More on urban farming
My new Bookforum column is live today, and featured on the Bookforum home page as the Daily Review, so you can access it here or here. Whee! It’s about three urban farming memoirs–one by a former drag queen, one by a Brooklyn journalist, and one set in inner-city Oakland, CA. If that combination (or at [...]
Friday Food Writers: Farm Writer Edition, Novella Carpenter
I’m working on my next column for Bookforum, which is about urban farmers (including one former drag queen named Aqua….stay tuned!). One of the books I’m reading is about a year old but it’s so good and interesting I’m including it anyway (plus it’s just out in paperback). Novella Carpenter’s Farm City: The Education of [...]
Slaughterhouses and small farms
One of the issues I never gave much thought to before writing Eating for Beginners was slaughterhouses–by which I mean how many there are, where they’re located, and what kind of red tape they have to deal with to process meat. Like many people, I was more concerned with how my meat was raised than [...]
Locally slaughtered meat
Today I’m doing the last little edits on the chapters of Eating for Beginners (now set to come out next July, by the way) in which I write about spending time at the small Vermont farm where I met Lucy and Oliver, helping them tend to cows, sheep, goats and veal calves. One of the [...]
East Hill Farm: inside the small farm start-up
I’ve been meaning for a while now to post about East Hill Farm in Andover, VT a new operation being run by the young couple who were farm hands at one of the places I worked doing research for Eating for Beginners. Since then, they’ve moved on and they’re now deep into their first season [...]
