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David Baker » About
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Select A Page -. I’m a writer, filmmaker and media producer living in the Pacific Northwest. My first novel, Vintage. Was recently published by Touchstone Books. An imprint of Simon & Schuster. I also write about food, wine, science and education in publications ranging from Narrative.ly. I directed the documentary. My next film projects include. With Justin Smith, about the decline of coral reefs around the world and. Three Days of Glory. You can reach me at dave[at]301media[dot]com. Honest apologies so...
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David Baker » Lila & Dobby make clam fritters
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Select A Page -. Lila & Dobby make clam fritters. People express hospitality through food. When someone prepares a meal for a stranger, it’s a form of social grace. It’s what separates us from the animals and thus makes us human. Some might call it a spiritual act. When someone feeds you four times in two days and gently prods you to continue eating until you’re stuffed to the gillsthen the person is something more than merely human. It’s likely that the person is a grandparent. Dobby has seen a lot of c...
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David Baker » An Afternoon on Jenny Creek
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Select A Page -. An Afternoon on Jenny Creek. Filmmaker Darryl Lai and I recently spent the afternoon in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. Along the river bottoms of Jenny Creek with Jack Williams, Trout Unlimited’s. Chief scientist. Jack has fished this stretch since his boys were young. Now they’ve both got graduate degrees, with one of them going into fisheries science like his father, and the other tackling environmental issues with a law degree. We encountered some trespass cattle while we wer...
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David Baker » A tale of American vino
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Select A Page -. A tale of American vino. This past Friday we screened our documentary, American Wine Story. If we take it beyond wine people will the audience find something to pull them into the story? There are lots of cuts ahead, and more test screenings as we prep for festivals and take our shot at distribution, but a major threshold has been crossed: getting it to the point where we can show it to someone outside our crew. Still, with the aerial shots from Slipstream Cinema. My debut novel,. About ...
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David Baker » Fiction
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Select A Page -. A visual storyteller’s guide to active consumption. What to read this summer: recommendations from writers who teach. Zester Daily – Burgundians dig deep to face climate change. Balancing career and calling: insights from three writers. Three books to read in celebration of Véraison. Writing in strange places. My debut novel,. Is available in hardcover and paperback from Touchstone. About it and how to buy it from your favorite bookseller. Back to Burgundy – Three Days of Glory. You know...
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David Baker » Films
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Select A Page -. Back to Burgundy – Three Days of Glory. A visual storyteller’s guide to active consumption. Plunder on the Spanish Main. Eating Poisson Cru in the tropics. An Afternoon on Jenny Creek. Lila & Dobby make clam fritters. A tale of American vino. The Wind Kept: a music video. My debut novel,. Is available in hardcover and paperback from Touchstone. About it and how to buy it from your favorite bookseller. Back to Burgundy – Three Days of Glory. Plunder on the Spanish Main. You know you're in...
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David Baker » Bounty under the sun
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Select A Page -. Bounty under the sun. 8220;The temperature is hovering around 100 degrees right now in Phoenix,” the pilot announced. Then, dryly, “We expect it to climb steadily to two or three hundred by the time we land.”. On a recent visit to the Valley en route to the Prescott Film Festival for a screening of American Wine Story. I stopped for a short stay. As typical, I awoke before the others largely due to the need for caffeine to relieve the withdrawal symptoms. Being a Northwesterner n...I too...
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David Baker » Food and wine
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Select A Page -. Category: Food and wine. Back to Burgundy – Three Days of Glory. Zester Daily – Burgundians dig deep to face climate change. From disaster cassoulet to La Belle Époque. Home for the holidays. Eating Poisson Cru in the tropics. Three books to read in celebration of Véraison. Stewed Rabbits, Guinea Pigs and the Eye of Mordor. My debut novel,. Is available in hardcover and paperback from Touchstone. About it and how to buy it from your favorite bookseller. Plunder on the Spanish Main. You k...
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David Baker » Vintage
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Select A Page -. Hardcover, paperback, digital and audiobook formats now on sale from Simon and Schuster’s Touchstone. Available at Powell’s,. 8220;Positively delightful.”. 8211; Seattle Times. 8220;What fun: a sort of Sam Spade voice, tough as a film noir character, runs delightfully amok in the wine and gourmet worlds in this hilarious and evocative debut.” – Richard Morais. 8211; Library Journal. 8220;An excellent pairing with just about any book club.”. 8211; Portland Tribune. Biting Through the Skin.
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David Baker » The home stretch
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Select A Page -. After four years, seven states, seventy interviews, three name changes and what seems like an endless process, we’re finally nearing the home stretch. Now we’ve got a rough edit of the film and we’re raising some finishing funds. To help us launch the film in 2014. Check out our campaign on Kickstarter, and look for American Wine Story to be screening in the fall and available through digital download. On Friday, January 17th, 2014 at 2:01 am in Films. My debut novel,. Call your councill...
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