or Guy Fieri. When they want to show someone they care, they cook them a meal.
Hearty follows bennett’s passion and curiosity into kitchens, gardens, fields, and factories, offering a compassionate and compelling perspective on food from seed to table. Combining journalism, cultural commentary, and personal reflection, Hearty dives deep into specific foods, such as chutney, carrots, and ice cream, but also explores appetite and desire in food media, the art of substitution, seed saving, and the triumphs and trials of being a home gardener, how the food system works (and doesn’t), and complex societal narratives around health and pleasure. Nuanced and non-prescriptive, Hearty is a feast that invites all food lovers to the table.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781770417601 |
| PRICE | US$18.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 240 |
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Featured Reviews
Donna R, Reviewer
I read this book in one sitting and really enjoyed the stories, the food and how it relates to life and pleasures in life. It is very interesting and fun to read. It covers so many aspects of food from growing to health to eating. I learned so much about food which I enjoyed too. A great food book and story.
Thank you NetGalley and ECW Press for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book.
Kayla T, Reviewer
This book was so fun! I haven't read anything like it! The short stories/essays kept my entertained while diving into some really deep topics. Food is the center of many households, upbringings, and cultural identities. It's can represent tradition and family. I like the addition of the home gardener perspective as I feel like that is extremely relatable in today's society.
This book was a beautiful blend between personal stories, reflections, journalism, and commentary on past and present representation of food, food media and food production (in the form of personal gardens). Definitely recommend!
Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for an arc of this book!
Annie B, Reviewer
Hearty is a well curated essay collection about food, food culture, and growing and eating food by andrea bennett. Due out 3rd Sept 2024 from ECW Press, it's 240 pages and will be available in paperback and ebook formats.
The author has a vital, restful, interesting voice and the ruminations from the book are well written and pleasant, occasionally profound, and engaging. From making lilac syrup to real conversations about what and how we prepare food, how we take care of our community, what interpersonal relations mean in a context of food and nourishment, and even the politics/philosophy of dietary restrictions and vegetarianism.
This is not in any meaningful way a recipe/cooking book. It's worth reading, but not for the recipes. It's not an academic treatise either, but it is well annotated, and the chapter notes are likely worth the price of the book just for the links for further reading. A few of the essays included in this collection were previously published in other forms in other publications.
andrea bennett was not previously on the radar, but is certainly now one to for whom to keep an eye out. They write well and perceptively.
Four and a half stars. The book would be an excellent choice for public library acquisition, home use, smallholders, gardening groups, and gifting.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
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