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It's Only Slow Food Until You Try to Eat It: Misadventures of a Suburban Hunter-Gatherer - Paperback | Diverse Reads

It's Only Slow Food Until You Try to Eat It: Misadventures of a Suburban Hunter-Gatherer

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“Mr. Heavey takes us back to the joys—and occasional pitfalls—of the humble edibles around us, and his conclusions ring true.”—Wall Street Journal

Longtime Field & Stream contributor Bill Heavey has become the magazine’s most popular voice by writing for sportsmen with more enthusiasm than skill. In his first full-length book, Heavey chronicles his attempts to “eat wild,” seeing how much of his own food he can hunt, fish, grow, and forage.

But Heavey is not your typical hunter-gatherer. Living inside the D.C. Beltway, and a single dad to a twelve-year-old daughter with an aversion to “nature food,” he’s almost completely ignorant of gardening and foraging. Incensed at the squirrels destroying his tomatoes, he is driven to rodent murder—by arrow. Along the way, Heavey is guided by a number of unlikely teachers, from the eccentric Paula, who runs an under-the-table bait business, to Michelle, an attractive single mom unselfconsciously devoted to eating locally. To the delight of his readers and the embarrassment of his daughter, he suffers blood loss, humiliation, and learns, as he puts it, that “‘edible’ is not to be confused with ‘tasty.’”

ISBN-13: 9780802121318

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Grove/Atlantic - Inc.

Publication Date: 06-17-2014

Pages: 288

Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.60(d)

Bill Heavey is an editor-at-large for Field & Stream, where he has written since 1993. His work has appeared in numerous publications including Men’s Journal, Outside, the Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times Magazine, and Best American Magazine Writing.

Table of Contents

Introduction: How Hard Could it Be? 1

Chapter 1 Blood, Guts, and Other Signs of Spring 16

Chapter 2 A "Savory Little Fellow" Rediscovered 34

Chapter 3 The Homicidal Gardener 51

Chapter 4 Of Cattail Disasters and the Blue Goose Incident 67

Chapter 5 Enter the Girl, Sour Cherry pie, and Five Bites of My Own Lawn 93

Chapter 6 Among the Cajuns 122

Chapter 7 Of Closet Carnivores and the Gospel of Small Fish 152

Chapter 8 "You Don't "Want to Grab Anything Has Red Eyes" 209

Chapter 9 People of the Caribou 230

Epilogue: Don't Ever Let That Man Near a Stove 261

Acknowledgments 273