Countywide Community Read: Survival Foods by Thomas Pecore Weso

Books for this year’s Community Read, Survival Foods by Thomas Pecore Weso, will be available at your local branch starting 2/3. All ages.

Join us as we read Survival Food by Thomas Pecore Weso
In these coming-of-age tales set on the Menominee Indian Reservation of the 1980s and 1990s, Thomas Pecore Weso explores the interrelated nature of meals and memories. As he puts it, “I cannot separate foods from the moments in my life when I first tasted them.” Weso’s stories recall the foods that influenced his youth in northern Wisconsin: subsistence meals from hunted, fished, and gathered sources; the culinary traditions of the German, Polish, and Swedish settler descendants in the area; and the commodity foods distributed by the government—like canned pork, dried beans, and powdered eggs—that made up the bulk of his family’s pantry. His mom called this “survival food.” Source: Publisher  For more information go to:  https://bit.ly/2025WinterCommunityRead