Marie
My blogs
| Occupation | Writer / Gardener / Forager / Cook |
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| Location | Brooklyn, New York |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | I am Marie Viljoen (fill-YOON, for non South Africans) the author of 66 Square Feet. (Read the About page for more about the blog's name.) I was born in Bloemfontein, came of age in Cape Town, and grew up in New York. I cook, garden and forage in Brooklyn where I live with my French husband, Vincent Mounier. <br> To contact me please email myviljoen (at) gmail dot com <br> <br> I write books: 66 Square Feet - A Delicious Life is my first, a 12 chapter (and month) biography of botanical New York and the recipes it inspires. My wild foods cookbook is Forage, Harvest, Feast - A Wild Inspired-Cuisine. Just 510 recipes long... <br> <br> |
| Interests | Books, Botany, Flowers, Food, Foraging, Photography, A Tall Green-eyed Frenchman, Cats, Wine, Water, Picnics, Camping, Planting things, Eating, Writing, Riding Runaway Horses, Laughing like a Hyena |
| Favorite music | Rain on a tin roof. Oh, and silence. Lots of silence. |
| Favorite books | Andrea Wulf, Adam Johnson, Michael Ondaatje, Doris Lessing, Faulkner, Walker Percy, MFK Fisher, Hemingway, Wendell Berry, Peter Mathiessen, William Gibson, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Saramago, Karen Blixen, TE Lawrence, Rumer Godden, Cormac McCarthy, Conrad, Patrick O'Brian, George Eliot, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Marlene van Niekerk, Antjie Krog, Karel Schoeman, Nabokov, Dan Sleigh |