Bibliograph

The call of the farm, an unexpected year of getting dirty, home cooking, and finding myself, Rochelle Bilow

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The call of the farm, an unexpected year of getting dirty, home cooking, and finding myself, Rochelle Bilow

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The call of the farm

Oclc number

879034122

Responsibility statement

Rochelle Bilow

Sub title

an unexpected year of getting dirty, home cooking, and finding myself

Summary

The author, a classically trained cook and aspiring food writer, 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. 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. 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, 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 a handsome, blue-eyed farmer with a soulful gaze

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