Bringing It to the Table : On Farming and Food
ISBN: 9781582435435 | 158243543X
Format: Trade PaperPublisher: Counterpoint
Pub. Date: 8/18/2009
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Introduction by Michael Pollan
Only a farmer could delve so deeply into the origins of food, and only a writer of Wendell Berry's caliber could convey it with such conviction and eloquence. Long before Whole Foods organic produce was available at your local supermarket, Berry was farming with the purity of food in mind. For the last five decades, Berry has embodied mindful eating through his land practices and his writing. In recognition of that influence, Michael Pollan here offers an introduction to this wonderfu... MORE
Only a farmer could delve so deeply into the origins of food, and only a writer of Wendell Berry's caliber could convey it with such conviction and eloquence. Long before Whole Foods organic produce was available at your local supermarket, Berry was farming with the purity of food in mind. For the last five decades, Berry has embodied mindful eating through his land practices and his writing. In recognition of that influence, Michael Pollan here offers an introduction to this wonderfu... MORE
| Introduction | p. ix |
| Farming | |
| Nature as Measure | p. 3 |
| Stupidity in Concentration | p. 11 |
| Agricultural Solutions for Agricultural Problems | p. 19 |
| A Defense of the Family Farm | p. 31 |
| Let the Farm Judge | p. 49 |
| Energy in Agriculture | p. 57 |
| Conservationist and Agrarian | p. 67 |
| Sanitation and the Small Farm | p. 81 | ... MORE
| Renewing Husbandry | p. 87 |
| Farmers | |
| Seven Amish Farms | p. 105 |
| A Good Farmer of the Old School | p. 119 |
| Charlie Fisher | p. 129 |
| A Talent for Necessity | p. 139 |
| Elmer Lapp's Place | p. 149 |
| On The Soil and Health | p. 161 |
| Agriculture from the Roots Up | p. 173 |
| Food | |
| Author's Note | p. 185 |
| From That Distant Land | p. 187 |
| From Hannah Coulter | p. 195 |
| From Andy Catlett | p. 201 |
| From "Misery" | p. 211 |
| From The Memory of Old Jack | p. 213 |
| From Jayber Crow | p. 221 |
| From Hannah Coulter | p. 225 |
| The Pleasures of Eating | p. 227 |
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Wendell Berry is the author of fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He has recently been awarded the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Excellence in Southern Letters and the Louis Bromfield Society Award. For over forty years he has lived and farmed with his wife, Tanya, in Kentucky.
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