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Fieldwork: A Forager’s Memoir by [Regan Iliana]

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From National Book Award–nominee Iliana Regan, a new memoir of her life and heritage as a forager, spanning her ancestry in Eastern Europe, her childhood in rural Indiana, and her new life set in the remote forests of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Fieldwork explores how Regan’s complex gender identity informs her acclaimed work as a chef and her profound experience of the natural world. Not long after Iliana Regan’s celebrated debut, Burn the Place, became the first food-related title in four decades to become a National Book Award nominee in 2019, her career as a Michelin star–winning chef took a sharp turn north. Long based in Chicago, she and her new wife, Anna, decided to create a culinary destination, the Milkweed Inn, located in Michigan’s remote Upper Peninsula, where much of the food served to their guests would be foraged by Regan herself in the surrounding forest and nearby river. Part fresh challenge, part escape, Regan’s move to the forest was also a return to her rural roots, in an effort to deepen the intimate connection to nature and the land that she’d long expressed as a chef, but experienced most intensely growing up. On her family’s farm in rural Indiana, Regan was the beloved youngest in a family with three much older sisters. From a very early age, her relationship with her mother and father was shaped by her childhood identification as a boy. Her father treated her like the son he never had, and together they foraged for mushrooms, berries, herbs, and other wild food in the surrounding countryside—especially her grandfather’s nearby farm, where they also fished in its pond and young Iliana explored the accumulated family treasures stored in its dusty barn. Her father would share stories of his own grandmother, Busia, who’d helped run a family inn while growing up in eastern Europe, from which she imported her own wild legends of her native forests, before settling in Gary, Indiana, and opening Jennie’s Café, a restaurant that fed generations of local steelworkers. He also shared with Iliana a steady supply of sharp knives and—as she got older—guns. Iliana’s mother had family stories as well—not only of her own years marrying young, raising headstrong girls, and cooking at Jennie’s, but also of her father, Wayne, who spent much of his boyhood hunting with the men of his family in the frozen reaches of rural Canada. The stories from this side of Regan’s family are darker, riven with alcoholism and domestic strife too often expressed in the harm, physical and otherwise, perpetrated by men—harm men do to women and families, and harm men do to the entire landscapes they occupy. As Regan explores the ancient landscape of Michigan’s boreal forest, her stories of the land, its creatures, and its dazzling profusion of plant and vegetable life are interspersed with her and Anna’s efforts to make a home and a business of an inn that’s suddenly, as of their first full season there in 2020, empty of guests due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She discovers where the wild blueberry bushes bear tiny fruit, where to gather wood sorrel, and where and when the land’s different mushroom species appear—even as surrounding parcels of land are suddenly and violently decimated by logging crews that obliterate plant life and drive away the area’s birds. Along the way she struggles not only with the threat of COVID, but also with her personal and familial legacies of addiction, violence, fear, and obsession—all while she tries to conceive a child that she and her immune-compromised wife hope to raise in their new home. With Burn the Place, Regan announced herself as a writer whose extravagant, unconventional talents matched her abilities as a lauded chef. In Fieldwork, she digs even deeper to express the meaning and beauty we seek in the landscapes, and stories, that reveal the forces which inform, shape, and nurture our lives.

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"Fieldwork is a stunningly beautiful reflection on finding peace with our family history and the land we inhabit."

-- " Chicago Review of Books"

"An intimate, passionate, and fresh perspective on the natural world and our place within it."

-- "Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"

"Her honesty is captivating, and her writing creates a tangible experience that is remarkable and unforgettable. This is a story many readers will not want to miss."

-- "Library Journal (starred review)"

"Regan lets the reader into her reality, exposing the messiness, beauty, and inescapable connection to the good, the bad, and the ugly that exists in food."

-- "Booklist"

"Regan's lyrical prose evokes the natural world...Readers will be moved."

-- "Publishers Weekly"

"This second memoir [is] as rich as a mushroom ragout."

-- "Los Angeles Times"

"Touching and funny, Fieldwork explores gender identity, farm life, and Regan's fascinating family heritage...This candid feast of a book delighted both our hearts and our stomachs."

-- "Apple Books"

"Chronicles Regan's transition from big-city restaurant life to Michigan's Upper Peninsula...[and] her desire to return to her rural roots, with the arc of that journey interspersed with stories of her extended family--some fraught with alcoholism and domestic strife."

-- "EaterChicago.com" --This text refers to the audioCD edition.

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Iliana Regan is a self-taught chef. She is the founder and owner of the Michelin-starred "new gatherer" restaurant Elizabeth and the Japanese-inspired pub Kitsune, both located in Chicago. Her cuisine highlights her midwestern roots and the pure flavor of the often foraged ingredients of her upbringing. A James Beard Award and Jean Banchet Award nominee, Regan was named one of Food & Wine's Best New Chefs of 2016. --This text refers to the audioCD edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BHHYLTQ8
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Agate Midway (January 24, 2023)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 24, 2023
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1026 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 325 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #721,756 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #171 in Biographies & Memoirs of Chefs
- #439 in Cookbooks, Food & Wine (Kindle Store)
- #708 in Individual Chefs & Restaurants

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Ron Espeseth

Even better than Burn the Place

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 17, 2023

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As someone who read Burn the Place (Regan's first book) and has visited the Milkweed Inn I might be showing a strong bias. But, that bias is well deserved. Iliana has honed her craft since writing BtP. This doesn't surprise me because she always seems to be working to improve everything she does. This book comfortably flows and weaves-in so many aspects of her interesting life. Iliana is refreshingly open and amazing smooth at sharing very personal subjects that reveal important aspects of her story ...it all fits, it's not in there to shock or distract. It's a memoir, we're learning how those elements of her life shaped the chef, wife, sister, daughter and friend we wanted to get to know when we bought the book.

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Debbie

You know you're reading good writing when...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 30, 2023

Regan has a gift for recalling childhood memories and her writing is fabulous, especially those experiences with nature. She also has a knack for recalling the telling of anecdotes by others and writing about them as though she were the witness.

Every so often, I would be reading along and encounter the last sentence of a paragraph that was so profound that I had to reread and savor the whole paragraph again. I miscalculated the number of pages in the book. So when I got to the last page, I had a pity party because I thought I had at least five more to read. You know you're reading good writing when you have to stop and ponder what you've read, reread passages, and grieve the end of a book.

I would love to read her anecdotes after she has had some shamanic journeying experiences, especially in the Upper Peninsula. Hoo Boy! THAT will be some great writing. Lanie, Gurl, you hear me?

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Riley

Great Read. Captivating and unique writing.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 29, 2023

Captivating and unique writing while still remaining personable. Certainly a book you'll find hard to put down.

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Nick G.

Best written memoir I’ve ever read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 2, 2023

2nd book I’ve read from this author, and she just gets better and better. Her storytelling skills are unmatched, and you’ll have a hard time putting this book down. Read her first book, “Burn The Place” as well. Fieldwork is a MASTERPIECE

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Alexandra Domoras

Captivating - MUST READ

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 2, 2023

I was unable put it down until finished! This book pulls the reader into a exploration of senses and emotions that so many can relate to. 10/10 recommend.

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Kristina

Honest, funny and brutally vulnerable

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 4, 2023

A must read, not just for foodies, but for anyone looking to understand the mind of a creative genius.

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Josh MacNeal

Highly Recommend!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 2, 2023

Brilliant book! Even better than the first, "Burn The Place" which is hard to do.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 2, 2023

Great read. If you love the woods, foraging, cooking, and family, it’s food for thought.

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