The Land of Milk and Uncle Honey: Memories from the Farm of My Youth
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.86 (507 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0252080947 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 152 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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I recommend this book to anyone who wants to hear the story of food from someone who has been following it for the last three decades." --Danielle Nierenberg, President, Food Tank"Alan is a rare gift to farmers and non-farmers alike since he provides down-home wisdom that helps us all make sense of the important, but often misunderstood food and farm issues. “The romance of farm life and the reality of farm life have very little in common. The Land of Milk and Uncle Honey is a treasure--the best of the best." --Fred Kirschenmann, author of Cultivating an Ecological Conscience"A wonderful piece of work. With humor and honesty Guebert tells like it is--and gives his read
Heartwarming recollections Sheron Caywood-Smith I chose this book because I began reading Mr. Gueberts column in the local Sunday paper. I enjoyed the columns immensely and I have enjoyed the book just as much or more. Unknown at the time my husband and I drove through Illinois right past his parents farm on a trip to Kentucky, in the fall of 2014 this was before we started to read his column. That has made reading the book even more enjoyable, because . Five Stars love it. A Must-Read for Rural Families If you grew up on a family farm, large or small, and you are looking for memory-triggers of that experience, I have one piece of advice: BUY THIS BOOK! Guebert and his daughter, Mary Grace Foxwell, have compiled the best of his columns in Farm and Food File that deal with his boyhood on a dairy farm in southern Illinois. You will meet "the lovely Catherine," his wife, his Lutheran family, one hundred Holst
In this collection, Alan Guebert and his daughter-editor Mary Grace Foxwell recall Guebert's years on the land working as part of that all-consuming collaborative effort known as the family farm.Here are Guebert's tireless parents, measuring the year not in months but in seasons for sewing, haying, and doing the books; Jackie the farmhand, needing ninety minutes to do sixty minutes' work and cussing the entire time; Hoard the dairyman, sore fingers wrapped in electrician's tape, sharing wine and the prettiest Christmas tree ever; and the unflappable Uncle Honey, spreading mayhem via mistreated machinery, flipped wagons, and the careless union of diesel fuel and fire.Guebert's heartfelt and humorous reminiscences depict the hard labor and simple pleasures to be found in ennobling work, and show that in life, as in farming, Uncle Honey had it right with his succinct philosophy for overcoming adversity: "the secret's not to stop."https://youtube/watch?v=DooGQqUlXI4&;index=1&list=FLPxtuez-lmHxi5zpooYEnBg. Bon Appetit Magazine's 20 Food Books to Read This Summer Los Ang