“In the culinary world of the moment, technological prowess is yielding to more ancient and more time- tested techniques…Horowitz celebrates such rediscoveries with this very informative guide to foraging…For those ready to learn new foodways from their forebears, Horowitz presents intriguing and detailed instructions and correlative recipes.” — Booklist
“Reading these homesteading, foraging, fishing, and hunting tips and game recipes feels like taking a mountain vacation. Recipes to savor include pickled chanterelle mushrooms and a hunter’s sausage spiked with ground juniper berries.” — Garden & Gun [March 2019 Reading List]
“In this new cookbook, [Will Horowitz] pulls from the experiences of his childhood in upstate New York and offers a guide to foraging and approaching the kitchen as a naturalist in the contemporary world. The techniques in the book…aim to connect readers to a survivalist cooking tradition.” — Epicurious [40 New Cookbooks to Buy This Spring]
“The man best known for creating the smoked watermelon ‘ham’ has distilled all of his knowledge of foraging, preserving, smoking, salting, and more into this 320-page tome…Gorgeous photography and painstakingly detailed illustrations make this a perfect gift for anyone you know who’s looking to get back to the land.” — Grubstreet