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SUMMARY:Slow Cookbooks: Focus on Lidia Bastianich’s cookbooks.
DESCRIPTION:More informaton coming soon.
URL:https://www.slowfoodsonomacountynorth.org/events/slow-cookbooks-focus-on-lidia-bastianichs-cookbooks/
CATEGORIES:Books
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SUMMARY:Meet the Author: Jim DeMartini with Sophia DeMartini
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an afternoon with Cloverdale author–and forager–Jim DeMartini and his illustrator daughter\, Sophia! Jim will read from his book\, The Cloverdale Forager\, and they will discuss the art of foraging and the creation of the book.\nCloverdale Druids Hall\, 111 N. Cloverdale Boulevard\nAppetizers and wine will be served.\nTickets \n$35 for Slow Food members\, and $45 for non-members.\nThe book will be available for purchase (cash\, check\, credit).\n\nThe Cloverdale Forager: Your Guidebook for Gathering\, Preparing\, and Savoring Wild Food\nby Jim DeMartini and Sophia DeMartini\n\nIf it’s in the wild – and allowed to be hunted\, picked\, or collected in Northern California – chances are good that longtime forager\, Jim DeMartini\, has a story to tell and advice to give. From a lifetime of experience crawling around on all fours looking for the perfect mushrooms\, to wading through the surf and capturing succulent surf smelt\, to bribing 10-year-olds to gather hard-to-find banana slugs\, to fishing in the pristine waters of Clear Lake\, California for black bass\, DeMartini shares humorous and informative reflections\, stories\, and recipes.\nThe Cloverdale Forager provides ideas and recommendations for the best ways to capture wild food\, while inviting you to sink your teeth into:\n▸ Learning how to identify\, capture\, and collect the tastiest\, most flavorful wild animals\, fish\, birds\, and plants;\n▸ Savoring the amazing taste that is unique to food that’s been prepared literally minutes after bagging it;\n▸ DeMartini’s extensive repertoire of recipes and food preparation tips;\n▸ Forging a deeper connection with nature\, the creatures that inhabit it\, and the socially conscious foraging community.\nFrom acorns\, spring mix\, and blackberries\, to quail\, abalone\, and surf smelt\, The Cloverdale Forager is the essential guide for both veteran and new foragers alike. Discover the fun\, amazing\, and exquisite taste experience that only foraging can provide!
URL:https://www.slowfoodsonomacountynorth.org/events/meet-the-author-the-cloverdale-forager-with-jim-demartini/
LOCATION:Cloverdale Druids Hall\, 111 N. Cloverdale Boulevard\, Cloverdale\, CA\, 95425\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books
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SUMMARY:Slow Books\, Zaitoun: Recipes from the Palestinian Kitchen\, by Yasmin Khan
DESCRIPTION:Slow Books is currently full\, but we are currently reading Zaitoun: Recipes from the Palestinian Kitchen\, by Yasmin Khan.
URL:https://www.slowfoodsonomacountynorth.org/events/slow-books-zaitoun-recipes-from-the-palestinian-kitchen-by-yasmin-khan/
LOCATION:Cloverdale
CATEGORIES:Books
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230517T160000
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SUMMARY:Slow Cookbooks: Focus on Deborah Madison
DESCRIPTION:  \nPlease join us for the next meet-up of Slow Cookbooks!\nDeborah Madison is the author of 14 cookbooks and countless articles on food\, cooking\, and farming. She is revered for bringing vegetarian cooking to a wide audience\, including non-vegetarians\, via Greens restaurant in San Francisco and her cookbooks. A bestselling and award-winning author\, her first cookbook was The Greens Cookbook. \nPlease join us on May 17 to share food from her cookbooks\, and discuss her philosophy of food and cooking\, what she has contributed to the world of food\, and your critique of her cookbooks.\nTo participate\, select a recipe from one of Deborah Madison’s books and prepare small bites to share with the group. We will let you know how many people will be attending. Please also bring a beverage. \nThere is no charge for the meeting\, but please sign up now because space is limited.\nRegister Here\nWhat Is Slow Cookbooks?\nSlow Cookbooks is an informal group that will gather 4 times a year in someone’s home to discuss the book(s) chosen for that meeting and share food each participant prepares from the book. Each meeting will have a different food theme or cookbook\, selected by participants\, and is open to everyone who wants to explore that focus.
URL:https://www.slowfoodsonomacountynorth.org/events/slow-cookbooks-focus-on-deborah-madison/
LOCATION:Cloverdale
CATEGORIES:Books
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230605T180000
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SUMMARY:Slow Books:  California Soul by Tanya Holland
DESCRIPTION:The Slow Book group is currently full\, but we are reading California Soul by Tanya Holland. \n 
URL:https://www.slowfoodsonomacountynorth.org/events/slow-books-california-soul-by-tanya-holland/
CATEGORIES:Books,Food
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230905T180000
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SUMMARY:Slow Books:  The Cooking Gene
DESCRIPTION:Slow Books: The Cooking Gene\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe have two places open for the next meeting of Slow Books. Please join us!\nTuesday\, September 5\, 6-8 pm\nCloverdale\nFor this meeting\, we are reading The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael Twitty. \nOur meetings include a discussion of the book and a meal. Everyone makes a dish from a recipe in the book. Just select a dish you’d like to bring and let the group know by email. \nThere is no charge for the meeting\, but please sign up now because there are only two places available.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Here \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael Twitty.\nA renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue\, race\, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry—both black and white—through food\, from Africa to America and slavery to freedom. \nSouthern food is integral to the American culinary tradition\, yet the question of who “owns” it is one of the most provocative touch points in our ongoing struggles over race. In this unique memoir\, culinary historian Michael W. Twitty takes readers to the white-hot center of this fight\, tracing the roots of his own family and the charged politics surrounding the origins of soul food\, barbecue\, and all Southern cuisine. \nFrom the tobacco and rice farms of colonial times to plantation kitchens and backbreaking cotton fields\, Twitty tells his family story through the foods that enabled his ancestors’ survival across three centuries. He sifts through stories\, recipes\, genetic tests\, and historical documents\, and travels from Civil War battlefields in Virginia to synagogues in Alabama to Black-owned organic farms in Georgia. \nAs he takes us through his ancestral culinary history\, Twitty suggests that healing may come from embracing the discomfort of the Southern past. Along the way\, he reveals a truth that is more than skin deep—the power that food has to bring the kin of the enslaved and their former slaveholders to the table\, where they can discover the real America together. (Amazon) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n©2023 Slow Food Sonoma County North | P.O. Box 1494 | Healdsburg CA | 95448
URL:https://www.slowfoodsonomacountynorth.org/events/slow-books-the-cooking-gene/
CATEGORIES:Books,Food
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240219T180000
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SUMMARY:Slow Books: The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger\, Hotter\, Smarter World
DESCRIPTION:Although the Slow Books meet-up is currently full\, you can join us in reading this month’s selection. \nThe Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger\, Hotter\, Smarter World by Amanda Little \nIn the fascinating story of the sustainable food revolution\, an environmental journalist and professor asks the question: Is the future of food looking bleak – or better than ever? \nClimate models show that global crop production will decline every decade for the rest of this century due to drought\, heat\, and flooding. Water supplies are in jeopardy. Meanwhile\, the world’s population is expected to grow another 30 percent by midcentury. So how\, really\, will we feed nine billion people sustainably in the coming decades? \nAmanda Little\, a professor at Vanderbilt University and an award-winning journalist\, spent three years traveling through a dozen countries and as many US states in search of answers to this question.Through her interviews and adventures with farmers\, scientists\, activists\, and engineers\, Little tells the fascinating story of human innovation and explores new and old approaches to food production while charting the growth of a movement that could redefine sustainable food on a grand scale. \nThroughout her journey\, Little finds and shares a deeper understanding of the threats of climate change and encounters a sense of awe and optimism about the lessons of our past and the scope of human ingenuity. (Amazon)
URL:https://www.slowfoodsonomacountynorth.org/events/slow-books-the-fate-of-food-what-well-eat-in-a-bigger-hotter-smarter-world/
CATEGORIES:Books,Food
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240513
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SUMMARY:Slow Books: The World Central Kitchen Cookbook by Jose Andres
DESCRIPTION:Although the Slow Books meet-up is currently full\, you can join us in reading this month’s selection. \n \n 
URL:https://www.slowfoodsonomacountynorth.org/events/slow-books-the-world-central-kitchen-cookbook-by-jose-andres/
CATEGORIES:Books,Food
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240624
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240625
DTSTAMP:20240527T193740Z
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SUMMARY:Slow Books: How to Cook a Wolf by M.F.K. Fisher
DESCRIPTION:Although the Slow Books meet-up is currently full\, you can join us in reading this month’s selection. \nWritten to inspire courage in those daunted by wartime shortages\, How to Cook a Wolf continues to rally cooks during times of plenty\, reminding them that providing sustenance requires more than putting food on the table. \nM. F. K. Fisher knew that the last thing hungry people needed were hints on cutting back and making do. Instead\, she gives her readers license to dream\, to experiment\, to construct adventurous and delicious meals as a bulwark against a dreary\, meager present. Her fine prose provides reason in itself to draw our chairs close to the hearth; we can still enjoy her company and her exhortations to celebrate life by eating well. \n 
URL:https://www.slowfoodsonomacountynorth.org/events/slow-books-how-to-cook-a-wolf-by-m-f-k-fisher/
CATEGORIES:Books,Food
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240805
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240806
DTSTAMP:20240731T061331Z
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SUMMARY:Slow Books: Endangered Eating: America's Vanishing Foods\, by Sarah Lohman
DESCRIPTION:Slow Books is an ongoing activity of our chapter. The group meets every 6 weeks to discuss a food-related book and enjoy a potluck dinner based on the book. We meet in people’s homes which can usually only accommodate up to 8 people. For this reason\, we are usually unable to invite others than our core group of participants. \nBut we’re learning a lot from the books we’ve read\, and thought you might want to enjoy the books as well. We will therefore let you know what we’re reading each meeting through the newsletter and our website. \nAugust Selection\nEndangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods\, by Sarah Lohman\nIn Endangered Eating\, culinary historian Sarah Lohman draws inspiration from the Ark of Taste\, a list compiled by Slow Food International that catalogues important regional foods. Lohman travels the country learning about the distinct ingredients at risk of being lost. Readers follow Lohman to Hawaii\, as she walks alongside farmers to learn the stories behind heirloom sugarcane. In the Navajo Nation\, she assists in the traditional butchering of a Navajo Churro ram. Lohman heads to the Upper Midwest\, to harvest wild rice; to the Pacific Northwest\, to spend a day wild salmon reefnet fishing; to the Gulf Coast\, to devour gumbo made thick and green with filé powder; and to the Lowcountry of South Carolina\, to taste America’s oldest peanut—long thought to be extinct. Lohman learns from those who love these rare ingredients: shepherds\, fishers\, and farmers; scientists\, historians\, and activists. And she tries her hand at raising these crops and preparing these dishes. Each chapter includes two recipes\, so readers can be a part of saving these ingredients by purchasing and preparing them. \n  \nAnimated by stories yet grounded in historical research\, Endangered Eating gives readers the tools to support community food organizations and producers that work to preserve local culinary traditions and rare\, cherished foods—before it’s too late. (Amazon)
URL:https://www.slowfoodsonomacountynorth.org/events/slow-books-endangered-eating-americas-vanishing-foods-by-sarah-lohman/
CATEGORIES:Books,Food
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240916
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SUMMARY:Slow Books: The Migrant Chef: The Life and Times of Lalo Garcia\, by Laura Tillman
DESCRIPTION:Slow Books: The Migrant Chef\, The Life and Times of Lalo Garcia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe have 3 places available at our next Slow Books meeting\, and invite you to join us for a potluck dinner and discussion of the book\, The Migrant Chef: The Life and Times of Lalo Garcia\,by Laura Tillman.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday\, September 16\, 6 pm\, Cloverdale\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThere is no charge for the meeting\, but we must know who is coming. Please sign up here and we will confirm your attendance: slowfoodsonomacountynorth@gmail.com. The address and details about the meeting will be sent upon confirmation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Migrant Chef: The Life and Times of Lalo Garcia\, by Laura Tillman A chef’s gripping quest to reconcile his childhood experiences as a migrant farmworker with the rarefied world of fine dining. Born in rural Mexico\, Eduardo “Lalo” García Guzmán and his family left for the United States when he was a child\, picking fruits and vegetables on the migrant route from Florida to Michigan. He worked in Atlanta restaurants as a teenager before being convicted of a robbery\, incarcerated\, and eventually deported. Lalo landed in Mexico City as a new generation of chefs was questioning the hierarchies that had historically privileged European cuisine in elite spaces. At his acclaimed restaurant\, Máximo Bistrot\, he began to craft food that narrated his memories and hopes. Mexico City–based journalist Laura Tillman spent five years immersively reporting on Lalo’s story: from Máximo’s kitchen to the onion fields of Vidalia\, Georgia\, to Dubai’s first high-end Mexican restaurant\, to Lalo’s hometown of San José de las Pilas. What emerges is a moving portrait of Lalo’s struggle to find authenticity in an industry built on the very inequalities that drove his family to leave their home\, and of the artistic process as Lalo calls on the experiences of his life to create transcendent cuisine. The Migrant Chef offers an unforgettable window into a family’s border-eclipsing dreams\, Mexico’s culinary heritage\, and the making of a chef. (Amazon)
URL:https://www.slowfoodsonomacountynorth.org/events/slow-books-the-migrant-chef-the-life-and-times-of-lalo-garcia-by-laura-tillman/
CATEGORIES:Books,Food
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241028T173000
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SUMMARY:Slow Books: The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating\, Reading\, Reading About Eating\, and Eating While Reading
DESCRIPTION:Slow Books is an ongoing activity of our chapter. The group meets every 6 weeks to discuss a food-related book and enjoy a potluck dinner based on the book. We meet in people’s homes which can usually only accommodate up to 8 people. For this reason\, we are usually unable to invite others than our core group of participants. \nBut we’re learning a lot from the books we’ve read\, and thought you might want to enjoy the books as well.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOCTOBER SELECTION: The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating\, Reading\, Reading About Eating\, and Eating While Reading\, by Dwight Garner \n\n\nDwight Garner\, the beloved New York Times critic and the author of Garner’s Quotations\, serves up the intertwined pleasures of books and food. The product of a lifetime of obsessively reading\, eating\, and every combination therein\, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating\, Reading\, Reading About Eating\, and Eating While Reading is a charming\, emotional memoir\, one that only Garner could write. In it\, he records the voices of great writers and the stories from his life that fill his mind as he moves through the sections of the day and of this book: breakfast\, lunch\, shopping\, the occasional nap\, drinking\, and dinner.  \n\n\nThrough his lifelong infatuation with these twin joys\, we meet the man behind the pages and the plates\, and a portrait of Garner\, eager and insatiable\, emerges. He writes with tenderness and humor about his mayonnaise-laden childhood in West Virginia and Naples\, Florida (and about his father’s famous peanut butter and pickle sandwich)\, his mind-opening marriage to a chef from a foodie family (“Cree grew up taking leftover frog legs to school in her lunch box”)\, and the words and dishes closest to his heart. This is a book to be savored\, though it may just whet your appetite for more. (Amazon)
URL:https://www.slowfoodsonomacountynorth.org/events/slow-books-the-upstairs-delicatessen-on-eating-reading-reading-about-eating-and-eating-while-reading/
LOCATION:Sebastopol
CATEGORIES:Books,Food
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241202T173000
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SUMMARY:Slow Books: Invitation to A Banquet\, by Fuchsia Dunlop
DESCRIPTION:Our Slow Boods group is currently full\, but please enjoy reading along with us. \nDECEMBER SELECTION: Invitation to A Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food\, by Fuchsia Dunlop \n\nChinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese laborers began to settle abroad\, restaurants appeared in their wake. Yet Chinese has the curious distinction of being both one of the world’s best-loved culinary traditions and one of the least understood. For more than a century\, the overwhelming dominance of a simplified form of Cantonese cooking ensured that few foreigners experienced anything of its richness and sophistication—but today that is beginning to change. \n\n\nIn Invitation to a Banquet\, award-winning cook and writer Fuchsia Dunlop explores the history\, philosophy\, and techniques of Chinese culinary culture. In each chapter\, she examines a classic dish\, from mapo tofu to Dongpo pork\, knife-scraped noodles to braised pomelo pith\, to reveal a distinctive aspect of Chinese gastronomy\, whether it’s the importance of the soybean\, the lure of exotic ingredients\, or the history of Buddhist vegetarian cuisine.  \n\n\nMeeting food producers\, chefs\, gourmets\, and home cooks as she tastes her way across the country\, Fuchsia invites readers to join her on an unforgettable journey into Chinese food as it is cooked\, eaten\, and considered in its homeland. (Amazon)
URL:https://www.slowfoodsonomacountynorth.org/events/slow-books-invitation-to-a-banquet-by-fuchsia-dunlop/
LOCATION:Healdsburg
CATEGORIES:Books,Food
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250623T173000
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SUMMARY:Slow Books: Love\, Loss\, and What We Ate: A Memoir\, by Padma Lakshmi
DESCRIPTION:Slow Books is an ongoing activity of our chapter. The group meets every 6 weeks to discuss a food-related book and enjoy a potluck dinner based on the book. We meet in people’s homes which can usually only accommodate up to 8 people. For this reason\, we are usually unable to invite others than our core group of participants. \n\nBut we’re learning a lot from the books we’ve read\, and thought you might want to enjoy the books as well.  \n\n\nJUNE SELECTION: Slow Books: Love\, Loss\, and What We Ate: A Memoir\, by Padma Lakshmi \n\nA vivid memoir of food and family\, survival and triumph\, Love\, Loss\, and What We Ate traces the arc of Padma Lakshmi’s unlikely path from an immigrant childhood to a complicated life in front of the camera—a tantalizing blend of Ruth Reichl’s Tender at the Bone and Nora Ephron’s Heartburn \nLong before Padma Lakshmi ever stepped onto a television set\, she learned that how we eat is an extension of how we love\, how we comfort\, how we forge a sense of home—and how we taste the world as we navigate our way through it. Shuttling between continents as a child\, she lived a life of dislocation that would become habit as an adult\, never quite at home in the world. And yet\, through all her travels\, her favorite food remained the simple rice she first ate sitting on the cool floor of her grandmother’s kitchen in South India. \nPoignant and surprising\, Love\, Loss\, and What We Ate is Lakshmi’s extraordinary account of her journey from that humble kitchen\, ruled by ferocious and unforgettable women\, to the judges’ table of Top Chef and beyond. It chronicles the fierce devotion of the remarkable people who shaped her along the way\, from her headstrong mother who flouted conservative Indian convention to make a life in New York\, to her Brahmin grandfather—a brilliant engineer with an irrepressible sweet tooth—to the man seemingly wrong for her in every way who proved to be her truest ally. A memoir rich with sensual prose and punctuated with evocative recipes\, it is alive with the scents\, tastes\, and textures of a life that spans complex geographies both internal and external. \nLove\, Loss\, and What We Ate is an intimate and unexpected story of food and family—both the ones we are born to and the ones we create—and their enduring legacies. Amazon
URL:https://www.slowfoodsonomacountynorth.org/events/slow-books-love-loss-and-what-we-ate-a-memoir-by-padma-lakshmi/
CATEGORIES:Books,Food
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SUMMARY:Slow Books: Epitaph for a Peach\, David Mas Masumoto
DESCRIPTION:Slow Books is an ongoing activity of our chapter. The group meets every 6 weeks to discuss a food-related book and enjoy a potluck dinner based on the book. We meet in people’s homes which can usually only accommodate up to 8 people. For this reason\, we are usually unable to invite others than our core group of participants. \n\nBut we’re learning a lot from the books we’ve read\, and thought you might want to enjoy the books as well.  \n\n\nJUNE SELECTION: Slow Books: Epitaph for a Peach\, David Mas Masumoto \nA lyrical\, sensuous and thoroughly engrossing memoir of one critical year in the life of an organic peach farmer\, Epitaph for a Peach is “a delightful narrative . . . with poetic flair and a sense of humor” (Library Journal). Line drawings. Amazon
URL:https://www.slowfoodsonomacountynorth.org/events/slow-books-epitaph-for-a-peach-david-mas-masumoto/
CATEGORIES:Books,Food
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