The call of the farm
Subtitle: an unexpected year of getting dirty, home cooking, and finding myself
By: Rochelle Bilow
Publisher: The Experiment
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781615192144
Subjects: Food writers; Homes and haunts; Farm life; Seasonal cooking; Biography
Description: Rochelle Bilow was nursing a broken heart and frustrated with her yet-to-take-off career when she set out to write a short profile of a small, sustainable CSA farm in central New York. At most, she expected to come away with a cute city-girl-in-the-country piece. But after just one day of moving hay bales, feeding pigs, and tapping maple sap, she was hooked: The air was fresh, her muscles felt useful, and the smells from the kitchen where the farmhands gathered at day's end were intoxicating. Add in a sweet but enigmatic young farmer whose soulful gaze meets her own, and The Call of the Farm is set in motion. This memoir charts the unexpected year that unfolds as Rochelle immerses herself in life at the farm. She cooks her way through four seasons of fresh-from-the-earth produce (with such tantalizing results as Blistered Tomato Gratin and Crisped Potato Casserole with Shaved Chives), grapples more than once with the finer points of rendering lard, and begins to feel she has finally found her niche all while falling hard for that handsome, blue-eyed farmer.
Table of contents: title: Spring; title: Recipes for spring; title: Summer; title: Recipes for summer; title: Fall; title: Recipes for fall; title: Winter; title: Recipes for winter; title: Spring; title: Recipes for spring.