A review by britakate
Drinking the Rain by Alix Kates Shulman

I've seen this book a hundred times without realizing that it takes place, in large part, on an island in my very own (adopted) Casco Bay. Shulman has some of the same activist post-mortem feelings that I had after leaving Smith (not that my activism held a candle to hers, or every could), so that aspect of the narrative was compelling. However, what I really loved was the food, whether foraged from the island (chapter two) or toured in Budapest (chapter nine). Hints of Michael Pollan, and Barbara Kingsolver, and all the other foodie types, but years ahead of them.