How to Cook a Moose
{{short description|2015 cookbook by Kate Christensen}}
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| name = How to Cook a Moose: A Culinary Memoir
| image = How to Cook a Moose A Culinary Memoir.jpg
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| author = Kate Christensen
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| country = USA
| language = English
| published = 2015 (Islandport Press)
| media_type = Print (Hardback)
| pages = 292
| isbn = 9781939017734
| oclc = 902660077
}}
How to Cook a Moose: A Culinary Memoir is a 2015 autobiographical cookbook by Kate Christensen. It is about Christensen leaving New York and settling in New England.
Reception
The Los Angeles Review of Books, in a review of How to Cook a Moose, compared it to M. F. K. Fisher's book How to Cook a Wolf writing "The shoes Christensen was tasked to fill .. were cavernous. The challenge to carry on Fisher’s legacy, formidable. From the onset, Christensen seemed up to the challenge" and concluded "As a stand-alone, the book serves up heartfelt reflections on the food history of Maine and insights into the ways we build community, meal by meal. .. As a continuation of the social and culinary classic How to Cook a Wolf, it leaves the reader hungry for more."{{cite journal |date=June 15, 2016 |title=Keeping the Wolf At Bay: The Hunger for a Better Food System |author=Simran Sethi |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/keeping-wolf-bay-hunger-better-food-system/ |journal=Los Angeles Review of Books |accessdate=February 8, 2017}} The Chicago Tribune wrote "Fans of Christensen's novels and of her cooking-and-living blog, who have drooled for years over her fairy-tale travel, culinary, and romantic adventures with Brendan, will delight in this raucously, unabashedly ecstatic paean to her adopted home in "the northern corner" of New England, and to her delicious, contented life."{{cite news |last=Maran |first=Meredith |date=September 17, 2015 |title=Review: 'How to Cook a Moose' by Kate Christensen |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-prj-how-to-cook-a-moose-kate-christensen-20150917-story.html |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |accessdate=February 8, 2017}}
The New York Times was critical, writing "Christensen comes across as a shrill arbiter of that notoriously slippery concept, authenticity."{{cite news |last=Abend |first=Lisa |date=December 31, 2015 |title=Sunday Book Review: The Shortlist: Food Memoir |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/books/review/food-memoir.html?_r=0 |newspaper=New York Times |accessdate=February 8, 2017}}
How to Cook a Moose has also been reviewed by the Star Tribune,{{cite news |last=Fabrega |first=Meganne |date=October 3, 2015 |title=Review: 'How to Cook a Moose,' by Kate Christensen |quote=pays homage to the food culture of Maine by a "year rounder" (not to be confused with a native Mainer) who has adopted the state as her own. |url=http://www.startribune.com/review-how-to-cook-a-moose-by-kate-christensen/330412931/ |newspaper=Star Tribune |accessdate=February 8, 2017}} Kirkus Reviews,{{cite web |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/kate-christensen/how-to-cook-a-moose/ |title=How To Cook A Moose |date=June 3, 2015 |quote=A warmly engaging culinary memoir. |website=Kirkus Reviews |publisher=Kirkus Media LLC |accessdate=February 8, 2017}} Library Journal,{{cite web |url=https://catalog.wccls.org/Mobile/BakerAndTaylor/Review?ISBN=9781939017734&UPC=&position=1 |title=How To Cook A Moose: Reviews |quote=An engaging book that uses a love of food and place to frame Christensen's story of a significant move later in life. |website=catalog.wccls.org |accessdate=February 8, 2017}} and Booklist{{cite web |url=https://www.buffalolib.org/vufind/Record/1986244/Reviews#tabnav |title=How to cook a moose : a culinary memoir |quote=Some of these sections are more interesting than others, and Christensen sometimes comes across as a reverse snob. .. But readers partial to this kind of regional travelogue will find it a treat. |website=Buffalo and Erie County Public Library |accessdate=February 8, 2017}}
It won the 2016 Maine Literary Award for Memoir.{{cite web |url=http://mainewriters.org/%202016-mla-brief-interviews-the-winners/ |title=2016 MLA: Brief Interviews the Winners |website=mainewriters.org |publisher=Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance |accessdate=February 8, 2017}}