BOOKS
4 GREAT READS FOR THE SUNNY SEASON BY COURTNEY LINCOLN At a time when many of us are missing travel and dining at favorite restaurants, Nantucket’s CRU Oyster Bar cookbook offers the taste of a weekend getaway made right at home. CRU is a favorite Nantucket eatery serving local, seasonal dishes created with French and Mediterranean influences, and founders and partners, Erin Zircher, Jane Stoddard, and Carlos Hidalgo, worked with Martha Murphy, award-winning food writer, to create the CRU Oyster Bar Nantucket Cookbook: Savoring Four Seasons of the Good Life. Cooking seasonally is one of the best ways to support local farms and growers, and with the help of CRU’s recipes, you can learn to make your own spring favorites at home, like Nantucket clam chowder, potato salad with capers and soft-cooked eggs, and crispy fried oysters with bibb lettuce and radish rémoulade. For those who can’t make it to the island this spring or summer, may these recipes transport you to a waterfront table complete with champagne, Nantucket oysters, and loved ones.
BRAIDING SWEETGRASS
THE FOUR WINDS
GREENWOOD
B Y R O B I N WA L L K I M M E R E R
BY KRISTIN HANNAH
BY MICHAEL CHRISTIE
In a newly released edition of Braiding
In her latest novel, Kristin Hannah,
For readers seeking an absorbing, multi-
Sweetgrass, professor and plant
author of The Nightingale and The Great
generational novel, Greenwood offers a
ecologist, Robin Wall Kimmerer weaves
Alone, tells a deeply emotional, riveting
completely original story structure with
together a series of reflections based on
story about a courageous woman in
well-drawn characters who all share
indigenous wisdom and science that
search of new beginnings after her
ties to the land. Christie masterfully
remind us of the many gifts and lessons
family’s life is uprooted by the Dust Bowl
illustrates the consequences of both
to be garnered from our relationship
of the 1930s.
reliance and destruction of nature in this
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evocative tale.
