As a cookbook with many essays about foods and memories, this is as much a browsing book as a book for recipes. Many of the food ideas count on freshly caught fish or recently killed meat. As someone who doesn't burn off bad food with heavy labor, I look at a recipe for mashed potatoes that assumes four tablespoons of butter EACH PERSON, before adding on anything at the table, and laugh. This is a taste and idea joy, and I bought it after returning the library copy, but I'll be very surprised if I ever make anything from it. But I will croon over it anyway. (BTW, this is one of the few cookbooks I purchased in Kindle format. The photos are not flashy nor do they provide instructions. I decided all I really needed was the language.) ( )