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Iliana Regan is the Michelin-star chef and prior owner of Elizabeth restaurant, which she turned over to her employees in 2020 in order to run the Milkweed Inn bed and breakfast in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and experience a quieter life. In 2019 her debut memoir,Burn the Place, was longlisted for the National Book Award, the first time a food writer was listed since Julia Child won in the year Regan was born, 40 years ago. In addition to working as the chef and owner of Milkweed Inn, she recently earned a Masters of Fine Arts in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Praise for Iliana Regan's FIELDWORK:
“An intimate, passionate, and fresh perspective on the natural
world and our place within it." —Kirkus Reviews, starred
review “Regan’s latest work may very well surpass the critical
success and praise of her debut in 2019. Her honesty is
captivating, and her writing creates a tangible experience that is
remarkable and unforgettable. This is a story many readers will not
want to miss.” —Library Journal, starred review “Poignant. . .
Readers will be moved.” —Publishers Weekly “In this heartfelt
ode to the natural world, Regan lets the reader into her reality,
exposing the messiness, beauty, and inescapable connection to the
good, the bad, and the ugly that exists in food.”
—Booklist “Occasionally, a book appears like a shimmering
treasure stumbled upon during a forest walk. This is certainly the
case with Iliana Regan’s memoir Fieldwork. . . Regan’s
exquisite, carefully planned prose paradoxically feels like a
casual chat. . . With both Burn the
Place and Fieldwork, Regan has earned her place as not
only a world-class chef, but also a gifted memoirist.” —BookPage,
starred review “Regan excels where her love for the outdoors
and her skill as a chef meet. She writes about nature—especially
edible nature—with care and fervor. Her prose comes alive.” —The
Washington Post “[A] delicious memoir. . . . Touching and
funny, Fieldwork explores gender identity, farm life, and Regan’s
fascinating family heritage. Regan’s vibrant prose captures the
unique joy of preparing food that you’ve picked yourself and
contains wonderful descriptions of the mouthwatering dishes she
creates from nettles, wildflowers, pine cones, and other natural
delights. This candid feast of a book delighted both our hearts and
our stomachs.” —Apple Books “A poetic, mystical book.”
—Newcity “Equal parts naturalist, chef, and memoirist, Regan
offers readers a candid account of how she found herself in the
deepest parts of the northern forest, revelations of self appearing
like morels after rain.” —LitHub “Deftly weaving memories from
Regan’s childhood growing up in rural Indiana with observations of
her present as she starts a new life, this memoir is thoughtful and
engrossing for anyone wanting to explore their connection to the
natural world.” —Buzzfeed “If you enjoyed Iliana
Regan’s Burn the Place, you will love her compelling new
memoir in which she explores how ancestry and nature interact to
shape her life, from foraging and her culinary career to her gender
identity and relationships.” —Ms. Magazine “Fieldwork is
a stunningly beautiful reflection on finding peace with our family
history and the land we inhabit.” —The Chicago Review of
Books “After she and her wife, Anna, relocated to Michigan’s
Upper Peninsula, Regan realized she was returning to the foraging
culture of her Eastern European childhood and rural Indiana school
years—but also the roots of her family history and gender identity.
All of which makes this second memoir as rich as a mushroom
ragout.” —The Los Angeles Times "Fieldwork has much lyrical
writing about mushrooms, forests, the wind, honoring the land and
animals. But Regan… is at her best when she writes, with
unflinching, trenchant honesty, about we, humans, with our stew of
strengths, resilience, sadness, joys, addictions, and flaws." —The
Washington Blade “Suffused with a sense of yearning… Fieldwork
moves between the past and the present, with Regan’s tender, almost
magical way with wild food at it’s heart. . . . Read this book for
Chapter 17 alone, a gorgeous set piece in which she gathers
firewood late on a summer night.” —The Minneapolis Star
Tribune “How does Ilana Regan seamlessly connect the aroma of
Cedar trees to a devouring a delicious frozen custard? As a chef
and lifelong forager, her relationship with Mother Nature began in
childhood and extends all the way to her creation: The Milkweed
Inn. In Fieldwork, Regan explores foods in their purest
form and translates them to tasty dishes. She makes me want to go
outside and start eating my own lawn and I could honestly listen to
her talk about trees for years…Her writing is visceral and so
inviting. Her life experience unconventional yet so
relatable. Pick up this book and start reading. You won’t
stop until the last page.” —Alex Guarnaschelli, chef “I
found myself dreaming the entire read that I was walking behind
Iliana through the woods she calls home and through her vivid,
beautifully told recollections of the past. The perfect companion
piece to Burn the Place.” —Scott Mosier, writer, director, and
producer “In fierce, tender
prose, Fieldwork continues and deepens Iliana Regan's
investigations of DNA, family, her body, and all things worth
foraging in the natural world, revealing herself as one of that
world's most lucid defenders.” —James McManus, writer, teacher, and
poker historian “Fieldwork is: you and the irreplaceable
Iliana Regan, using bolt cutters to break into the dark barn of
memory.” —Jesse Ball, prize-winning author of A Cure for
Suicide “Fieldwork is the second book by Iliana Regan and
what a superb follow up it is to her highly acclaimed Burn The
Place. This is not just a book about IIiana’s love of the forest
and the things that reside in this magical place but it’s also an
intimate reflection on what makes her who she is and with that we
can fully relate.” —April Bloomfield, chef
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