One Man's Meat

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E.B. White

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One Man's Meat

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One Mans Meat continues to delight readers with E.B. Whites witty, succinct observations on daily life at a Maine saltwater farm. Too personal for an almanac, too sophisticated for a domestic history, and too funny and self-doubting for a literary journal, One Mans Meat can best be described as a primer of a countryman's lessons a timeless recounting of experience that wil...more

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Published November 28th 1983 by HarperCollins Publishers (first published May 28th 1944)

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Jan 25, 2009 James rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: essays, lincoln-park-group

The essays of E. B. White in his delightful collection, One Man's Meat, represent a style of writing that is very welcoming to the reader. I found myself laughing out loud at his subtle humor and, while some in our Thursday night book group found the book somewhat superficial, I found a connection that suggested deeper thoughts. Written in the late 30's and early 40s during the approach of and beginning of World War II, White's essays comment on the world around him and chronicle his life on a f...more

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Aug 03, 2008 Mel rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: essays, nonfiction

One Man’s Meat is a collection of essays written by White in the late 1930s and early 1940s. White interjects world politics, children’s literature and farming in to this eclectic series of essays that have an eternal quality to them. White’s ability to blend several topics into one coherent essay is humbling to this writer. I was very fascinated by the way White intertwined the completely mundane with the overwhelming world, here is just one example:

“While the old wars rage and the new ones han...more One Man’s Meat is a collection of essays written by White in the late 1930s and early 1940s. White interjects world politics, children’s literature and farming in to this eclectic series of essays that have an eternal quality to them. White’s ability to blend several topics into one coherent essay is humbling to this writer. I was very fascinated by the way White intertwined the completely mundane with the overwhelming world, here is just one example:

“While the old wars rage and the new ones hang like hawks above the world, we, the unholy innocents, study the bulb catalogue and order one dozen paper-white Grandiflora Narcissus (60 cents) to be grown in a bowl of pebbles. To the list my wife made out I have added one large root of bleeding heart to remind us daily of wounded soldiers and tortured Jews.” (14)

Let’s look at catalogues, oh by the way there is this awful thing going on and you should think about that! He used this technique successfully, in my opinion, throughout the text. Of everything I read during this period, the craft of this text impressed me the most (which surprised me because I did not like Charlotte or Stuart). In places it appeared stream of consciousness, while in others crisp journalistic prose. In no situation did he seem to not be in control of the writing.
White’s original/intended audience likely didn’t read his work as critically, or perhaps as writers would. White offers his reader a lot of carrots. A “regular” reader of his work in Harpers may come to expect a level of politics in his essays—because, at least at this point in his writing, it is present more often than not. White had to have been aware of that.
In my opinion, White is a consummate writer. It appears, over the distance of sixty years, that he was concerned about his audience. He is both eloquent and economic in his use of the language. He has shown amazing discipline, craft-wise. He didn’t send me searching for obscure references, I wasn’t lost in a maze of footnotes, reading dictionary in hand, working to decipher meaning, there were precious few dead-ends in the text, and I wasn’t left asking why. Occasionally, I checked a World War II timeline – to refresh my memory as to the order of events (I remember being surprised at how early he was writing about the Holocaust in an American publication)—but it was strictly for my own edification—such clarity was not necessary for the content of any specific essay.
One can see the future writer of children’s books in many of the essays. His use of vivid imagery is, to me, amazing – who couldn’t see those peeps/chicks huddled up in overcoats? Or a crazed over-stimulated dog? Or even a trailer park in the Keys? He didn’t show us anything – he immersed us in it: the sights, smells, feels and the emotional impact of each situation. And yet, he rarely loses the context of the larger world around him—this is the approach most successful writers of juvenile literature write.

I think we lose something if we don’t read for the beauty in a piece—what is meaning without beauty, even if that beauty is terrible (as Yeats suggests). When the artistry is completely removed we end up with Duchamp’s Fountain (1917) and not Bernini’s Trevi Fountain (1629) in Rome. Over time bold political statements fade away and all that remains is the beauty.
As to “One Man’s Meat”, what White is saying is there is no such thing no matter how far one works to remove themselves from the whole – we are all in this together. He comes back to this over and over again in some very subtle ways, in hunting, in school trips, in helping his neighbor with the sick ewe, in taking the government subsidy (and thus connecting himself to a larger structure). Even in the beginning with the $450 turkey – he is acknowledging that we are interdependent. We depend on our community as individuals – and nations must depend on a world community. In “The Practical Farmer” he acknowledges that his taste in meat (so to speak) may not be for everyone—and that it does take an outside income to survive.
It is important to remember that these essays originally appeared in 3-4pg segments. Two-hundred-seventy-five pages of farming, fishing, and foreign affairs might seem overwhelming – four pages might not. This text successful as a whole.
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Dec 17, 2012 Dan rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I never expected to laugh out loud so much at this book. Here's one of my favorite exchanges (set in rural Maine):

The plowman mentioned the smoke pall when I was talking with him in the afternoon, and I asked if he knew where the fire was.
"Canada," he replied.
"What part of Canada?" I asked.
"The whole of it," he said. "They tell me the whole of Canada is ablaze."
"That's a big fire then," I answered. "Canada is a large place, larger than the United States even."
The plowman considered this di...more

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Apr 21, 2012 Ron rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: nonfiction

This collection of essays is such a fine book; it deserves a much better commentary than it currently has here. And given the times we live in, its subject matter is particularly timely for American readers -- the period of history leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor and the early years of the war effort -- all told from the point of view of a thoughtful writer on a small farm in Maine.

White had moved there with his wife and young son from New York, where he'd been writing for The New Yorke...more This collection of essays is such a fine book; it deserves a much better commentary than it currently has here. And given the times we live in, its subject matter is particularly timely for American readers -- the period of history leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor and the early years of the war effort -- all told from the point of view of a thoughtful writer on a small farm in Maine.

White had moved there with his wife and young son from New York, where he'd been writing for The New Yorker, and took up country living, turning his attention to the annual round of the seasons, farm work, the nearby seaside, and the company of independent rural people. Most of the essays in this collection were written and published monthly in Harpers from July 1938 to January 1943. In them, there is White's awareness of the ominous threat of fascism emerging in Europe, as well as the vulnerability that Americans felt as they found themselves facing prolonged armed conflict with powerful enemies. These were dark days, and they provide a constant undertone in these otherwise upbeat essays about rural and small-town life.

And they are upbeat, celebrating the pleasures and gentle ironies of daily life with a few side trips into the world beyond -- the birth of a lamb, paying taxes, farm dogs, hay fever, raising chickens, Sunday mornings, radio broadcasts, civil defense drills, a visit to Walden pond, a day at the World's Fair, and unrealistic Hollywood portrayals of the pastoral. There is also here his famous essay "Once More to the Lake."

In many ways, the world he writes about is gone forever. But it's a world whose spirit remains at the heart of the national identity -- participatory democracy, individualism, citizenship, self-discovery, and self-reliance. Reading these essays, while they are often about seemingly trivial matters, you sense White's deepening faith in the American Experiment -- a belief in America as a work in progress.

And, of course, there is the famous White style, both simple and elegant. Its language, sentence structure, and movement of thought convey both sharpness of mind and generosity of spirit, in a manner that looks and sounds easy, but it is very hard to imitate. I recommend this book to anyone with an interest in the WWII home front, the essay as a literary form, and a curiosity about rural life before farm subsidies and agribusiness. (less)

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Aug 21, 2011 Patrick O'Neil rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Somewhere I’ve heard it said that a good writer can write about anything and make it interesting. E. B. White is such a writer, a good writer, and he does, at times, seem to write about anything. Although most of the time he seems to write about nothing and I am left wondering why it is that I am reading his writing and couldn’t I be spending my time a little more wisely. Say like taking my car over to the mechanic and watching him rotate my tires or finally cleaning out that storage space under...more Somewhere I’ve heard it said that a good writer can write about anything and make it interesting. E. B. White is such a writer, a good writer, and he does, at times, seem to write about anything. Although most of the time he seems to write about nothing and I am left wondering why it is that I am reading his writing and couldn’t I be spending my time a little more wisely. Say like taking my car over to the mechanic and watching him rotate my tires or finally cleaning out that storage space under the stairs.

However I’d be the first to admit that maybe this sense of “nothing” that I get from One Man’s Meat could quite possibly be because of the era that it was written in, a simpler time for sure. And seeing as simplicity of this sort sets me off I should be a bit more considerate of the time that it was written and the person who’s writing it. Yet I do try and make it a rule not to read anything older than fifty years old. The language, the subject matter, the fact that I can’t understand a goddamn thing anybody’s saying unless it’s written in current slang having a lot to do with my attention span. Yet maybe in this instance it has more to do with the fact that E. B. White seems to celebrate a certain tongue in cheek understated humor that is dry as dirt and twice as boring.

I knew that I was in trouble from the minute I spied the cover of the paperback edition that I’d ordered from Amazon. The author: pictured at his writing desk; a sparse unadorned wooden affair, a manual typewriter, a small wooden barrel as a trashcan – was splashed across the front cover. The image of him just sitting there in that bleak barren cabin, with its picturesque view of a lake; the water a dull flat surface, forested hills distant on the opposite shore – sent shivers down my spine. The whole thing practically screaming “home spun country philosophy” – which I am only too sure the publishers were using as a selling point for the kind of people out there that eat this type of stuff up. I, on the other hand, was left hoping that this was some sort of cruel joke and then I turned a few pages only to find chapters named “Coon Hunt” and “Aunt Poo”.

Slowly I got up out of the chair in my living room and walked to the back door that leads to the porch where I keep my garbage cans. The black one is for garbage, the blue for recyclables. I quickly opened the black can and tossed E. B. White in.
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Jan 06, 2011 Abby rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

There are four reasons this book earns five stars and a very large place in my heart.

First, E. B. White's musings on his life as a sheep farmer remind us that the small details of life are not only interesting, but important. How we spend our days and what occupies our thoughts can seem like tiny, insignificant nothings. This collection of essays help us see that this is not the case. Every tiny detail is like a mosaic tile - small in itself, but hugely important to the whole picture.

Second, Whi...more

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Apr 30, 2012 Lu rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I think One Man's Meat, by E.B. White is fitting for me now. Written primarily during the years surrounding and during WWII, by E.B. White, of Charlotte's Web fame. All essays entries are pertinent today. To war or not to war. To live or not to live. City? Country? What is freedom?
What is the role of animals in humanizing homosapiens? How does the earth sustain human mental health?

White meets essay deadlings for The New York Times from his farm in Maine from 1938 to 1944. Return to the land move...more

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Feb 06, 2010 Chris rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Read this book of essays as part of my reading through the serendipitous secondhand reading room I had access to in Africa during 2008. Loved this book. It's essays by EB White, who left NYC to go live on a farm up in Maine. He writes about the world, about farm life, about what his neighbors do, about his observations and opinions. This book has one of my favorite pieces of writing ever, something White wrote about his dog. It reminded me strongly of a writer friend of mine, in its observationa...more Read this book of essays as part of my reading through the serendipitous secondhand reading room I had access to in Africa during 2008. Loved this book. It's essays by EB White, who left NYC to go live on a farm up in Maine. He writes about the world, about farm life, about what his neighbors do, about his observations and opinions. This book has one of my favorite pieces of writing ever, something White wrote about his dog. It reminded me strongly of a writer friend of mine, in its observational and cranky temperament. I gave this as a gift to someone when I got back, and probably will do so again.

from the book, possibly the best paragraph in American English ever:

Noticed this morning how gray Fred is becoming, our elderly dachshund. His trunk and legs are still red but his muzzle, after dozens of major operations for the removal of porcupine quills, is now a sort of strawberry roan, with many white hairs, the result of worry. Next to myself he is the greatest worrier and schemer on the premises and always has too many things on his mind. He not only handles all his own matters but he has a follow-up system by which he checks on all of mine to see that everything is taken care of. His interest in every phase of farming remains undiminished, as does mine, but his passion for details is a kind of obsession and seems to me unhealthy. He wants to be present in a managerial capacity at every event, no matter how trifling or routine; it makes no difference whether I am dipping a sheep or simply taking a bath myself. He is a fire buff whose blaze is anything at all. In damp weather his arthritis makes stair-climbing a tortuous and painful accomplishment, yet he groans his way down cellar with me to pack eggs and to investigate for the thousandth time the changeless crypt where the egg crates live. Here he awaits the fall of an egg to the floor and the sensual delight of licking it up—which he does with lips drawn slightly back as though in distaste at the strange consistency of the white. His hopes run always to accidents and misfortunes: the broken egg, the spilt milk, the wounded goose, the fallen lamb, the fallen cake. He also has an insane passion for a kicked football and a Roman candle, either of which can throw him into a running fit from which he emerges exhausted and frothing at the mouth. He can block a kick, or he can drop back and receive one full on the nose and run it back ten or twelve yards. His activities and his character constitute an almost uninterrupted annoyance to me, yet he is such an engaging old fool that I am quite attached to him, in a half-regretful way. Life without him would be heaven, but I am afraid it is not what I want.

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Dec 30, 2010 Courtney Johnston rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: biography, borrowed, essays

A deeply perplexing long-short little book. I kept putting it down and then it would worry away at the edge of mind mind, so, in a dogged mood, I finished off, letting myself skip and skim a few of the many essays.

'One Man's Meat' is a anthology of columns written under that name by White for 'Harper's Magazine' (plus three essays written for the New Yorker) between July 1938 and January 1943.

As White writes in his introduction:

'One Man's Meat' is, as the title suggests, a personal record. It is

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May 05, 2009 Alison marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Was intrigued because of this entry on an list-serv for pub editors:

(response to Q. about what would be a good gift to a h.s. grad who is an aspiring writer)

One Man's Meat by E.B. White. Tell her to pay close attention to the way
he seems to be writing so easily and gracefully and talkingly and
conversationally like he's not hardly even trying but really if you look
careful he is telling stories and working his butt off to do so in clean
lean sentences. There's a great lesson in reading anything by...more

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Dec 23, 2010 Nelson rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

First-rate in so many, many ways. Angell says in the intro that EBW lets the war (WWII) seep into his essays about removing his family from Manhattan to a small working farm in Maine. This is wrong. The war is everywhere in this book, though to suggest it is a book about war would also be wrong. It is just that the constant heartbeat below the daily rhythms of farm life as described by White, is his awareness of himself in a larger world slowly coming apart at the seams. And this heartbeat is fe...more

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May 07, 2013 Joe rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Suggestive title, eh? This was EB White's collection of short essays and musings after moving from NY to Maine. Which, given Maine's pull on me, begged at least a cursory read. I had hoped to get engrossed, worshipping at the altar of White as we all do, if based only on Charlotte's Web and the Elements of Style, which, one realizes in the end, don't necessarily confer adult story-telling credentials in and of themselves. His observations are keen, his prose clever. Ultimately his style is so co...more

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Oct 02, 2010 Julie rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: memoirs, essays

What I wouldn't give to have been a fly on the wall of the New Yorker office shared by E.B. White and James Thurber. I've read almost everything Thurber ever published, but wasn't as familar with E.B. He's a masterful essayist and has a lovely, gentle presence on paper, much closer to Emerson than to Thurber in style. The book was written back when people enjoyed a slower, quieter style of writing than today's whiz-bang lead and POW ending. The book covers his life as a gentleman farmer in Maine...more

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Jun 13, 2009 The Library Lady rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, adult-non-fiction

E.B. "Andy" White was a lot more than a children's book author--he was the co-author of The Elements of Style, Third Edition--something that shows in his own precise writer and a major part of The New Yorker magazine.This book is a collection of the columns he wrote for Harper's Magazine in the years before and the beginning of WW II.
There are essays on the oddities of life in rural Maine, musings on dogs and other farm animals and (most importantly, I think)some political writings that still r...more

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Nov 19, 2008 Rebecca rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I didn't know anything about E.B. White (other than he wrote Charlotte's Web) until I stayed last week in the E.B. White room at the Sylvia Beach Hotel. I truly enjoyed this book of E.B.'s essays from the time just before and during the first part of WWII. He was a great writer and thinker, and wrote about life on the farm in Maine, life and times, and how the world was changing and how it stayed the same. His irreverence for unclear thinking and ill-thought views was quite refreshing. I plan to...more

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Jun 25, 2012 Deborah rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

For those E.B. White readers who have thus far limited their reading enjoyment to his children’s classics, One Man’s Meat presents a perfect bridge to the author’s legacy of non-fiction writing. Spanning from July of 1938 to January of 1943, the 50+ short essays contained in this volume chronicle the author’s back-breaking “retreat” from the literary circles of Manhattan to a farming life in the country. As these entries straddle “pre-war” and “at war” periods in American history, the author’s h...more

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Mar 28, 2010 Claire rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: essays, memoir

While there is no denying White's excellence as a children's book writer, he is also a formidable personal essayist; in this collection, he plunges into the task of writing with an unstinting willingness to connect with readers, thereby exposing his vulnerability in the process. (And what can be more vulnerable than writing about the time you misunderstood a nurse's instructions and strolled into an x-ray room completely naked except for your shoes and garters?) Despite the delightful points of...more

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Jul 23, 2009 Yvonne rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

E.B. White of Charlotte's Web fame, wrote a series of essays - for Harper's Magazine - through the late '30s into the early '40's about his experiences living on a New England farm. His writing is excellent; this is a (timeless) classic in my opinion. It's fascinating too, that so much of what he writes about relates to us today - concerns of poor economic conditions, US at war and obsession with simplifying one's life - yet there are striking differences as well. I'd buy this for my bookshelves...more

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Jan 06, 2011 Sayce Falk rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The New Yorker calls it superb reading, but I'd call it transcendent. E.B. White makes owning a saltwater farm in remote Maine sound like the one and only good thing you could ever do in your life and I'm more than halfway to believing him. The essays begin in the late 30s and run through the mid 40s, so you get an almost month-by-month evolution of White's thoughts on the coming World War; but as good as his conceptual writing on nationalism, civic duty, democracy, and manhood are, the real spa...more

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Jul 03, 2008 Jennie rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was a great read! I could often be found chuckling as I read it during breaktimes at work. It was perfect for work because it's a collection of Essays that are only a few pages each. I could read a couple or so a day and not be consumed by burning questions like "Will she ever see him again?, What happened to the kindly old gentleman living downstairs?, Who murdered the butler's, neice's, half-sister's cat?, How did the chocolate cake end up in the dryer?".

I did have some trouble with the l...more

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Feb 27, 2013 Nranger7 rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Some parts of this book were really interesting and others were boring. Overally I liked it. It was neat to get an idea of everyday life in the US just before we got involved in WWII. Some aspects of this book were so old fashioned that I had to look things up online to get a better idea of what the author was talking about. (Which was fun for me rather than a chore.)

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Mar 27, 2013 Jackie Tilks rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I absolutely loved this book. I felt like I was staying in the guest room at E. B. White's saltwater farm as I read it and I was sad to come back home when it was over. Not only is he an amazing writer with beautiful connections between farm life and WWII, but his depiction of nature and agriculture make you feel as if you could smell the hay and the kindling in the fire. He is also really funny and honest. I found this book comforting because many of the issues he struggles with in the 1940s ar...more

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Nov 27, 2012 Chrismcginn rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A collection of columns/essays E.B. White for Harper's Bazaar in the early 40s while living on a New England saltwater farm. Other than Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little I had no idea he was such a prolific writer. Enjoyed the peak at life stateside in the war including his blackout warning runs, raising hens and sheep and other anecdotes.

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Dec 30, 2010 Rachel rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Collection of essays by E.B. White detailing his family's adjustment and life on a New England farm after moving there from New York City. It gives a good feel for the time period and lifestyle and discusses the run up to World War II and what that felt like. His humor entertains throughout. Some spots necessarily feel dated but enjoyable overall.

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Apr 03, 2007 Kathleen rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I've actually had this on my shelf for a long time and finally decided that I really needed to read some E. B. White. While I can't sit and read too many of these essays at one time, they are quite brilliant. A liberal man of the city who moves to live on a farm in Maine, White looks at the world as I wish more of us would--what is our impact on others and on our world? While he is writing his column for Harper's (this book is a collection of those commentaries) World War II is going on in Europ...more

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Sep 05, 2011 Amy rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I discovered this collection of essays on farming through Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac. Thank you, Mr. Keillor!

The timing was perfect. Here I am writing a column about my life in Alabama after years in New York City and along comes a collection of essays 60+ years old on White's move to a farm in Maine from New York City. His pieces are witty and insightful and informative and reflective. Originally published in Harper's Magazine as a column, the expanded collection includes several addi...more

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May 20, 2009 John rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Dipped in and out. It's that kind of book. Hard farming in Maine (how hard can it be? He's a successful writer for the New Yorker), home-spun wisdom, wry humor, some elegant essays. Definitely a lifetime ago, without cable TV, and where most cars mostly won't start on most cold mornings.

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Aug 03, 2011 Bill added it · review of another edition

It doesn't even matter what White writes about, if you want to read the clearest prose in modern English, pick up any book by him. But these essays put you in mind of getting a farm and raising chickens. A way of life that is now mostly gone is well-documented here.

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Dec 24, 2012 Michael Robinson rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

While it's not something I would file under "leisurely reading" (had to read this for my senior English class), One Man's Meat is without a doubt well-written and thought provoking; although it may prove to be a little slow to some readers.

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Apr 04, 2011 Thbarton rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

An amazing piece of prose that gives beauty to the simplicity of life on a farm in Maine. Meaning can be found in the smallest tasks of the day. Truly inspiring. This is the book that made me love to read.

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“There is another sort of day which needs celebrating in song -- the day of days when spring at last holds up her face to be kissed, deliberate and unabashed. On that day no wind blows either in the hills or in the mind.” — 17 people liked it

“Clubs, fraternities, nations -- these are the beloved barriers in the way of a workable world, these will have to surrender some of their rights and some of their ribs. A ‘fraternity’ is the antithesis of fraternity. The first (that is, the order or organization) is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is based on a feeling of total equality. Anyone who remembers back to his fraternity days at college recalls the enthusiasts in his group, the rabid members, both young and old, who were obsessed with the mystical charm of membership in their particular order. They were usually men who were incapable of genuine brotherhood, or at least unaware of its implications. Fraternity begins when the exclusion formula is found to be distasteful. The effect of any organization of a social and brotherly nature is to strengthen rather than diminish the lines which divide people into classes; the effects of states and nations is the same, and eventually these lines will have to be softened, these powers will have to be generalized.” — 9 people liked it

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