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Walk, Eat, Repeat

By (author): Lindy Mechefske

A fresh take on the Camino packed with the flavours of northern Spain.

In this deeply personal culinary travelogue, food culture writer Lindy Mechefske invites readers to join her in savouring the richness of the Camino. Returning to the most basic human needs — walking, eating, and sleeping — she rediscovers purpose at a time of change and transition.

Walk, Eat, Repeat recounts Mechefske’s arduous, yet fulfilling, pilgrimage on the Camino from the Pyrenees mountains to the ancient pilgrim city of Santiago de Compostela. Inspired by her late father’s words, “soldier on,” she chronicles the highs and lows of the trail, the kindness of her fellow pilgrims, and the tortas, tartas, and tortillas, and other culinary highlights that she savoured along the way. With each chapter accompanied by a recipe from the region, Mechefske has not simply written a story of walking the Camino, but a tale of relishing the emotional intimacies and the epicurean delights of this ancient pilgrim path.

AUTHOR

Lindy Mechefske

Lindy Mechefske is a freelance writer and food columnist. She is the author of the cookbook A Taste of Wintergreen and blogs about her adventures in the kitchen at lindymechefske.com. She spent her early years in England and has lived in the US and Australia but calls beautiful, historic Kingston, Ontario, her home. Lindy’s love affairs with food and history began when she was three years old, rolling out the pastry for jam tarts in her grandfather’s ancient Yorkshire kitchen.

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Mechefske shares the ups and downs the blisters the pain the hunger and the need for a bus from time to time but ultimately this is a joyful novel that will make you want to book your trip tomorrow
Eat Live Travel Write

The book is much much more than a howto as necessary as those details are It is a slice of life on the Camino the exhilaration and drudgery of walking 25 or 30 kilometres a day on sometimesdifficult paths the joy and occasional dread of meeting other walkers from around the world the sights sounds and smells of the rudimentary dormitory hostels the absolute joy of a glass of wine and delicious meal in a local caf or bar the absolute distress of being offered a cup of instant coffee and slice of toast for breakfast at some albergues the time over 26 days of walking to assess her current life and decide how to improve it
Winnipeg Free Press

Walk Eat Repeat is a delightful read for anyone with a passion for food travel and adventure Lindy Mechefskes evocative writing and delectable recipes make this book a musthave for armchair travelers and culinary enthusiasts alike
Canadian Cookbooks

This entertaining travelogue kept me in step for the entire journey and I now feel as if I too have walked the Camino But even more compelling than Mechefskes portrayals of Spanish landscape and food is her candour describing her successful interior journey as she walks in the present tense contemplating her past and future

We walk therefore we are is a belief Ive long held and one beautifully demonstrated in the captivating prose that teems through Walk Eat Repeat Lindy Mechefske interweaves personal history reflection and the deeper context behind the Camino with extraordinary dexterity Walk Eat Repeat is as meaningful for the armchair traveller as it is for the prospective pilgrim

Slow fast up down in Walk Eat Repeat Lindy Mechefske makes the footbrain connection along with the foodbrain connection linking the process of thinking while walking to the camaraderie and brio of hearty Spanish meals This book is real talk about walking off a lifetime of anxieties and overthinking accidents and apprehensions and then eating like you mean it at the end of the day As Lindy writes its not magic its the Camino

Both a glorious guide to the joys and hardships of the legendary trail and a moving personal memoir Walk Eat Repeat reminds us of the importance of putting one foot in front of the other whether on the trail or in life

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Dimensions:

288 Pages

452gr0.6875in6in * 9in

Published:

May 14, 2024

Publisher:

Goose Lane Editions

ISBN:

9781773103280

Book Subjects:

TRAVEL / Special Interest / Culinary

Language:

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