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Jason Anthony: Hoosh *at Longfellow Books*
11/29/2012 7:00 pm
Hoosh: Roast Penguins, Scurvy Day, and Other Stories of Antarctic Cuisine by Jason Anthony
Thursday, November 29th, 7:00pm at Longfellow Books
Thursday, November 29th, 7:00pm at Longfellow Books
Antarctica, the last place on Earth, is not famous for its cuisine. Yet
it is famous for stories of heroic expeditions in which hunger was the
one spice everyone carried. At the dawn of Antarctic cuisine, cooks
improvised under inconceivable hardships, castaways ate seal blubber and
penguin breasts while fantasizing about illustrious feasts, and men
seeking the South Pole stretched their rations to the breaking point.
Today, Antarctica's kitchens still wait for provisions at the far end of
the planet's longest supply chain. Scientific research stations serve
up cafeteria fare that often offers more sustenance than style. Jason C.
Anthony, a veteran of eight seasons in the U.S. Antarctic Program,
offers a rare workaday look at the importance of food in Antarctic
history and culture.
Anthony's tour of Antarctic cuisine takes us from hoosh (a porridge of meat, fat, and melted snow, often thickened with crushed biscuit) and the scurvy-ridden expeditions of Shackleton and Scott through the twentieth century to his own preplanned three hundred meals (plus snacks) for a two-person camp in the Transantarctic Mountains. The stories in Hoosh are linked by the ingenuity, good humor, and indifference to gruel that make Anthony's tale as entertaining as it is enlightening.
Anthony's tour of Antarctic cuisine takes us from hoosh (a porridge of meat, fat, and melted snow, often thickened with crushed biscuit) and the scurvy-ridden expeditions of Shackleton and Scott through the twentieth century to his own preplanned three hundred meals (plus snacks) for a two-person camp in the Transantarctic Mountains. The stories in Hoosh are linked by the ingenuity, good humor, and indifference to gruel that make Anthony's tale as entertaining as it is enlightening.
"Anthony enlivens historical facts with a knack for choice anecdotes ... [Hoosh
is] a singular, engrossing take on a region that until now has been
mostly documented from a scientific angle or romanticized by
adventurers." -Kirkus
Follow up your Thanksgiving indulgence with an evening focused on a different kind of roast. Hear author Jason Anthony talk about his time in this exotic land and how the importance of food is the same all over the world.
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