''How to Cook a Moose: A Culinary Memoir'' is a 2015 autobiographical cookbook by

Kate Christensen Kate Christensen (born August 22, 1962) is an American novelist. She won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her fourth novel, ''The Great Man'', about a painter and the three women in his life. Her tenth and eleventh novels are forthcom ...

. It is about Christensen leaving New York and settling in New England.

Reception

The ''

Los Angeles Review of Books The ''Los Angeles Review of Books'' (''LARB'' is a literary review magazine covering the national and international book scenes. A preview version launched on Tumblr in April 2011, and the official website followed one year later in April 201 ...

'', in a review of ''How to Cook a Moose'', compared it to M. F. K. Fisher's book ''How to Cook a Wolf'' writing "The shoes Christensen was tasked to fill .. were cavernous. The challenge to carry on Fisher’s legacy, formidable. From the onset, Christensen seemed up to the challenge" and concluded "As a stand-alone, the book serves up heartfelt reflections on the food history of Maine and insights into the ways we build community, meal by meal. .. As a continuation of the social and culinary classic ''How to Cook a Wolf'', it leaves the reader hungry for more." The ''

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'' wrote "Fans of Christensen's novels and of her cooking-and-living blog, who have drooled for years over her fairy-tale travel, culinary, and romantic adventures with Brendan, will delight in this raucously, unabashedly ecstatic paean to her adopted home in "the northern corner" of New England, and to her delicious, contented life." ''

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'' was critical, writing "Christensen comes across as a shrill arbiter of that notoriously slippery concept, authenticity." ''How to Cook a Moose'' has also been reviewed by the ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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'' It won the 2016 Maine Literary Award for Memoir.

References

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