About this project
Thank you for your help making The Feasts of Tre-mang a reality.
Your donations will go toward:
Completion of the Manuscript, Art and Photography, Ingredients and Testing of Recipes, Editing and Designing, and finally to Publication and Marketing.
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Excerpt from The Feasts of Tre-mang:
Celebrated on the summer solstice, the New Year’s festivities on Tre-mang were colorful, loud, and delicious. At sundown Tre-manners carried lanterns into the streets and ceremoniously burned kitchen chairs. Decorated with bright paper and, occasionally, firecrackers, these chairs were symbolically burdened with the unwanted things of the previous year. After watching the chairs go up in flames, Tre-manners enjoyed a raucous street party over the cinders of things past. Beer and auspicious foods were passed around freely in the crowd. In the deep of the night, the more adventurous men vented a year’s-worth of steam by gathering in nearby woods to have “blind-fights.” These skirmishes in the dark often resulted in injury but never in hard feelings as the participants were careful not to disclose their identities. The next afternoon (the morning being spent coping with hangovers and black-eyes), each Tre-manner household bought or built a brand new chair and, ritually planting their buttocks into it, hoped for comfort and ease in the coming year.
New Year Recipes: Beer-Battered Eggplant Stuffed with Sun-Dried Tomato Pâté Mushroom Duck Tarts Spiced Pomegranate Cider
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Or simply find out more about Tre-mang here: www.Tre-mang.com
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Praise for Eli’s previous work:
“Lyrical, confident prose that should linger with readers.” Publishers Weekly
“Accomplished and enormously powerful.” Philadelphia Inquirer
“F***ing brilliant!” Eli’s mom
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Eli Brown was born in San Francisco, but spent his childhood in the sweltering Imperial Valley swimming in canals, cooking, and writing. He studied painting and sculpture at the University of California Santa Cruz and received his Masters of Fine Arts in Fiction Writing from Mills College. He now lives in Alameda where, in addition to writing, he studies American Sign Language, gardens, and leads workshops on fermentation. His first novel, The Great Days, was published by Boaz Publications and won the Fabri Prize for Literature. Brown’s poetry can be found in The Cortland Review and Homewrecker, an anthology published by Soft Skull Press. His culinary writings can be found at Tuttifoodie.com.
Photo Credit: Adam Shemper
