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3/2 – Poem-A-Day: The Essential Guide
3/3 – Writing Mindfulness
3/4 – The Nature Fix – Nature Writing and Well-being
What Harvey is saying is that as the diversity of the natural landscape on schoolyards increases, there’s an increase in children’s appreciation of experiences in the natural world. These changes in environmental attitudes provide the affective basis for stewardship behavior–for acting in ways that improve the quality of the environment.
David Sobel, from Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms & Communities
The feedback Troy provides is like headwind. The teaching, support, and encouragement he offers is outstanding. He has an enormous knowledge of nature writing craft. In assisting me with a lyrical essay, he not only helped to define and articulate what I was laboring to create, but he helped me discover resources I never could have found on my own, and he prescribed enlightening exercises to support me in moving my essay forward. Troy also includes plenty of livening praise and validating encouragement. He understands that this is as essential to the learning process as craft knowledge.
Tricia D. Wagner, Author of Where Fish Can Breathe
If zealously seeking the cross cultural roots of mole’ in the back jungles of Mexican Oaxaca was the essence of Rene Redzepi’s first stage of his road-tripping quest for culinary reinvention, then the next few chapters Gordinier dedicates to answering the question ‘how will the Noma chef apply this newfound insight to his own restaurant in his own hometown of Copenhagen Denmark?’
The enigmatic Mexican sauce ‘mole’ becomes a symbol not only for the first chapter of culinary adventure in Hungry, but for the entire quest that Rene Redzepi had placed himself on years before.
Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking it all with the Greatest Chef in the World by Jeff Gordinie, Tim Duggan Books, 2019. Part 1 of 4. To create a culinary biography that not only informs readers of the chef being profiled, but becomes something of an adventurous page-turner is quite a feat, but that is exactly […]
And then, thinking of those bodies of water, I go mind roaming. I could name a hundred events, hours, creatures, that have filled me with delight, and fructifying praise. Experience! experience!
