Read Feast Nearby: How I Lost My Job, Buried A Marriage, And Found My Way By Keeping Chickens, Foraging, Preserving, Bartering, And Eating Locally (Al (2014)
Feast Nearby: How I Lost My Job, Buried A Marriage, And Found My Way By Keeping Chickens, Foraging, Preserving, Bartering, And Eating Locally (Al (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
This is part cookbook, part memoir of a woman who lost her job and her husband, and had to move to a lakehouse in southwest Michigan (local for me.) She made a commitment to eat locally as much as possible, and for obvious reasons had to economize, so she explains how to preserve and what she preserved. At the end of each chapter are recipes for the things she made. It was very interesting and I enjoyed hearing about her pets as much as anything else. Another in the long line of "rediscovering self-sufficiency" books, and not the worst of the bunch. If you read a lot of this genre, you might remark that it's stronger on the depiction of interactions between consumers (in this case, a single consumer, the author) and producers and less focused on the quotidian chores of daily life. Mather brings up relevant political points in our increasingly-Big Business oriented farm system and shares recipes that are pretty simple, standard fare. But Mather doesn't garden, eats a lot of meat, and relies on lots of processed (sugar/flour) products for her diet, so I couldn't really say she was any different from a person living in a condo in the city, but that she had some hens and a good view of the lake. And even some of my city friends have those.I would read another of her books, sure, but I think Sue Hubbell and Barbara Kingsolver are still the queens of this genre.
What do You think about Feast Nearby: How I Lost My Job, Buried A Marriage, And Found My Way By Keeping Chickens, Foraging, Preserving, Bartering, And Eating Locally (Al (2014)?
Very short and very sweet! Lots of recipes.
—bookie88
