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The Chesapeake Table: Your Guide to Eating Local

Available at these local booksellers – if they are out, please ask them to restock!

The Ivy Bookshop – Baltimore
Busboys and Poets – Hyattsville
My Dead Aunt’s Books – Hyattsville
Glen’s Garden Market – Washington, DC
Politics and Prose Bookstore Connecticut Avenue and Union Market locations – Washington, DC (signed copies!)
Curious Iguana – Frederick (signed copies!)
National Building Museum Shop – Washington, DC
Over the Moon Bookstore – Crozet, VA
UVA Bookstore – Charlottesville, VA

Also available online (paperback or e-book) from Johns Hopkins University Press and Amazon.com

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Renee’s Bio

Renee Brooks Catacalos has been involved in local food and sustainable agriculture since the early 2000s.

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Purchase now at these online sites: AppleBooks; Chirp; GooglePlay; Kobo; SCRIBDLinks to Audible, Amazon and Authors-Direct will be added as they become available. On the Record with Sheila Kast, WYPR Radio, November 21, 2018 – Serving Up “The Chesapeake Table” Locals Only from ChesBayMagNov18 – Locals Only: Renee Brooks Catacalos’ Chesapeake Table Shows the Benefits… Continue reading News

Renee's Regional Reads

Shelf of books

Beyond Jefferson’s Vines: The Evolution of Quality Wine in Virginia by Richard G. LeahyLeahy explores the roots and growth of the Virginia wine industry, along with an insider’s tour of Virginia’s distinct wine regions. Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay by Willam W. Warner. Introduction by John Barth.This classic book tells the story… Continue reading Renee's Regional Reads

After many years of walking the walk and sharing her passion for local and sustainable food practices in various outlets, Renee Catacalos brings all of this knowledge together in one beautiful package. The Chesapeake Table is a must-have resource, complete with delicious recipes, showing how eating locally and sustainably is possible.

Carla Hall, Co-Host “THE CHEW”

“Renee Catacalos has long been a champion of the edible resources and character of the Chesapeake watershed. Her book beautifully ties cultural, historical, and natural resources into a poetic volume that ennobles the people of the greater Chesapeake, giving an appreciation for the sustainable and local in one of America’s most ancient and proud foodscapes.”

Michael Twitty, author of The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South