what a gorgeous read. jessica prentice covers everything from her childhood obsessions with food, to the pollution our modern-day conveniences are creating in the hunting waters of the inuit, to the ingenious new experimental methods of "resetting" polluted ecosystems by inoculating trash piles with oyster mushrooms (!). she makes the connection between our innate hunger for connection to each other and the earth to another innate hunger for real food and nutrients with such ease, i find myself wondering how was this connection not apparent to me before? her writing has the knack of conveying new connections between age-old ideas with such ease, you feel like you've had that thought, or felt that way before. i cannot recommend this book enough.

I gave this book to my mother for Christmas. She's a bit of a hippy, and likes to be connected to the moon.
She has been reading each chapter along with the moon, and is now having moon themed family dinner parties where she makes a dish that was either in the book or at least has some ingredients from that moon in it.
I'm glad she liked the gift and is getting joy, knowledge and connection from it.

I work in the health food industry, and what with all of the passing dietary fads, eating in a healthy and nourishing fashion had become a daunting, worrisome task. Reading this book brought the joy and spirit and connection of food back into my life, and helped me to figure out my own beliefs about food. I started eating mainly local, seasonal food a year before I read this book, (something that she recommends) but now I add the stories that have been passed down from culture to culture, generation to generation, to my experience of eating and of family meal time, and this has made my relationship with food full of spirit and life~

This is a beautiful book on food, cycles, and traditional cultures (mostly focuses on traditional cultures of the northern hemisphere). There are some good recipes too. I love the way she presents each moon cycle. It really gave me a sense of connection. She talks about modern food issues and nutrition as well. I had lost my original copy and bought another one. That is how much I love it.

Jessica Prentice's book was a joy to read. In fact, it is so readable, I've recommended it as a book club selection to several friends -- after all, we all eat! The way Prentice talks about eating and food, it is like she is an old friend on a passionate adventure.

I have spent years of searching for a way of eating that seems "right" nutritionally (from all-American to vegetarian to vegan to macrobiotic to low-carb to Gittleman!). I have owned books on all of them, and I have lived all of them. None have made as much sense intellectually AND intuitively as what Jessica describes. Her book is organized by thirteen moons, and each moon represents a theme. This organization is one of the things that makes her book so readable - each chapter is a complete exploration of that theme, and then you're off to another theme.

Jessica's work is well-researched, well-written, fascinating, inspiring, and for me, life-changing. I took my hundred-or-so other cookbooks and diet books to the used bookstore, purchased a few others that Prentice recommended in her resources, and my kitchen supply of books is now complete at only a few books rather than the close to 100 that I owned before. I feel THAT sure of this.

This book is for everyone -- interested in nutrition or not. I guarantee you will enjoy it, you will learn things you didn't know about what you eat, and you will be inspired by Prentice's knowledge and passion. And if you are searching for a way of eating that makes sense intellectually AND intuitively (and feels GOOD physically), you will have found a path home.