Research Catalog

Title

Fields of plenty : a farmer's journey in search of real food and the people who grow it / text and photographs by Michael Ableman.

Author

Ableman, Michael

Publication

San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 2005.

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Details

Description

255 p. : col. ill.; 27 cm.

Summary

• "Fields of Plenty is the memoir of respected farmer, writer, and photographer Michael Ableman as he and his son travel from his own farm in British Columbia across the United States in search of innovative and passionate farmers who are making a difference in what we eat and how we experience food. From California to New York, this story captures the essence of each farmer's vision, the spirit of the land that they work, and the beauty and flavors of the foods that they lovingly produce.
• Ableman's odyssey takes him to a melon grower who is "militant about flavor," sheep-cheese producers who have built their own culturing caves, an urban farmer growing heirloom tomatoes for market on abandoned lots, and others who are trying to answer the complex questions of sustenance philosophically and, most important, practically." "Fields of Plenty is a hopeful memoir that reveals the larger issues of food in a modern world. Illustrated with Ableman's photographs and flavored with recipes that feature each farmer's bounty, Fields of Plenty is an intimate portrait of food and agriculture at a critical crossroads."--Jacket.

Subjects

• Livres de cuisine
• Cookbooks
• cookbooks
• Cooking
• Natural foods
• Farms, Small > British Columbia
• Farms, Small > United States
• Organic farming > British Columbia
• Organic farming > United States

Genre/Form

• cookbooks.
• Cookbooks
• Livres de cuisine.

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Spirit wrestlers -- Militance -- Outlaws -- Fire and mold -- Classical and jazz -- Margins -- Science and civics -- Heart land -- Food with a face -- New roots -- Table of equivalents.

ISBN

0811842231

LCCN

^^2004030955

OCLC

• 57392892
• SCSB-10732338

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library