Grace Firth (1922–2004)
Auteur de Stillroom Cookery: The Art of Preserving Foods Naturally, With Recipes, Menus, and Metric Measures
Œuvres de Grace Firth
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1922-08-16
- Date de décès
- 2004-07-29
- Sexe
- female
- Lieu de naissance
- Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
- Lieu du décès
- San Antonio, Texas, USA
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 5
- Membres
- 84
- Popularité
- #216,911
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 7
Written nearly forty years ago, this is the equivalent of the farmwife's blog -- the woman who raises and homeschools children while growing vegetables, canning and preserving fruit, raising chickens and gathering eggs -- all neatly presented on a Wordpress blog with beautifully lit photographs of the products of her labor. It's hard to believe this book was written so recently -- one almost envisions it as written by some pioneer wife a la Laura Ingalls. While I appreciate the hard work and labor of the pioneer and farming women, I feel it has been cheapened by the advent of trends in country living, held up as some pristine standard to which those hoping to live a green, sustainable life must aspire to attain. However, the details of food procurement, preservation, and presentation are wonderful, though they do serve as a further reminder just how detached and unaware we are presently of the processing of our food.… (plus d'informations)