Grace Firth (1922–2004)
Autor de Stillroom Cookery: The Art of Preserving Foods Naturally, With Recipes, Menus, and Metric Measures
Obras de Grace Firth
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1922-08-16
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2004-07-29
- Género
- female
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- San Antonio, Texas, USA
Miembros
Reseñas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 5
- Miembros
- 83
- Popularidad
- #218,811
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 7
Written nearly forty years ago, this is the equivalent of the farmwife's blog -- the woman who raises and homeschools children while growing vegetables, canning and preserving fruit, raising chickens and gathering eggs -- all neatly presented on a Wordpress blog with beautifully lit photographs of the products of her labor. It's hard to believe this book was written so recently -- one almost envisions it as written by some pioneer wife a la Laura Ingalls. While I appreciate the hard work and labor of the pioneer and farming women, I feel it has been cheapened by the advent of trends in country living, held up as some pristine standard to which those hoping to live a green, sustainable life must aspire to attain. However, the details of food procurement, preservation, and presentation are wonderful, though they do serve as a further reminder just how detached and unaware we are presently of the processing of our food.… (más)