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		<title>Hoosh wins an Andre Simon Food and Drink Book Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2012 Winners of the Andre Simon Food and Drink Book Awards Hoosh has won the Special Commendation from the Andre Simon Memorial Fund, one of four awards given out in 2012 for books on food, wine, and food culture. The Chairman, trustees and assessors of the Andre Simon Book Awards 2012 are pleased to announce [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.andresimon.co.uk/awards_2012.html" target="_blank">2012 Winners of the Andre Simon Food and Drink Book Awards</p>
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<p><em>Hoosh</em> has won the Special Commendation from the Andre Simon Memorial Fund, one of four awards given out in 2012 for books on food, wine, and food culture.</p>
<p>The Chairman, trustees and assessors of the Andre Simon Book Awards 2012 are pleased to announce the following awards.</p>
<p><!--The Chairman and trustees of the <strong>Andre Simon Food and Drink book awards</strong> are delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2009 awards.</p>
<p>Many thanks to all the publishers who entered books and congratulations to all the short listed authors.  <strong>The winners will be announced in the spring 2010</strong>.</p>
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<li>Food: <em>SUD DE FRANCE</em> &#8211; <strong>by Caroline Conran, </strong>published by Prospect Books</li>
<li>Drink: <em>WINE GRAPES</em> &#8211; <strong>by Jancis Robinson, Julia Harding and José Vouillamoz, </strong>published by Penguin</li>
<li>The first John Avery award: <em>POMEROL</em> &#8211; <strong>by Neal Martin, </strong>published by Wine-Journal Publishing</li>
<li>Special Commendation: <em>HOOSH</em> &#8211; <strong>by Jason C Anthony, </strong>published by University of Nebraska Press</li>
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<p><a href="http://www.andresimon.co.uk/awards_2012.html" target="_blank">Go to the Andre Simon Awards site</p>
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		<title>What Passes For Food in Antarctica (Interview)</title>
		<link>http://www.albedoimages.com/blog/2013/02/14/what-passes-for-food-in-antarctica-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 01:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Story on American Public Media/National Public Radio (Phoebe Judge, 2/13/13) Phoebe Judge talks to author Jason C. Anthony about the food that historic explorers such as Sir Ernest Shackleton and Douglas Mawson ate to keep them going during the years of Antarctic exploration. They drew on Native American ways to dry food &#8211; a [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://thestory.org/archive/2013_02_13_the_Story_How_the_Gun_Ban_In_England_was_Passed.mp3/view" target="_blank">The Story</a> on American Public Media/National Public Radio (Phoebe Judge, 2/13/13) <a href="http://www.albedoimages.com/blog/2013/02/14/what-passes-for-food-in-antarctica-interview/8-campbell-sketch-ice-cave/" rel="attachment wp-att-155"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-155" alt="Victor Campbell sketch - ice cave" src="http://www.albedoimages.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/8-Campbell-sketch-ice-cave-150x150.jpg" width="266" height="223" /></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Phoebe Judge talks to author Jason C. Anthony about the food that historic explorers such as Sir Ernest Shackleton and Douglas Mawson ate to keep them going during the years of Antarctic exploration. They drew on Native American ways to dry food &#8211; a kind of ancestor to the Cliff Bar. Chocolate was and is still a crucial item.</p>
<p> <a href="http://thestory.org/archive/2013_02_13_the_Story_How_the_Gun_Ban_In_England_was_Passed.mp3/view" target="_blank">Listen to the interview</a></p></blockquote>
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		<title>From the Gut (Interview)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 23:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Antarctic Sun (Peter Rejcek, 12/14/12) The most challenging part of writing the book was doing the research on a shoestring. I couldn’t afford to go to the UK to cavort in the holdings of the Scott Polar Research Institute, nor could I endlessly expand my personal Antarctic library. Luckily, I had photocopied tons of stuff years [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2781" target="_blank">Antarctic Sun</a> (Peter Rejcek, 12/14/12)<a href="javascript:newWindow('images4/hoosh-fordranges.jpg', 'sunImages', 640, 437, 'yes');"><img class="alignright" src="http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images4/hoosh-fordranges.jpg" alt="Person sits on snowmobile in snowy place." width="380" height="222" border="0" /></a></p>
<blockquote><p>The most challenging part of writing the book was doing the research on a shoestring. I couldn’t afford to go to the UK to cavort in the holdings of the Scott Polar Research Institute, nor could I endlessly expand my personal Antarctic library. Luckily, I had photocopied tons of stuff years earlier when I was living in Christchurch with Nicholas Johnson (a good friend and sadly, sorely missed) and researching heavily in the various excellent Antarctic libraries there. But the secret to writing <em>Hoosh</em> from my desk here in Maine was the magic of the interlibrary loan. The whole world is available through your local library; all you have to do is ask, and wait.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2781" target="_blank">Read the entire interview</a></p>
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		<title>Hoosh shortlisted for the 2012 Andre Simon Food and Drink Book Awards</title>
		<link>http://www.albedoimages.com/blog/2013/01/02/hoosh-shortlisted-for-the-2012-andre-simon-food-and-drink-book-awards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2012 Food and Drink Book Awards shortlist (Andre Simon Memorial Fund) There are so many fantastic food and wine books published each year that it is a real pleasure for all the trustees to reward the months and years of hard work by the authors, and the creativity and care lavished on them by the publishers [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.andresimon.co.uk/awards_2012.html" target="_blank">2012 Food and Drink Book Awards shortlist</a> (Andre Simon Memorial Fund)<img src="http://www.andresimon.co.uk/images/andre_simon_image.jpg" alt="Andre Simon image" align="right" /></p>
<blockquote><p>There are so many fantastic food and wine books published each year that it is a real pleasure for all the trustees to reward the months and years of hard work by the authors, and the creativity and care lavished on them by the publishers with these awards. They are in the spirit of André Simon who did so much to encourage the enjoyment of food and wine.</p>
<p>&#8230;We are not looking just for &#8216;Cookery Book of the Year&#8217; or &#8216;Food Book of the Year&#8217; or &#8216;Wine Book of the Year&#8217;. So we consider in books of recipes, biographies, guides, polemical works, reference books. The list of past winners is testimony to the breadth of work that has been recognised by this award.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.andresimon.co.uk/about.html" target="_blank">Read the entire description</a></p>
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		<title>Death of Antarctic writer Nicholas Johnson</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 06:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nicholas Johnson, author of Big Dead Place and a close friend, took his life on November 28, 2012. Nick&#8217;s death is a heartbreaking loss to his family, to his friends, and to so many of us that knew him as an essential part of the Antarctic community. He had a voice and a spirit unlike [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_136" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 209px"><a href="http://www.albedoimages.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/nicholas2-2.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-136" title="Nicholas Johnson" src="http://www.albedoimages.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/nicholas2-2-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="199" height="207" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Nicholas Johnson</p></div>
<blockquote><p>Nicholas Johnson, author of <em>Big Dead Place </em>and a close friend, took his life on November 28, 2012. Nick&#8217;s death is a heartbreaking loss to his family, to his friends, and to so many of us that knew him as an essential part of the Antarctic community. He had a voice and a spirit unlike any I&#8217;ve known, equally cynical and generous, funny and soulful. I loved him and I miss him.</p>
<p>No one has done more to change the way we understand Antarctica. Nick was unflinching in his critique of bureaucracy and authority in the United States Antarctic Program, but mainly he sought to create a dialogue within and about Antarctica that cut through cliche and hypocrisy in order to describe things as they really are, in all their glory and strangeness. Not all his readers realize that Big Dead Place (both the book and the website), which can be both brutally honest and explicit, is first and foremost an expression of Nick&#8217;s love of Antarctica and of the people in the USAP. He loved the place so much that he wanted to make it better. And he did. There is nothing like Nick or his writing in all of Antarctic literature or history. Not many people can say they upended a continent&#8217;s literature.</p>
<p>I knew Nick very well. We were happy roommates for two seasons on the ice, and we rented a flat together in Christchurch, New Zealand, for several months while for 15 hours a day we both wrote and researched in Christchurch&#8217;s Antarctic libraries. There was hardly an hour in all that time together that we weren&#8217;t talking about Antarctica, past or present. Rozo, Byrd, Shackleton flowed seamlessly through our conversations about galley food or South Pole politics. No one will ever understand my Antarctic writing &#8211; my whole Antarctic obsession, really &#8211; better than Nick. And I watched in amazement during those Christchurch months while he transformed himself from a writer of zines and broadsides into a master of narrative nonfiction.</p>
<p>Nicholas was his usual kind and generous self up to the very end. He and I were corresponding until just a few days before his death about this blog, of which he is the architect, and about <em>Hoosh;</em> I took his silence in the final days to mean he was busy with other projects. He seemed upbeat. I wish I had realized that he was so overwhelmed by the pain of living that he was making his final plans. Like every one of his many friends scattered around the world, I would have dropped everything to save Nick. But I had no idea he would do this.</p>
<p>I won&#8217;t talk here of what might have driven Nick to take his life. His stints as a contractor in Iraq and Afghanistan probably darkened his thoughts, and certainly he was disappointed about being blackballed from his beloved USAP, but I assume his suicide has deeper roots than that. Whatever his rationale, he was wrong. Life without Nick in it is so much poorer, so much emptier, and I can&#8217;t help but think that his demons could have been driven out if he&#8217;d shared them with the right people. But he was as guarded about his inner life as he was fair and generous in his personal life.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re reading this without knowing Nick&#8217;s work, go and read <em>Big Dead Place</em> and explore <a href="http://www.bigdeadplace.com/">www.bigdeadplace.com</a>. If you don&#8217;t know American Antarctica, it will be strange going at first. It might help to be familiar with Hunter S. Thompson&#8217;s writings on American culture and politics, but Nicholas Johnson was a better writer, I think. And if you really want to understand, go wash dishes in McMurdo or operate heavy equipment at the Pole and fall in love with the place, the people, and the absurdity of life in a big dead place. At some point, you&#8217;ll think the same thing I will for the rest of my life: <em>Hey, I really wish I could talk to Nick right now</em>.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Antarctic Eats (New York Times Book Review)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Antarctic Eats (Rebecca P. Sinkler/New York Times Book Review) And then there was the hunger, the persistent, maddening, gut-cramping hunger. You thought, dreamed and talked of little but food. Forget that other primal urge. The closest you got to sex was eyeballing the woman on the Land O’Lakes butter box. You would have slaughtered your [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="Hoosh review in NYT Book Review" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/books/review/hoosh-by-jason-c-anthony.html" target="_blank">Antarctic Eats </a>(Rebecca P. Sinkler/New York Times Book Review)</p>
<blockquote><p><img class="alignright" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/12/02/books/review/1202-Sinkler/1202-Sinkler-articleInline.jpg" alt="" width="190" height="197" />And then there was the hunger, the persistent, maddening, gut-cramping hunger. You thought, dreamed and talked of little but food. Forget that other primal urge. The closest you got to sex was eyeballing the woman on the Land O’Lakes butter box. You would have slaughtered your favorite dog and gladly eaten it. And you would have happily devoured hoosh — a mix of dried meat, ground biscuits and whatever else was on hand, usually watered down into a revolting stew. As Jason C. Anthony puts it in the prologue to “Hoosh,” “cold, isolation and a lack of worldly alternatives have conspired to make Antarctica’s captive inhabitants desperate for generally lousy food.”</p>
<p>&#8230;Anthony is a fine, visceral writer and a witty observer. He paints his cast of questers with a Monty-Pythonesque brush, but balances the telling with a refusal to sneer or giggle. He demonstrates genuine respect, compassion and a kind of hopeless love for his quixotic subjects and their grandiose, miserable hungers.</p>
<p><a title="Hoosh review in the NYT Book Review" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/books/review/hoosh-by-jason-c-anthony.html" target="_blank">Read the entire review</a></p></blockquote>
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		<title>Douglas Mawson, Hunger Artist (Hoosh excerpt)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Douglas Mawson, Hunger Artist&#8221; from The Smart Set  Like the inhabitants of other former frontiers, we Antarcticans like to think that the successes, the failures, the noble or ignoble exploits of our pioneers become essential narratives for those of us who have settled in their footprints. And as I found opportunities to leave the industrial-park [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Douglas Mawson, Hunger Artist&#8221; from <a title="Hoosh excerpt in The Smart Set" href="http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article11291201.aspx" target="_blank">The Smart Set</a> </p>
<blockquote><p><em>Like the inhabitants of other former frontiers, we Antarcticans like to think that the successes, the failures, the noble or ignoble exploits of our pioneers become essential narratives for those of us who have settled in their footprints. And as I found opportunities to leave the industrial-park confines of McMurdo Station for more remote parts of the ice — camping at -25 degrees Fahrenheit on the East Antarctic ice cap, say — and then sensed the same human insignificance and fragility they experienced amid the vast Antarctic austerity, their storied past provided a literary and historic language by which to understand my experience.</em> <a href="http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article11291201.aspx"><img class="alignright" src="http://www.thesmartset.com/files/newfeature/JO_ANTHO_HUNGE_FT_001.jpg" alt="" width="180" height="212" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>And then I read the saga of Douglas Mawson, and realized all was vanity. Mawson was an Australian explorer who knew more about Antarctic suffering than most, despite that he was more scientist than adventurer. He scoffed at the fame that came with Poles, and while nationalist enough to claim a wide swath of the continent for Australia, he came to the ice seeking facts. “The polar regions,” he wrote, “may be said to be paved with facts… As surely as there is here a vast mass of land with potentialities, strictly limited at present, so surely will it be cemented some day within the universal plinth of things.” </p>
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<p>Antarctica, as it turned out, was more emptiness than facts. And a particularly empty emptiness, in the form of a deep crevasse, awaited Mawson and his comrades. After the saga that followed, from which a ruined Mawson would emerge as the sole survivor, he noted that, in the midst of his deprivation, “cocoa was almost intoxicating and even plain beef suet, such as we had in fragments in our hoosh mixture, had acquired a sweet and aromatic taste scarcely to be described… as different as chalk is from the richest chocolate cream.” Are we Mawson’s descendants or his antithesis? Either way, our lunchtime banter is trapped within an inescapable vanity: We take pride in occupying this rare and hallowed ground, but we do it by reveling in a cozy existence on a continent that could sponsor raptures over the benefits of starvation.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article11291201.aspx" target="_blank">Read the entire excerpt</a></p>
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		<title>A new book about Antarctic cuisine satisfies foodies and historians alike (Review)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new book about Antarctic cuisine satisfies foodies and historians alike (Jeff Inglis/Portland Phoenix)  As you nurse your post-Thanksgiving food coma back to normality, spare a thought for the men and women in Antarctica this holiday season. They&#8217;re warm, well-fed, and happy (if really far from family) — but it wasn&#8217;t always this way. Maine [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="Hoosh review in Maine's Portland Phoenix newspaper" href="http://portland.thephoenix.com/arts/148275-new-book-about-antarctic-cuisine-satisfies-foodi/" target="_blank">A new book about Antarctic cuisine satisfies foodies and historians alike </a>(Jeff Inglis/Portland Phoenix) <img class="alignright" title="books_hoosh_jasononice" src="http://cache.thephoenix.com/secure/uploadedImages/The_Phoenix/Arts/Books/books_hoosh_jasononice.jpg" alt="books_hoosh_jasononice" border="0" /></p>
<blockquote><p><em>As you nurse your post-Thanksgiving food coma back to normality, spare a thought for the men and women in Antarctica this holiday season. They&#8217;re warm, well-fed, and happy (if really far from family) — but it wasn&#8217;t always this way.</em></p>
<p>Maine author Jason Anthony explains in <em>Hoosh</em> (named for a half-fat, half-meat staple of Heroic Age expeditions) that &#8220;Antarctic culinary history is a mere century of stories of isolated, insulated people eating either prepackaged expedition food or butchered sealife.&#8221; He describes &#8220;Antarctica&#8217;s sad state of culinary affairs&#8221; as a set of circumstances where &#8220;Cold, isolation, and a lack of worldly alternatives have conspired to make Antarctica&#8217;s captive inhabitants desperate for generally lousy food.&#8221;</p>
<p>That wry sense of humor pervades the book, based in part on his eight summers in Antarctica. It begins with the mystical appearance of several loaves of fresh sourdough bread (a delicacy, I can attest from my own time on the Ice, that is of incalculable value) as Anthony prepares for a deep field expedition, with him and one other person (as it happened, a direct descendant of an early Antarctic expeditioner) slated to spend 90 to 100 days alone on a glacier, clearing and maintaining an emergency landing strip in case of bad weather at the main US base, McMurdo Station.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://portland.thephoenix.com/arts/148275-new-book-about-antarctic-cuisine-satisfies-foodi/" target="_blank">Read the entire review</a></p>
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		<title>Exploring the cuisine of the deep South (Interview)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2012 00:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Soup to Nuts: Exploring the cuisine of the deep South&#8221; (Portland Press Herald/Meredith Goad) BRISTOL &#8211; Jason Anthony does not consider himself a foodie &#8212; you know, the kind of person who by definition loves good food, can identify every last ingredient in a dish and where it came from, and would try just about [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.albedoimages.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/portland-press-herald_36881082.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-24" title="portland-press-herald_3688108" src="http://www.albedoimages.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/portland-press-herald_36881082.jpg" alt="Jason Anthony / Portland Press Herald" width="299" height="199" /></a><a title="Soup to Nuts / Portland Press Herald" href="http://www.pressherald.com/life/foodanddining/deep-south_2012-10-17.html" target="_blank"><strong>&#8220;Soup to Nuts: Exploring the cuisine of the deep South&#8221;</strong></a> <em>(Portland Press Herald/Meredith Goad)<br />
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<blockquote><p><em>BRISTOL &#8211; Jason Anthony does not consider himself a foodie &#8212; you know, the kind of person who by definition loves good food, can identify every last ingredient in a dish and where it came from, and would try just about anything in the name of gastronomic braggadocio.</em></p>
<p>And yet, there is one thing he knows for sure.</p>
<p>&#8220;I would eat a penguin,&#8221; Anthony answered, without missing a beat, when I asked him if he would ever like to try some of the food the early Antarctic explorers had to eat to survive.</p></blockquote>
<p><a title="Soup to Nuts: Exploring the cuisine of the deep South / Portland Press Herald" href="http://www.pressherald.com/life/foodanddining/deep-south_2012-10-17.html" target="_blank">Read the entire interview</a></p>
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		<title>Hoosh Blurbs and Reviews</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2012 00:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My narrative and culinary history of Antarctica, Hoosh: Roast Penguin, Scurvy Day, and Other Stories of Antarctic Cuisine, was published November 1st, 2012, by the University of Nebraska Press. New reviews will be added as they appear.   “Historical writing, well presented, is supposed to be delicious, but in this brilliant, insightful book you will [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style="text-align: justify;">My narrative and culinary history of Antarctica, <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0803226667/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0803226667&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=albeimag-20%22%3EHoosh" target="blank">Hoosh: Roast Penguin, Scurvy Day, and Other Stories of Antarctic Cuisine</a></span>, was published November 1st, 2012, by the <a href="http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Hoosh,675267.aspx" target="_blank">University of Nebraska Press</a>. New reviews will be added as they appear.</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">“Historical writing, well presented, is <span style="font-style: italic;">supposed</span> to be delicious, but in this brilliant, insightful book you will find many essential nutrients that tend to be missing from standard treatments of Antarctic exploration. This is a delightfully balanced reflection on human involvement in the Last Place on Earth, from earliest times to the modern day, presented with much gusto and the added sauce of first-hand experience.”<br />
- <strong>Ross MacPhee</strong> (curator, American Museum of Natural History, and author of <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Race-End-Amundsen-Scott-Attainment/dp/1402770294" target="blank">Race to The End: Amundsen, Scott, and the Attainment of the South Pole</a></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"> “Some years ago a friend who worked on a nature programme told me a tale of desperate penguin-killing (concluding with an ice pick) that left me with a fascination of how to feed yourself in the Antarctic. Jason Anthony’s book has rekindled my appetite for Antarctic gastronomic thoughts.”<br />
- <strong>Fergus Henderson</strong>, Chef and Co-Owner of St. JOHN, London, and author of <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Whole-Beast-Nose-Tail-Eating/dp/0060585366/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1349043058&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=fergus+henderson" target="blank">The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating</a></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"> “I went to sleep thinking of Antarctica, and eagerly anticipated returning to the ice over my morning coffee. Anthony is an exemplary translator, imparting a collection of otherworldly experiences to the rest of us in precise and deft, but no less astonishing, language and narrative technique. The concluding recipes, like so much of the book, carefully fuse the hilarious and the harrowing. In Hoosh, Anthony makes legends human and humans legendary, and stresses that the mundane, if airlifted to the ends of the world, is nothing short of heroic.”<br />
- <strong>Matthew Frank</strong>, author of <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Barolo-Table-Matthew-Gavin-Frank/dp/0803240066/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1349043266&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=barolo" target="blank">Barolo</a></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"> “Anthony enlivens historical facts with a knack for choice anecdotes… A singular, engrossing take on a region that until now has been mostly documented from a scientific angle or romanticized by adventurers.”<br />
- <strong>Kirkus Reviews</strong></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"> “A complete culinary collection… will need this book on its shelves, but don’t expect a lot of call for its recipes.”</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">- <strong>Booklist</strong></div>
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