Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

the birds and the bees 93 demand has continued. So we jumped on that wagon, hoping to have our rare birds and eat them too. / Li ...

94 animal, vegetable, miracle crept out of her room an hour later to revise the evaluation. “I didn’t really mean that, Mama,” s ...

the birds and the bees 95 She eyed me for a minute. “How much can I sell a dozen eggs for?” “Nice brown organic eggs? Probably t ...

96 animal, vegetable, miracle poultry order. Lily shivered with excitement as we discussed the pros and cons of countless differ ...

Eating My / this: who?” that’s not easy to Sister’s Chickens by camille During my first year of college, one of my frequent conv ...

98 animal, vegetable, miracle foods fortified with B12 to prevent this dangerous deficiency. Vegan diets also tend to be skimpy ...

the birds and the bees 99 y CHICKEN RECUERDOS DE TUCSON sauté the onion and garlic. 1 teaspoon cumin seed (^1) ⁄ 2 on season) 1 ...

7 • GRATITUDE May On Mother’s Day, in keeping with local tradition, we gave out tomato plants. Elsewhere this may be the genteel ...

gratitude 101 wither up straightaway and die. They have lots of stories to back this up. They do not wish to discuss whether pla ...

102 animal, vegetable, miracle also put out winter squash, pumpkins, basil seedlings, eggplants, and mel- ons, including cantalo ...

gratitude 103 Hindu might order up fast- food burgers just because she had a crowd to feed. It put us in a bit of a pickle, thou ...

104 animal, vegetable, miracle would be asparagus, of course, plus lots of baby lettuces and spinach by then. Free- range eggs a ...

gratitude 105 the cashier who’d jinxed the rain in Tucson. We weren’t in drought here, so we decided we could hope with impunity ...

106 animal, vegetable, miracle We set up a sound system on the back patio, dragged bales of straw into benches, and eyed the sky ...

gratitude 107 Camille made the call, and it was inspired: a plant. The tiniest posy, anything would serve. And truthfully, while ...

/ y again. Happy Returns by camille Birthdays have always been a big deal in my family. Mom would cook ex- actly what we wanted ...

gratitude 109 (^1) ⁄ 2 (^1) ⁄ 2 until and separated so they simple option is to add a few tablespoons of rice vinegar and sesame ...

110 animal, vegetable, miracle (^1) ⁄ 2 teaspoon allspice (^1) ⁄ 3 cup butter Mix until crumbly, sprinkle over fruit mixture, an ...

8 • GROWING TRUST Mid- June Twice a year, on opposite points around the calendar’s circle, the perpet- ual motion of our garden ...

112 animal, vegetable, miracle tively modest scale required that we put in overtime to buy a respite. We mulched everything heav ...