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Bringing it to the table : on farming and food / Wendell Berry ; introduction by Michael Pollan

Berry, Wendell, 1934- (Author).

Summary:

Long before organic produce was available at your local supermarket, Wendell Berry was farming and writing with the purity of food in mind. For the last five decades, he has embodied mindful eating through his land practices and his writing. In recognition of Berry's influence, Michael Pollan offers an introduction to this new collection. "To read the essays in this sparkling anthology," he writes, "many of them dating back to the 1970s and 1980s, is to realize just how little of what we are saying and hearing today Wendall Berry hasn't already said, bracingly before."

Record details

ISBN: 9781582435435
ISBN: 158243543X
Physical Description: xvi, 234 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher: Berkeley : Counterpoint, [2009]
Copyright: ℗♭2009

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references

Formatted Contents Note:

Nature as a measure -- Stupidity in concentration -- Agricultural solutions for agricultural problems -- A defense of the family farm -- Let the farm judge -- Energy in agriculture -- Conservationist and agrarian -- Sanitation and the small farm -- Renewing husbandry -- Seven Amish farms -- A good farmer of the old school -- Charlie Fisher -- A talent for necessity -- Elmer Lapp's place -- On The soil and health -- Agriculture from the roots up -- Author's note -- From That distant land -- From Hannah Coulter -- From Andy Catlett -- From "Misery" -- From The memory of Old Jack -- From Jayber Crow -- From Hannah Coulter -- The pleasures of eating