About the Author

Ava Chin is the author of Eating Wildly: Foraging for Life, Love and the Perfect Meal and the former Urban Forager columnist for The New York Times. She has written for the Los Angeles Times, Saveur, The Village Voice, Spin, and others. A former slam poet and activist, she is a professor of creative nonfiction and journalism at CUNY. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter. Follow her at AvaChin.com.

Reviews

"Forget the dude chefs and rockstar butchers. Chin's clear, honest prose forges the link between locavores and immigrant foodways without pretense or pose, sharing heartache and joy--and all the muddied life that roils in between. Like sitting with a good friend at the kitchen table, EATING WILDLY" "is a pleasure that lasts long after you're done."
--Tracie McMillan, bestselling author of The American Way of Eating