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Sto caricando le informazioni... Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese (originale 2009; edizione 2010)di Brad Kessler (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaGoat Song: A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese di Brad Kessler (2009)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. It was an interesting telling of one couple's experience starting a goat farm, and the journey to cheese making. ( ) Loved this. I read it with quiet mind, savoring it in small tastes. Can a book have terroir? If so this one does. From page one: "Herding is a way of doing something while doing nothing; it asks only for one's presence, awake, watching animals and earth. "Wind rakes the trees. Clouds float shadows through the grass. We enter the woods and the goats eat ash, birch, and maple. This evening I'll milk the does back in the barn and when the sun goes down I'll make an aged cheese from their milk called a 'tomme'. Months from now when snow covers the mountains, I'll open that 'tomme' and find this day again inside its rind: the aromatic grass, the leaves, this wind." nonfiction (goat cheese farmer memoir) The first half was really good--easy to read and full of humble comforts and idyllic pleasures. The second half was okay, but the author flattered himself by trying to be philosophical and introspective in an interesting way (it really wasn't that interesting). I also thought he took almost all of the credit when the goat farm was clearly a joint partnership between him and his wife Dona. (He mentions a lot of goat farming neighbors and acquaintances, but skims over Dona's contributions, except to say that she did some of the milking, and was present while decisions were made. This could have been 4 stars but I am docking a star for the reasons listed above. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Acclaimed novelist Brad Kessler lived in New York City but longed for a life on the land where he could grow his own food. After years of searching for a home, he and his wife, photographer Dona Ann McAdams, found a mountain farmhouse on a dead-end road, with seventy-five acres of land. One day, when Dona returned home with fresh goat milk from a neighbor's farm, Kessler made a fresh chèvre, and their life changed forever. They decided to raise dairy goats and make cheese. Goat Song tells about what it's like to live intimately with animals who directly feed you. As Kessler begins to live the life of a herder -- learning how to care for and breed and birth goats -- he encounters the pastoral roots of so many aspects of Western culture. Kessler reflects on the history and literature of herding, and how our diet, our alphabet, our religions, poetry, and economy all grew out of a pastoralist milieu among hoofed animals. Kessler and his wife adapt to a life governed by their goats and the rhythm of the seasons. And their goats give back in immeasurable ways, as Kessler proves to be a remarkable cheesemaker, with his first tomme of goat cheese winning lavish praise from America's premier cheese restaurants. In the tradition of Thoreau's Walden and Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Goat Song is both a spiritual quest and a compelling and beautiful chronicle of living by nature's rules. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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