Turkey Pic
Here's a picture of one of our turkeys. I don't know where he got the sign, but it sort of reminds me of that book, Click Clack Moo: Cows that Type. Have you seen that one? I love it. I redecorated the blog to look a little more back-to-school/fall-ish. I love the red plaid in the background. I need a dress in a cotton print just like that.
My latest book is The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture, by Wendell Berry. I have taken to reading a lot of agrarian philosophy-type books lately. This one is excellent so far. Also, I never did review that Nina Planck book. I think it's called Real Food: What to Eat and Why. Well, it's been a month or two since I read it, so I can't get really specific as far as reviewing it, but it was an excellent book and worth looking up at the library if you are interested in cooking with fresh ("real") ingredients. Joel Salatin also has a new book out I would love to get: Everything I Want to Do is Illegal (link is to an article he wrote a while back with the same title - it's a pdf file). Provocative title, isn't it? Doesn't it just make you want to pick it up and read the whole thing cover to cover?
3 Comments:
Reading a book like this is pretty impressive, Amey. I would have sworn (from the title) that it was a book written by Jack Handey. How wrong I was. The author is obviously a subversive. Beware of these types. You may end up in the American gulog or worse. Seriously, isn't it amazing how different America today is, agriculturallly, from what it was just 40 years ago?
That's gulag, Dad, gulag.
Yes, agriculture is much much different from the way it used to be. Today you can grow one (or both!) of two crops: corn or soybeans. Yahoo. Joel Salatin's writing is a hoot, and every bit of it on target. I have his book Holy Cows and Hog Heaven if you are interested.
Gulag, "smoolag", that's what I say. I might be interested in taking a look at "Holy Cows and Hog Heaven". Don't know if I'd be able to actually READ the whole thing, but I'll check it out.
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