Bibliograph

To boldly grow, finding joy, adventure, and dinner in your own backyard, Tamar Haspel

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To boldly grow, finding joy, adventure, and dinner in your own backyard, Tamar Haspel

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

To boldly grow

Nature of contents

handbooks

Oclc number

1255595655

Responsibility statement

Tamar Haspel

Sub title

finding joy, adventure, and dinner in your own backyard

Summary

"Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food meets Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle in this part memoir, part how-to guide by Tamar Haspel (author of the Washington Post column Unearthed) about the unexpected joys of what she calls "first-hand food"--meals we grow, forage, fish, or even hunt from the world around us"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

We begin unsoiled -- Plants everlasting -- Shiitakes happen -- Coop dreams -- Chicken out -- Fear of falling (in) -- One fish, two fish, start with bluefish -- Practicing shellfishness -- One of these fish is not like the others -- Thrills and skills -- See salt form. Form, salt, form! -- It grows by the wayside -- Acornucopia -- Insert fungus joke here -- Foraging's low-hanging fruit -- Poultry in motion -- Pluck U. -- Pick your poultry -- When a gatherer hunts -- Deer me -- Epilogue: Dinner, which is the point

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