{"product_id":"all-the-wild-hungers-a-season-of-cooking-and-cancer-paperback","title":"All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKaren Babine\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"My sister is pregnant with a Lemon this week, Week 14, and this is amusing. My mother's uterine tumor, the size of a cabbage, is Week 30, and this is terrifying.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen her mother is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, Karen Babine--a cook, collector of thrifted vintage cast iron, and fiercely devoted daughter, sister, and aunt--can't help but wonder: \u003cem\u003efeed a fever, starve a cold, but what do we do for cancer?\u003c\/em\u003e And so she commits herself to preparing her mother anything she will eat, a vegetarian diving headfirst into the unfamiliar world of bone broth and pot roast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these essays, Babine ponders the intimate connections between food, family, and illness. What draws us toward food metaphors to describe disease? What is the power of language, of naming, in a medical culture where patients are too often made invisible? How do we seek meaning where none is to be found--and can we create it from scratch? And how, Babine asks as she bakes cookies with her small niece and nephew, does a family create its own food culture across generations?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGenerous and bittersweet, \u003cem\u003eAll the Wild Hungers\u003c\/em\u003e is an affecting chronicle of one family's experience of illness and of a writer's culinary attempt to make sense of the inexplicable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKaren Babine\u003c\/b\u003e is two-time Minnesota Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eAll the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWater and What We Know: Following the Roots of a Northern Life\u003c\/i\u003e. She also edits \u003ci\u003eAssay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies\u003c\/i\u003e. She is currently an assistant professor of English at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 08, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771449803040,"sku":"9781571313720","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ef7e11591450c13bebcecc1d664c06a7.webp?v=1780386775","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/all-the-wild-hungers-a-season-of-cooking-and-cancer-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}