Sep
25
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Lola Milholland
By Mystery to Me
About the Book: Group Living and Other Recipes tells the story of the residents of the Holman House—of transcendent meals and ecstatic parties, of colorful characters coming together in moments of deep tenderness and inevitable irritation, of a shared life that is appealing, humorous, confounding, and, just maybe, utopian—with a wider exploration of group living as a way of life. From spending time at her aunt and uncle's intentional community in Washington State to finding her footing in the kitchen as a student in Japan to mushroom hunting in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, Milholland offers an expansive and vibrant reevaluation of the structures at the very center of our lives.
About the Author: Lola Milholland is a food-business owner and writer. A former editor for
Edible Portland magazine, she currently lives in Portland, Oregon, and runs Umi Organic, a noodle company with a commitment to providing nutritious public school lunch. Milholland grew up in the nineties, the child of iconoclastic hippies. Both her parents threw open the doors of their rambling home in Portland, Oregon, to long-term visitors and unusual guests in need of a place to stay. Years later, after college and
after her parents' separation, Milholland returned home. There, she joined her brother and his housemates—an eccentric group of stop-motion animators and accomplished cooks—in furthering the experiment of communal living into a new generation.
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