Eating Wildly: Foraging for Life, Love and the Perfect Meal

Ava Chin

Monday, 06 Apr 2015 at 7:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union

Ava Chin, a native New Yorker, is the author of Eating Wildly, a memoir about urban foraging. The book catalogs the variety of edible and medicinal plants she discovers in parks and backyards and includes recipes and culinary information. It's also a story of self-discovery and self-reliance. Chin is an associate professor of creative nonfiction and journalism at CUNY and writes as the "Urban Forager" for the New York Times. She is a former slam poet and is the editor of the nonfiction essay collection Split: Stories From a Generation Raised on Divorce.

Cosponsored By:
  • AgArts
  • CaseyLand Committee - Everett Casey Nature Reserve
  • Creative Writing Program
  • English
  • Graduate Program in Sustainable Ag Colloquium
  • Sustainable Agriculture Student Association
  • Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)

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