Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

eating neighborly 153 Northeast, depleted farmland, communities where the big economic en- gine is crystal meth. We often have t ...

11 • SLOW FOOD NATIONS Late June North of the border, in Petite Italie, where everyone speaks French, it can be hard to remember ...

slow food nations 155 front: arches, bucket, or cowboy hat. That’s the answer to the question, “Where did it come from?” Of cour ...

156 animal, vegetable, miracle them closely, then looked up at me with eyebrows raised in the age- old question: dinner, or pets ...

slow food nations 157 I asked about his eggs, “From chickens, madame.”) We were fl at- out amazed to see what enterprising Quebe ...

158 animal, vegetable, miracle block to get the car started, fresh spinach and broccoli would be a wel- come sight. I’d buy it i ...

slow food nations 159 / From the border we traveled southwest across the wine country of New York and northern Pennsylvania, whe ...

160 animal, vegetable, miracle trous course for June, a peak growing time for crops and pastures. A few storms had gathered late ...

slow food nations 161 hundred gallons of Jersey milk throbbing and flowing upward through the maze of clear, flexible pipes like ...

162 animal, vegetable, miracle chicken, cow, or canary will be required by law to get onto the map and this federal database. Fa ...

slow food nations 163 years before David took the helm; on our right lay soil that had never known anything but manure and rotat ...

164 animal, vegetable, miracle breathless suspense until—zoom—his flight dance climaxed suddenly in a nosedive. We stood in the ...

slow food nations 165 David’s communion with his cornfield is part meditation and part biology. The plants, insects, birds, mamm ...

166 animal, vegetable, miracle whose house stood just beyond David’s cornfi eld. As we stayed into eve- ning, conversation on th ...

slow food nations 167 country where those qualities have slipped from our paddock of everyday virtues, over to the side of “mira ...

168 animal, vegetable, miracle coming through the tall windows, sunlight washing white walls, a horse clop-clopping by on the ro ...

slow food nations 169 dardbred horse- drawn buggy limits the distances we travel. This is basically what we need. This is what k ...

/ Organically Yours by camille The word organic brings to my mind all the health food stores I’ve roamed through over the years, ...

slow food nations 171 our bring one of y 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar (^1) ⁄ 4 for life, watching the neighbors get a nasty ca ...

172 animal, vegetable, miracle 1 stick cold butter y 1 medium cantaloupe 1 small jalapeño pepper (^1) ⁄ 2 (^1) ⁄ 4 1–2 tablespoo ...