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Nelson, Richard. The Island Within (New York: Vintage, 1991). “The Gifts of the Deer” is one of the great accounts of hunting.

Ortega y Gasset, José. Meditations on Hunting. Trans. Howard B. Westcott (New York: Scribner’s, 1972). A remarkable book, brilliant and more than a little mad. My own meditations on hunting owe a large debt to Ortega’s.

Shepard, Paul. Coming Home to the Pleistocene (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1998).

———. Nature and Madness (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1998). Writing in the tradition of Ortega, Shepard’s work offers a bracing reevaluation of Paleolithic culture and psychology.

———. The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1998).

CHAPTER 19: GATHERING: THE FUNGI

My education in the mysteries of the fungal kingdom profited from time spent in the field with Ignacio Chapela and David Arora, as well as with mushroom hunters Anthony Tassinello, Bob Baily, Sue Moore, and Angelo Garro. The following books and articles were also valuable:

Arora, David. Mushrooms Demystified (Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1986).

Hudler, George W. Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).

Krieger, Louis C. C. The Mushroom Handbook (New York: Dover Publications, 1967).

Lincoff, Gary H. National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003).

McKenna, Terence. Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge (New York: Bantam, 1993).

Rommelmann, Nancy. “The Great Alaskan Morel Rush of ’05,” Los Angeles Times Magazine, July 10, 2005.

Schaechter, Elio. In the Company of Mushrooms: A Biologist’s Tale (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998).

Stamets, Paul. Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms (Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2000).

———. Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World (Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2005).

Treisman, Ann. “Features and Objects in Visual Processing,” Scientific American 254, no. 11 (November 1986), 114–25. Treisman, a research psychologist, developed the concept of the “pop-out effect” in human visual processing.

Weil, Andrew. The Marriage of the Sun and Moon: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Consciousness (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004). See chapters 7 to 9; the quotes come from chapter 8.

CHAPTER 20: THE PERFECT MEAL

Brillat-Savarin, Jean-Anthelme. The Physiology of Taste. Trans. Anne Drayton (London: Penguin, 1994).

Leader, Daniel, and Judith Blahnik. Bread Alone: Bold Fresh Loaves from Your Own Hands (New York: Morrow, 1993). See chapter 13 on gathering wild yeast for the chef and baking a levain. I also learned about baking with wild yeasts from Robbie Barnett.

McGee, Harold. On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen (New York: Charles Scribner, 2004).

Waters, Alice. The Chez Panisse Café Cookbook (New York: Morrow, 1999). The recipe for the galette dough is on page 227.

INDEX

abalone, gathering

Ableman, Michael

Adams, Bud

Adams, John

ADM (Archer Daniels Midland)

Agricultural Testament, An (Howard)

agriculture:

alternative

corporate functions in

department, see Department of Agriculture, U.S.

and evolution

exports

food chain modified by

government policies in

hunting-gathering vs.

individual farms in see also farming

industrialization of, see industrial food chain

natural world reshaped by

need for

perverse economics of

premodern systems of

solar energy in

surpluses in

yields in

Alar scare

alcohol, corn as source of

Alcoholic Republic, The (Rorabaugh)

algae

alpha linolenic acid (ALA)

amanita

AMC (argument from marginal cases)

American paradox

amino acids

ammonium nitrate

Animal Liberation (Singer)

animal rights:

and animal happiness

and animal suffering

arguments with

ignorance of nature in

increasing activism in

and individual vs. species

and laboratory testing

and marginal cases

and predation

vs. speciesist viewpoint

and vegetarianism

animals:

birds working with

in CAFOs