Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

springing forward 53 The “resources” Harlan refers to are old varieties, heirlooms and land races—the thousands of locally adapt ...

54 animal, vegetable, miracle conditions, but it has the combined smarts and longevity of all the sires that ever jumped over th ...

springing forward 55 a cardboard picture of its former self.” You’d think we cared more about the idea of what we’re eating than ...

56 animal, vegetable, miracle members in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, the United States, France, Ja- pan, and Great Britain. The ...

springing forward 57 which we call “eggs in a nest,” was inspired by the eggs from Lily’s fi rst flock of hens and fi ve- color ...

58 animal, vegetable, miracle But on a brisk April day when the tranquils are up and Jack Frost might still come out of retireme ...

/ Our bodies don’t First, Eat Your Greens by camille I’ve grown up in a world that seems to have a pill for almost everything. C ...

60 animal, vegetable, miracle phenols for age- defying antioxidants (blue and purple fruits). Thousands of the phytochemicals we ...

springing forward 61 y half.) (^1) ⁄ 2 cup dried tomatoes 1 8 eggs y 1 pound whole-grain lasagna noodles 4 cups chopped spinach ...

62 animal, vegetable, miracle Spread a thin layer of tomato sauce on the bottom of a large casserole. Cover surface with a layer ...

4 • STALKING THE VEGETANNUAL If potatoes can surprise some part of their audience by growing leaves, it may not have occurred to ...

64 animal, vegetable, miracle (depending on species) wait for the wind. From that union comes the blessed event, babies made, in ...

stalking the vegetannual 65 pumpkins, winter squash (August–September). Last come the root crops, and so ends the produce parade ...

66 animal, vegetable, miracle tice when I’m consuming the United Nations of edible plants and ani- mals all in one seating. (Or ...

stalking the vegetannual 67 someday to my grandkids) the end of the world. I ate them and said “Thank you.” Human manners are wi ...

68 animal, vegetable, miracle choices about food based on the global consequences of its production and transport? In a country ...

stalking the vegetannual 69 The gentleman lived in Frostburg, Maryland, where they would still have been deeply involved in a th ...

5 • MOLLY MOOCHING April In the year 1901, Sanford Webb ran a dozen head of cattle on his new farm and watched to see where they ...

molly mooching 71 farm, we were gathered into that circle. The Webbs unfailingly invite us to their family reunions. Along with ...

72 animal, vegetable, miracle symmetrically spaced trunks, and on warm April days when the trees are in bloom, it’s an almost un ...