Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

molly mooching 73 trees. The deciduous eastern woodlands of North America can bear hu- man alteration with a surprising grace. B ...

74 animal, vegetable, miracle how much work you’ve been known to do in a day. Tobacco even sets the date of graduation, since th ...

molly mooching 75 Most tobacco farmers wish they could grow something else. As of now, most will have to. Federal price supports ...

76 animal, vegetable, miracle in our farmhouse, we were able to purchase it from a friend’s woodlot nearby. No farmer earns a wh ...

molly mooching 77 litical debate insistently poses economic success and environmental health as enemies, permanently at odds. Lo ...

78 animal, vegetable, miracle The mushroom genus Morchella contains some of the most highly prized of all edible wild fungi. Mor ...

molly mooching 79 Lot. We know that only because our friends who grew up on this farm showed us where to look. This is the kind ...

80 animal, vegetable, miracle with morels, and I am not one to argue with wild mushroomers who claim the distinction of being st ...

molly mooching 81 small, flat Italian favorite called “Borretana cipollini.” I was anticipating our family’s needs, knowing I wo ...

82 animal, vegetable, miracle est tendrils of annual growth—leaves, shoots, and buds—filled out with early production coaxed fro ...

/ don’t miss what’s not loot. ! Getting It While You Can by camille When our family fi rst started our local food project, I was ...

84 animal, vegetable, miracle y 3 cups milk and set aside to steep. 1 pound asparagus Chop into^1 ⁄ 2 2 tablespoons butter Salt ...

molly mooching 85 their juices, and^2 ⁄ 3 of the cheese. Mix thoroughly and pour into a greased 8 by 12-inch baking dish; sprink ...

6 • THE BIRDS AND THE BEES One of my favorite short stories is Eudora Welty’s “Why I Live at the P.O.” It’s a dead- on comic sat ...

the birds and the bees 87 Alexandria library. Anne sounded unfazed on the morning she called to say, “You’d better come get this ...

88 animal, vegetable, miracle threw back her shoulders and announced, “I had to start my own chicken business this morning.” The ...

the birds and the bees 89 rage, this water drinking, as all the poults tried dipping and stretching like yodelers, now urgently ...

90 animal, vegetable, miracle on a strategy of giving our food a good life until it was good on the table. Our turkeys would be ...

the birds and the bees 91 parts to the insipid vegetable- formerly-known-as-tomato. All the special qualities of heirloom vegeta ...

92 animal, vegetable, miracle The American Livestock Breeds Conservancy keeps track of rare varieties of turkeys, chickens, duck ...