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Four Seasons in Five Senses: Things Worth Savoring
Rushing from one thing to another, we lose sight of the art of living, which for California farmer David Mas Masumoto is also the art of farming. Not fast farming, of the kind that produces fast food, but slow farming, the kind that notices each change of light and temperature and produces peaches with juice that runs down your chin.
On the farm, appreciating the fruits of...more
On the farm, appreciating the fruits of...more
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
January 17th 2004
by W. W. Norton & Company
(first published January 2003)
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I enjoyed this book and the poetic writing style of Masumoto. His many metaphores brought to mind lessons for life, not to mention a strong desire to eat a peach! Growing up in a farming community with orchards and large gardens, I could relate to many of the essays and my mind was continually flooded with childhood memories. It was a timely reminder for me that there are things in life that cannot and should not be rushed. It is worth while to slow down and experience life with all five senses....more
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Old farm
Ripe peach leaps
Kur plop
(p. 98)
I begin my review of Four Seasons in Five Senses with the haiku David Mas Masumoto uses to end his chapter "Sound of a Ripe Peach." It sums up the contemplative nature of this book about running a family farm in California perfectly.
David Mas Masumoto is a third generation peach and raisin farmer in California. His book chronicles his life and work on the farm through the seasons as experienced by each of the five senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell an...more
Ripe peach leaps
Kur plop
(p. 98)
I begin my review of Four Seasons in Five Senses with the haiku David Mas Masumoto uses to end his chapter "Sound of a Ripe Peach." It sums up the contemplative nature of this book about running a family farm in California perfectly.
David Mas Masumoto is a third generation peach and raisin farmer in California. His book chronicles his life and work on the farm through the seasons as experienced by each of the five senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell an...more
This seems like it will be a little boring.... But maybe it will make me think about farming differently.
ok. I stopped about 2/3 of the way through. I got too bored.
His essays are well written, but I'm not that interested in how he has to listen for where to drive his tractor when he's still tractoring when the sun sets (you know, like a bat uses echolocation! yeah!).
It was "ok" but as much as I like well-written food/garden/farm books, this didn't do it for me.
ok. I stopped about 2/3 of the way through. I got too bored.
His essays are well written, but I'm not that interested in how he has to listen for where to drive his tractor when he's still tractoring when the sun sets (you know, like a bat uses echolocation! yeah!).
It was "ok" but as much as I like well-written food/garden/farm books, this didn't do it for me.
Oct 27, 2008
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A California fruit farmer pays homage to the life of the senses: smell that knows when a peach is ready to be picked; sight that observes the health of a season’s crop; touch that measures the weight of a fruit; hearing that recognizes each voice that calls out across the fields; and taste that savors the refreshing tang of a fruit at that perfect moment of ripeness.
Nice to read about organic peach farming in Feb in VT, but I think his writing is repetitive. I have, however, tasted his peaches and they really are unbelievably good!
Jun 16, 2007
Shrimpshrub
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3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
anyone who want to hear peaches described for a couple hundred pages
He really should have stuck to farming. Still, anytime someone want to write a book almost entirely about peaches, I'll probably read it. He does grow some damn fine fruit.
Absoulutely fabulous book
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