In Full Moon Feast, Jessica Prentice champions locally grown, humanely raised foods, and traditional cooking methods. Following the thirteen lunar cycles of an agrarian year, Full Moon Feast is a guide to the cycles of time, from mid-winter Hunger Moon to the bounty of the Moon When Salmon Return to Earth in autumn. Each chapter includes recipes that display the richly satisfying flavors of foods tied to the ancient rhythm of the seasons. Many wonderful seasonal recipe suggestions accompany each chapter — such as spring tonic nettle soup in the “Egg Moon” chapter, hibiscus and rose hip soda in the “Wort Moon” chapter, and lacto-fermented peach chutney in the “Snow Moon” chapter.

This is a Board and staff favorite: "Love the recipes and bits on the different moons. We've referenced it in our CSA newsletters before." (Paula Manalo)

"Fascinating writing on the ties between food and seasonal cycles, with unusual recipes at the end of each chapter." (Rebecca Briggs)

Reviews: “Closer to Walden Pond than the Joy of Cooking, Full Moon Feast realizes a fundamental relationship to food, one that weaves history, anthropology, folk life, myth, medicine, a personal journey and, of course, food itself into a whole.” (Deborah Madison, “Foreword”)

“Jessica Prentice’s far-ranging culinary explorations bring us back to the rhythms of seasonal being. Drawing upon mythology, history, and contemporary struggles, Full Moon Feast invites us to make these seasonal rhythms our own.” (Sandor Katz, author of Wild Fermentation)

“Like a memorable meal, Full Moon Feast is convivial, stimulating, comforting, at times piquant, and always deeply satisfying. A feast indeed!” (Joan Dye Gussow, author of This Organic Life)

Author Bio: Jessica Prentice is a professional chef and food activist in the San Francisco Bay area. She is a co-founder of Locavores, a co-creator of the Local Foods Wheel, and one of the founding worker-owners of Three Stone Hearth: A Community Supported Kitchen in West Berkeley.

Author: Jessica Prentice
Paperback: 346 pages
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing (2006)
Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.9 inches