A Year Right Here: Adventures with Food and Family in the Great Nearby by Jess Thomson

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    • Categories: Beverages / drinks (no-alcohol); Winter
    • Ingredients: yellow beets; carrots; tart apples; fresh ginger; turmeric; lemons
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  • ISBN 10 0295741546
  • ISBN 13 9780295741543
  • Published Apr 13 2017
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 320
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher University of Washington Press

Publishers Text

Armed with "The Here List" and a Type-A personality, Seattle-based writer and cookbook author Jess Thomson sets out to spend a year exploring the food of the Pacific Northwest with her family. Planning to revel in the culinary riches of the region and hoping to break her son, Graham, of his childhood pickiness, the adventures into the great nearby include building a backyard chicken coop, truffle hunting in Oregon, and razor clamming on the Washington coast. Her plans to spend "a year right here" are complicated by efforts to help Graham overcome some of the mobility limitations of cerebral palsy, and thwarted further by her own limitations that come to the fore when she attempts the "Gourmet Century," a hilly one-hundred-kilometer bike ride with gourmet food stops along the way.

With touching, funny, sometimes devastating stories that we all can relate to, Jess pulls the reader in as she abandons "The Here List" and learns that letting go can be just as important as holding on.

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