Deepest Roots - Finding Food and Community on a Pacific Northwest Island

Kathleen Alcal¿b> is the author of a collection of essays, The Desert Remembers My Name: On Family and Writing; three novels, including Treasures in Heaven; and a collection of short stories. She lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington.

List of contents

Preface | Island Living

Introduction | The Clueless Eater

1. What We Have Always Known

2. To Market

3. School Me

4. Growing Our Own

5. Feast or Famine?

6. What We Can Do Together

7. Otaku

Postscript | Last Song

Notes

Acknowledgments

About the author

Kathleen Alcalá is the author of a collection of short stories from Calyx Books, three novels set in Nineteenth Century Mexico from Chronicle Books, and a collection of essays from the University of Arizona Press. Her work has received the Western States Book Award, two Artist Trust Fellowships, and other recognitions. Kathleen teaches creative writing at the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts on Whidbey Island.  She holds degrees from Stanford University, the University of Washington, and the University of New Orleans. Her parents were born in Mexico, and she was born in Compton, California. Bainbridge Island has been her home for the last twenty years.

Product details

• Authors: Kathleen Alcal?, Kathleen Alcala, Kathleen Alcalá, Kathleen Alcalaa
• Assisted by: Joel Sackett (Photographs)
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9780295999388
• ISBN: 978-0-295-99938-8
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Food & drink > International cuisine; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Amerikanische Geschichte, Nationale, regionale und ethnische Küche, USA Westen, Pazifikstaaten, Pacific States, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Biography / Autobiography, COOKING / Regional & Ethnic / American / Western States, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (OR, WA)