Books · Field guides · Sustainability
Farming the Woods
A practical manual for making woodland productive
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Cookbooks, foraging field guides, natural history, food preservation, memoir, and books that improve with stains and notes.
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Books · Sustainability · Home
The Resilient Farm and Homestead
Whole-systems design grounded in twenty years of practice
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View object →Books · Cookbooks · Hunting & Fishing
The MeatEater Fish and Game Cookbook
A broad, practical field-to-table reference
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View object →Books · Outdoor cooking · Live fire
The MeatEater Outdoor Cookbook
A useful playbook for cooking outside
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View object →Books · Cookbooks · Indigenous foodways
Turtle Island
Food traditions told through place, history, and living practice
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View object →Books · Memoir · Restaurant culture
Kitchen Confidential
The restaurant memoir that changed how kitchens were seen
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View object →Books · Essays · Food writing
The Nasty Bits
Food writing with the useful trim left on
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View object →Books · Preservation · Charcuterie
The Art of Making Fermented Sausages
A focused technical manual for controlled meat fermentation
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View object →Books · Preservation · Charcuterie
Charcuterie
The accessible modern gateway to salting, smoking, and curing
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View object →Books · Fermentation · Koji
Koji Alchemy
A practical modern reference for unlocking koji's remarkable range
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View object →Books · Cookbooks · Cajun & Creole
The Encyclopedia of Cajun & Creole Cuisine
A monumental working history of Louisiana cooking
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The Evolution of Cajun & Creole Cuisine
A foundational history-and-recipe record of Louisiana cooking
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View object →Books · Cookbooks · Hunting & Fishing
After the Hunt
Louisiana’s encyclopedic record of wild game and game-fish cookery
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View object →Books · Memoir · Wilderness Skills
The Tracker
A formative memoir of tracking, apprenticeship, and attention
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View object →Books · Field Guides · Tracking
Tom Brown’s Field Guide to Nature Observation and Tracking
A practice-driven guide to seeing what the landscape records
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View object →Books · Field Guides · Children & Family
Tom Brown’s Field Guide to Nature and Survival for Children
A family field guide for safer, more observant time outdoors
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View object →Books · Field Guides · Primitive Skills
Tom Brown’s Field Guide to Living with the Earth
An ambitious manual for adaptation with materials found close at hand
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View object →Books · Field Guides · Marine Natural History
Seaweeds of the World
A richly illustrated map of an extraordinarily diverse marine world
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View object →Books · Cookbooks · Vegetable Cooking
On Vegetables
Vegetable cookery built around season, texture, and close attention
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View object →Books · Cookbooks · Technique & Reference
Jacques Pépin Complete Techniques
A visual foundation in the movements that make cooking work
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View object →Books · Cookbooks · Preservation
Quick & Easy Tsukemono
A compact, visual entry into the breadth of Japanese pickling
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View object →Books · Home · Natural Building
Earthbag Building
A hands-on manual for building durable forms from earth and labor
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View object →Books · Field Guides · Mushrooms
The Complete Mushroom Hunter, Revised
A welcoming bridge between mushroom identification, culture, and the kitchen
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View object →Books · Field Guides · Mushrooms
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms
A dense, portable visual reference for the North American field
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View object →Books · Natural History · Mycology
The Fifth Kingdom
A rigorous and unusually readable introduction to the science of fungi
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View object →Books · Natural History · Applied Mycology
Radical Mycology
An expansive manual for understanding fungi and putting them to work
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View object →Books · Natural History · Mushroom Cultivation
Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms
A detailed production manual for taking mushroom cultivation seriously
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View object →Books · Books by Will · Preservation
Salt Smoke Time
Heritage techniques for a more capable kitchen
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