How to Cook a Crocodile: A Memoir with Recipes
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (919 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1935925008 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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She served in Gabon, Central Africa, as a Health and Nutrition Volunteer from 1996-98. . She now teaches English and Creative Nonfiction writing at the University of New Mexico in Taos. She has since written two memoirs about her recent work in Africa: How to Cook a Crocodile, and Patchwork: A Memoir of Mali. Bonnie Lee Black joined the Peace Corps at the age of fifty, after having been a writer/editor and chef/caterer in New York City for many years. Bonnie is the author
In the two years she served in Gabon, Bonnie developed her own healthy recipe for a purposeful life, made in equal measures of good food, safe shelter, meaningful work, and unexpected love. Like M.F.K. Posted to the tiny town of Lastoursville in the thickly rainforested interior of Gabon, Central Africa, Bonnie taught health, nutrition, and cooking, in French, primarily to local African women and children. Casting caution to the wind at the age of fifty, New York caterer and food writer Bonnie Lee Black decided to close her catering business and join the Peace Corps. Fisher's classic, World War II-era book, How to Cook a Wolf, Bonnie's true stories comprise a lively, literary, present-day survival guide.
She has since written two memoirs about her recent work in Africa: How to Cook a Crocodile, and Patchwork: A Memoir of Mali. She served in Gabon, Central Africa, as a Health and Nutrition Volunteer from 1996-98. About the Author Bonnie Lee Black joined the Peace Corps at the age of fifty, after having been a writer/editor and chef/caterer in New York City for many years. She now teaches English and Creative Nonfiction writing at the University of New Mexico in Taos. An honors graduate of Columbia University in New York, Bonnie also holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University in Los Angeles. . Bonnie is the author of the memoir Somewhere Child, published by Viking Press in 1981
Stunningly perceptive and ferociously well written! "A good book should leave you slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it." -- William Styron Having just finished Bonnie Lee Black's "How to Cook a Crocodile," I am pleased to report that I am delightfully exhausted. Ms. Black's deeply affecting memoir of her experience as a Peace Corps volunteer -- teaching nutrition, coo. Awesome! TR A great read. A great adventure. A great education and a great inspiration. Bonnie takes us with her through the heat and humidity, the rain, the mud, the insects and the reptiles and did I say the heat? I kept saying, 'Oh no, I couldn't do that'. And then we learn there is no refrigerator.I also come from the Upper West Side of Manhattan and know th. Wonderful book This is a memoir of a writer's Peace Corps stint in the French-speaking country of Gabon, Africa. Not only did the author move to Africa and learn to speak French at the age of 50, she left the frenzied world of a NYC caterer and found herself in a country with little development but lots of places to find meaning and purpose. She was intent on retur