The Antarctic Book of Cooking and Cleaning: A Polar Journey

by Wendy Trusler, Carol Devine

Overview

This stunning chronicle of the first civilian Antarctic clean-up project, with contemporary and historic anecdotes and photographs, journal entries, and more than forty delicious recipes, is an intricately woven ode to the last wilderness.

With more than 130 full-color photographs

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062395047
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	05/19/2015
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	35 MB
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About the Author

Wendy Trusler is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, writer, and food stylist. The expedition cook in Antarctica, she is the author and stylist of the forty-two recipes in this book. For more than twenty years she has balanced her work as a cook and artist, cooking and catering, styling food for film and television, and developing her art practice driven by ideas related to ecology, continuity, and regeneration. She lives with her husband, son, and Shackleton the cat in Peterborough, Canada.

Carol Devine is a researcher, writer, activist, and humanitarian professional. She is strategic advisor to the Museum of AIDS that aims to open in 2017 in South Africa. She has also worked for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Rwanda, Southern Sudan, and East Timor and was MSF Canada's Access to Essential Medicines Campaigner, fighting for accessible, effective, and affordable medicines for developing countries. Carol created the Antarctic civilian clean-up expedition on which this book is based. She lives in Toronto.

Editorial Reviews

What a lovely, beautiful, wonderful book. Am immersing myself in it.” — Michael Ondaatje

“[This] account . . . is nourishing in all sorts of ways. Not just for the sumptuous recipes they include - good enough to make one take up litter-picking or penguin counting just to fit them all in - but for the day to day detail of deep-frozen existence.” — Bella Bathurst, for British Airway's High Life magazine

“Sometimes a book is just a book and sometimes a book is an entire experience in itself; it can cross several different senses before even being consumed by the mind. The Antarctic Book of Cooking and Cleaning is one such book.” — Cat Croteau, Women's Adventure magazine

“. . .should be of interest to everyone from armchair travelers, to adventurers, to environmentalists, and to foodies who will want to know how to re-create Antarctic cuisine at home (first, set yourself atop several miles of ice).” — Bob Payne, travel writer, former contributing editor, Condé Nast Traveler

From the Publisher

[This] account . . . is nourishing in all sorts of ways. Not just for the sumptuous recipes they include - good enough to make one take up litter-picking or penguin counting just to fit them all in - but for the day to day detail of deep-frozen existence.

Bella Bathurst

. . .should be of interest to everyone from armchair travelers, to adventurers, to environmentalists, and to foodies who will want to know how to re-create Antarctic cuisine at home (first, set yourself atop several miles of ice).

Bob Payne

What a lovely, beautiful, wonderful book. Am immersing myself in it.

Michael Ondaatje

Sometimes a book is just a book and sometimes a book is an entire experience in itself; it can cross several different senses before even being consumed by the mind. The Antarctic Book of Cooking and Cleaning is one such book.

Cat Croteau