The Roast Penguin Chronicles: Hoosh, Scurvy Days, Sleeping with Vegetables, and Other Adventures in Antarctic Cuisine - Hardcover

Anthony, Jason C

Hardcover

ISBN 13: 9798991456340

Verlag: Compass Rose Publishing LLC, 2025

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Anthony's Roast Penguin Chronicles is a savory, eclectic stew, unlike anything ever written about Antarctica. With echoes of Anthony Bourdain and characters painted with a Monty Pythonesque brush, it explores the author's adventures over eight seasons living and working there.

Part adventure tale, part cookbook, and part engrossing history of doomed expeditions and food-fueled endurance, it is strikingly original and vividly entertaining.

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.

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Jason C. Anthony is the author of the Field Guide to the Anthropocene, a weekly Substack essay and newsletter exploring the transformed Earth. Among his awards, he was the 2014 Literary Fellow for Maine and a 2015 Macdowell Fellow. His essays have appeared in Orion, VQR, The Missouri Review, and in the Best American Travel Writing 2007. He lives and writes in Maine, "that state of grace wedged between the U.S. and Canada."

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• Verlag: Compass Rose Publishing LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798991456340
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 396
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