Rowan Jacobsen

Rowan Jacobsen is the James Beard Award-winning author of A Geography of Oysters: The Connoisseur’s Guide to Oyster Eating in North America and Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis. He has written for the New York Times, Newsweek, Harper’s, Saveur, The Art of Eating, and others. His newest book, The Living Shore, about our ancient connection to estuaries, and their potential to heal the oceans, has just been published. His next project, American Terroir, will be released in September 2010. He lives in Vermont with his wife and son.

 

Living Shore book cover

"Rowan Jacobsen breathes fresh life into our views of the current vitality of our coasts, bays, and estuaries, as he tells elegant parables of their degradation and subsequent restoration. To simply call this book 'important' would allow some to dismiss it as a polemic, but it is so heartbreakingly beautiful that it deserves to be read by everyone who loves to eat, swim, fish, float, or imagine a healed world." —Gary Nabhan, MacArthur Fellow, founder of Renewing America's Food Traditions Alliance