How to Cook a Moose (45 page)

Thomas Hanna.
Shoutin' into the Fog: Growing Up on Maine's Ragged Edge
(Islandport Press, 2006).

Margaret Hathaway and Karl Schatz.
The Year of the Goat: 40,000 Miles and the Quest for the Perfect Cheese
(Lyons Press, 2009).

Bernd Heinrich.
A Year in the Maine Woods
(Da Capo Press, 1995).

The Home Comfort Range Cook Book
, circa 1900.

Annette Jackson.
My Life in the Maine Woods: A Game Warden's Wife in the Allagash Country
(Islandport Press, 2007).

Sarah Orne Jewett.
The Country of the Pointed Firs
(Dover Thrift Editions, 2011).

Samuel Merrill.
The Moose Book: Facts and Stories from Northern Forests
(E. P. Dutton, 1920).

Helen Nearing and Scott Nearing.
The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living
(Schocken Books, 1990).

Kathy Neustadt.
Clambake: A History and Celebration of an American Tradition
(University of Massachusetts Press, 1992).

Lincoln Paine.
A Maritime History of Maine
(Alfred A. Knopf, 2013).

Michael Pollan.
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
(Penguin, 2006).

Louise Dickinson Rich.
We Took to the Woods
, 2nd ed. (Down East Books, 2007).

Bill Roorbach.
Temple Stream
(Down East Books, 2014).

Terry Silber.
A Small Farm in Maine
(Anchor, 1989).

Andrew Smith, ed.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America
(Oxford University Press, 2004).

Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald.
America's Founding Food: The Story of New England Cooking
(University of North Carolina Press, 2004).

Hank and Jan Taft and Curtis Rindlaub.
A Cruising Guide to the Maine Coast
(Diamond Pass Publishing, 1996).

Pamela Wood.
The Salt Book
(Anchor Press, 1977).

Colin Woodard.
The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier
(Viking, 2004).

Baron Wormser.
The Road Washes Out in Spring: A Poet's Memoir of Living off the Grid
(University Press of New England, 2006).

Acknowledgments

I owe a great debt of thanks to so many people who helped me in the writing of this book:

The Fitzgerald and Arshad families and Charlotte Brown: for welcoming me into the fold, taking such good care of Dingo, and feeding me so many excellent meals.

Our community of writer friends here: This is a famously idyllic place for writers. I've never felt so thoughtfully left alone and, simultaneously, so buoyed by moral support and excellent company.

Everyone mentioned and interviewed in this book: People in this part of the world tend to be private. Thank you all so much for allowing a newcomer from away to write about you, and for trusting me with your amazing stories. I'm inspired by and grateful to you all.

And my editor, friend, and Nordic sister, Genevieve Morgan, who asked me to write the book I most wanted to write at exactly the right time, and shepherded me through it with grace and wisdom, warmth and love: Thank you, thank you.

About the Author

Kate Christensen is the author of, most recently,
Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites
, as well as six previous novels, including
The Epicure's Lament
and
The Great Man
, which won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. She writes about food, drink, life, and books for numerous publications, most recently the
New York Times Book Review
,
Bookforum
,
Cherry Bombe
,
Vogue
,
Food & Wine
, the
Wall Street Journal
, and numerous anthologies. She blogs about food and life in New England at
katechristensen.net
.

Christensen lives in Portland, Maine, and the White Mountains, and is currently at work on a new novel.