How to Cook a Crocodile by Barbara Scott
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. 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. 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. Fisher's classic, World War I-era book, How to Cook a Wolf, Bonnie's true stories comprise a lively, literary, present-day survival guide.
Bonnie Lee Black is the author of the memoir Somewhere Child (Viking Press, 1981), which was instrumental in the creation of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Her second memoir, about her Peace Corps service in Gabon, How to Cook a Crocodile (Peace Corps Writers, 2010), won a Best in the World award from Gourmand Inter-national in March 2012. The manuscript for this Mali book won first place in the memoir-book category in the SouthWest Writers Annual Writing Contest, 2011. Black earned a bachelor of arts degree from Columbia University in New York in 1979 and an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University-Los Angeles in 2007. She was a professional writer and editor in New York City for twenty years and has been an educator in the U.S. and overseas for nearly twenty years. Her essays have appeared in a number of published anthologies and literary journals. She now lives in Taos, New Mexico, and teaches at UNM-Taos. In 2012 she was chosen one of the Remarkable Women of Taos. Visit her website at www.bonnieleeblack.com.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781935925002 |
| ISBN 10 | 1935925008 |
| Title | How to Cook a Crocodile |
| Author | Barbara Scott |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Peace Corps Writers |
| Year published | 2010-10-06 |
| Number of pages | 450 |
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