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2010
How to Cook a Crocodile: A Memoir with Recipes
by Bonnie Lee Black (Gabon 1996-98)
A Peace Corps Writers Book
$15.99
448 pages
October 2010
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.
Read Thurston Clark’s review of How to Cook A Crocodile
Read John Coyne’s interview with Bonnie — Bonnie Black’s Brilliant Book
Read Bonnie’s blog Cooking Crocodiles and Other Musings
Visit BonnieLeeBlack.com
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