"A charming ode (with recipes) to eating well and locally, on $40 dollars per week, from a recently unemployed food-journalism veteran. In 2009, Robin Mather found herself unemployed. She consequently moved to rural Michigan, where she committed to eating three home-cooked, seasonal, and local meals a day. In essays that chronicle a year of her ambitious project, Mather explores the confusion surrounding local eating and examines how often we fail to pay attention to the seasons that surround us. With 150 winning recipes such as Lemon-Tarragon Pickled asparagus and Greek-Marinated Grilled Leg of Lamb, Mather draws on her rich kitchen knowledge, honed by years as a food writer. This narrative-cookbook hybrid shares encouraging advice for aspiring locavores, offering both the virtues of kitchen thrift and the pleasures of cooking well"--
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Less memoir and more recipe book/how-to than I was expecting. However, I appreciated the simple staple recipes included, and how they are arranged seasonally. I especially liked her practical approach to making do each week and month, and how it didn't ever mean the quality of her meals suffered. Indeed, the quality and meaning seems to increase exponentially as she gets closer to her sources and builds community. The tips she offers are very actionable, and I hope to slowly begin incorporating many of them into my own life.
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