Unpasteurized Inga (Recipes and Reflections on Food, Farming, and Finding Your Way Back)

This is not just a cookbook. It's a reckoning, a return, and a deeply personal map back to oneself through food, land, and chosen family.

Rooted in rural Wisconsin, this book weaves together intimate personal essays, deeply nourishing recipes, and reflections on farming, friendship, healing, and care. Written from the middle of life—after burnout, boundary-setting, and profound personal change—the narrative moves fluidly between the kitchen and the pasture, between grief and joy, solitude and community.

Alongside recipes meant to ground and sustain—slow-braised meats, broths to sip from a mug, simple salads that restore balance—are stories of rebuilding a life from the inside out. The author reflects on family estrangement, sobriety, nervous-system healing, friendship as reparenting, and the quiet power of feeding oneself well. Celebrates the farmers who supply the food, Inga explains how and why she cooks the way she does, and explores her commitment to grass-based agriculture as both philosophy and practice.

This is a book about learning to listen—to your body, to the land, to what truly nourishes. Honest, grounded, and generous, it invites readers into a slower, more intentional way of living, cooking, and caring.