Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

zucchini larceny 193 onions and peppers. y 2 heaping cups pitted cherries (^3) ⁄ 4 cup sugar (or honey to taste) (^2) ⁄ 3 y (^3) ...

194 animal, vegetable, miracle (^1) ⁄ 4 y (^1) ⁄ 2 (^1) ⁄ 2 (^1) ⁄ 3 cup honey (^1) ⁄ 2 teaspoon baking soda (^1) ⁄ 4 teaspoon s ...

zucchini larceny 195 Stir these into other ingredients, mix well. Drop by spoonful onto greased baking sheet, and flatten with t ...

13 • LIFE IN A RED STATE August I’ve kept a journal for most of the years I’ve been gardening. I’m a habitual scribbler, jotting ...

life in a red state 197 different tomato varieties as they begin to come in: two Green Zebras, four gorgeous Jaune Flammés, one ...

198 animal, vegetable, miracle and three occurred at all. Tomatoes (like children) never achieve the vil- lainous status of squa ...

life in a red state 199 compete with our southern humidity; a low- voltage dryer renders an iden- tical product.) We make sauce ...

200 animal, vegetable, miracle murderous to women’s freedom and sanity. It’s straightforward, and for tomato and fruit products ...

life in a red state 201 Every year I think about buying a pressure canner and learning to use it, so I could can our beans as be ...

202 animal, vegetable, miracle (they’ll knock against each other, sounding like croquet balls), and later withdraw a few at a ti ...

life in a red state 203 trucked out to stores. Now the packing plant occupies the whole barn space, complete with truck bays, co ...

204 animal, vegetable, miracle mitment to new methods will be salvation or disaster. The term “high- value crop” is relative to ...

life in a red state 205 but keep their religion to themselves as they bring a day’s work to this packing house inside a former t ...

206 animal, vegetable, miracle hardware store, no beer joints (the county was dry), and fewer residents than an average Caribbea ...

life in a red state 207 Why should this have been? How did the leafy, sidewalked blocks be- hind the newspaper office confer on ...

208 animal, vegetable, miracle in my psyche, even while living in some of the world’s major cities. It’s probably this dual citi ...

life in a red state 209 mon designation. It’s hard for me to see the usefulness of lumping Minneapolis, Atlanta, my little homet ...

210 animal, vegetable, miracle petbaggers of the reconstruction era were not the first or the last oppor- tunists to capitalize ...

life in a red state 211 week,” one store offered without warning, and then another. Not the next week either, nor the next. A to ...

Canning Season / imagination. by camille When I was a kid, summer was as long as a lifetime. A month could pass without me ever ...