To Boldly Grow
Author: Haspel, Tamar
ISBN: 9780593419557
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 06 May 2025
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback / softback
b>A love-letter to the unexpected delights (and occasional despair) of so-called "first-hand food"-meals we grow, forage, fish, or even hunt from the world around us. i>To Boldly Grow/i> is "part memoir, part how-to guide and wholly delightful" (i>Washington Post/i>)./b>BR>BR>b>A love-letter to the unexpected delights (and occasional despair) of so-called "first-hand food"-meals we grow, forage, fish, or even hunt from the world around us. i>To Boldly Grow/i> is "part memoir, part how-to guide and wholly delightful" (i>Washington Post/i>)./b>br>br>When intrepid eater and self-described "crappy gardener" Tamar Haspel and her husband move from Manhattan to two wooded Cape Cod acres, they decide to adopt a more ac-tive approach to their diet-raising chickens, growing tomatoes, foraging for mushrooms, and hunting their own meat. They have more ambition than practical know-how, but that's not about to stop them.br> br> As she ventures farther into first-hand food, Haspel learns to rely less on experts (after all, they can make anything grow) and more on her own ingenuity and creativity. Filled with practical tips and hard-won wisdom, i>To Boldly Grow/i> brings us along with Haspel as she goes from cluelessness to competence, learning what foods the landscape has to offer and discovering that a direct connec-tion to what we eat can utterly change the way we think about our diet-and ourselves.
ISBN: 9780593419557
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 06 May 2025
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback / softback
b>A love-letter to the unexpected delights (and occasional despair) of so-called "first-hand food"-meals we grow, forage, fish, or even hunt from the world around us. i>To Boldly Grow/i> is "part memoir, part how-to guide and wholly delightful" (i>Washington Post/i>)./b>BR>BR>b>A love-letter to the unexpected delights (and occasional despair) of so-called "first-hand food"-meals we grow, forage, fish, or even hunt from the world around us. i>To Boldly Grow/i> is "part memoir, part how-to guide and wholly delightful" (i>Washington Post/i>)./b>br>br>When intrepid eater and self-described "crappy gardener" Tamar Haspel and her husband move from Manhattan to two wooded Cape Cod acres, they decide to adopt a more ac-tive approach to their diet-raising chickens, growing tomatoes, foraging for mushrooms, and hunting their own meat. They have more ambition than practical know-how, but that's not about to stop them.br> br> As she ventures farther into first-hand food, Haspel learns to rely less on experts (after all, they can make anything grow) and more on her own ingenuity and creativity. Filled with practical tips and hard-won wisdom, i>To Boldly Grow/i> brings us along with Haspel as she goes from cluelessness to competence, learning what foods the landscape has to offer and discovering that a direct connec-tion to what we eat can utterly change the way we think about our diet-and ourselves.
