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JMW: Yeah, I can see where that would be really, really cool. To have another food blogger make food out of my book, as a debut, was amazing.

What’s really exciting though, and this just happened, is a food blogger at Fiction-Food just made apple cakes with blackberry sauce on top, which was so cool.

Their gardens are part of what feeds them, but they also have some farming tiers, and they have towers that produce honey. But also the grains and small fruits, and things that they could grow at high altitude in very limited soil, and often in pots. So when I wrote Updraft, I had to be very careful to only use the food that was available to them, which is mainly birds. What’s the connection between food and the city of living bone described in your first novel, Updraft ?įran Wilde: Sure, really good question, and it’s funny because as a food blogger I didn’t expect to be writing a book about a scarcity society, but that’s exactly what I did. Your podcast, “ Cooking the Books“, has been exploring the connection between fiction and food for four years now. With me today is author, podcaster, and debut novelist, Fran Wilde.

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