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Botany, Ballet & Dinner from Scratch: A Memoir with Recipes
Written with a profound respect for the earth, Meredith reveals ways of remaining connected to nature, including the sources of her food, while living a busy city life. Nowadays, many urbanites yearn for the locavore lifestyle. Meredith actually demonstrates the joys and travails of living it like preserving food in jars that were stored for months beneath her bed, as she...more
Paperback, 139 pages
Published
July 1st 2008
by Heliotrope
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Fantastic book by a woman living in Brooklyn (the hometown of my ancestors, I've just learned), who forages for dandelion weeds and other edibles in the city. She hatches a plan to eat locally (within a 250 mile radius) for one year, and she shares the pleasures and challenges of her experiment with us. As for me, I'm growing lovely tomato, eggplant, squash, and pepper plants in an abundant container garden, and I have plentiful Dandelions growing around the edge of my house....so I'm going to t...more
Leda Meredith offers us a tasting menu of remembrances and food. Don't worry. It isn't Proust. But, it's a slim and lovely volume, complete with Meredith's thoughts on environment, food and sustainability. Questioning the role of food, environment and nature, in our modern, technologically-driven lives, Meredith has stepped off the treadmill to offer us, an almost urban guerilla's manual to living in the present and with one-ness to an Earth we neglect to see. Quite lovely. This book is like sip...more
This memoir was written by my foraging instructor. Its part memoir, part response to Animal, Vegetable, Mineral since she spent a year in Brooklyn eating food produced within 250 miles. Lots of recipes and anecdotes.
Parts were wonderful but the stories did not all carry the same depth of feeling.
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