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Full Moon Feast: Food and the Hunger for Connection

by Jessica Prentice

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Foreword by Deborah Madison

Recipe List

Introduction: Lunar Calendars and Traditional Food Ways
Traditional & indigenous moon names; agrarian food systems; annual cycles of life

Chapter 1: The Hunger Moon
Obsessive dieting; the excesses of the American food system; seasonality; small farms

Chapter 2: The Sap Moon
Maple sugaring; eating as political act; legacy of cane sugar; sweetness in human diets

Chapter 3: The Egg Moon
The egg in myth; wild eggs in nomadic diets; chickens in agriculture; eggs in cuisine

Chapter 4: The Milk Moon
Pastoralist traditions; grazing; dairy and health; symbolism of cows; milk & the feminine

Chapter 5: The Moon of Making Fat
Fat phobia; body image; indigenous wisdom about fat; fats & ecological contamination

Chapter 6: The Mead Moon
History of honey & bees; mythos of fermentation; human desire for transcendent vision

Chapter 7: The Wort Moon
The healing cauldron; medicinal herbs; Western herbalist tradition; herbal ales

Chapter 8: The Corn Moon
Birth of agriculture; grains and seeds; sourdoughs and porridges; genetic modification

Chapter 9: The Moon When Salmon Returns to Earth
Indigenous ways of catching salmon; salmon as keystone species; marine aquaculture

Chapter 10: The Blood Moon
Vegetarianism; humane animal husbandry; cycle of life & death; using whole animal

Chapter 11: The Snow Moon
Pre-industrial food preservation; traditional refrigeration; lacto-fermented vegetables

Chapter 12: The Moon of Long Nights
Light and dark; effects of electricity on diet; depression; the holidays; going within

Chapter 13: The Wolf Moon
Effects of food systems on wild areas; human beings as part of nature; protecting life

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Full Moon Feast

Food and the Hunger for Connection
by Jessica Prentice

Full Moon Feast invites us to a table brimming with locally grown foods, radical wisdom, and communal nourishment.

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