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Living Seasonally: The Kitchen Garden and the Table at North Hill (Hardcover)

by Joe Eck (Author), Wayne Winterrowd (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Henry Holt & Company (April 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0805047867
  • ISBN-13: 978-0805047868
  • Product Dimensions: 26.2 x 20 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,290,923 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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After 20-plus years of tutelage at the feet of Vermont's seasons, landscape designers and authors Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd have mastered the art of living in tune with the seasons. This means eating what's ripe in the garden--there's no freezing and very little canning at North Hill--when it's ripe. The meditative, ardent Living Seasonally: The Kitchen Garden and the Table at North Hill describes this life hitched to the wax and wane of the seasons.

Eck and Winterrowd go into luxurious detail on the tiniest aspects of horticultural and barnyard life. These two are passionate and effective teachers--so much so that, by page 43, the reader fully understands their characterisation of pumpkin vines as "as wayward as vegetable guineas," a reference to the hen with a mind of its own. We--even those of us who've never sprouted a seed or hoed a row--get it. But some of the most rewarding passages in Living Seasonally are those that ruminate on the inevitable blending of the spiritual with the prosaic, as in this reflection on Vermont pumpkin pie, made with maple syrup from their own trees:

We begin our syruping when the buds of the maples are tight-furled, hardly more than sharp, dull- green points along the bare stems ... By the time the pumpkins have been selected and sown, the leaves of the maples will have hardened into the thick shade of summer ... When the maple leaves have turned transparent again, all into orange and tawny yellow, the pumpkins must be gathered to cure in the warmth of the house. As they lie in heaps and piles, their colours reflect the autumn garden and are a fit emblem of the season. An emblem, too, is the pie they make, where beginning and end and all the processes in between are caught up in a perfect round.
This book will captivate both the avid gardener-cook with its recipes and techniques for planting and seed selection, and the city-dweller searching for the answer to why it's impossible to find tomatoes that taste like tomatoes in January. --Stefanie Durbin

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5.0 out of 5 stars Quietly beautiful, useful, 20 Aug 1999
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Although I enjoyed their first book, this one kindled my gardening fires. As always, their writing is top notch -- polished and seamless. I cannot detect whether it is one writing about pumpkins ("as wayward as vegetable guineas") and the other about onions ("connecting us to all that has gone on before"). It doesn't matter. What does matter is that once started I had no choice but to slow down and savor every page, every wonderful photograph. Yet for all its beauty, I also had to fight a compulsion to underline portions, to write notes in the margins. I can't recall the last time a gardening book made me feel so inclined. I appreciated their candor as well, especially about raising livestock for food (they do -- I couldn't), their diet (they confess to eating red meat) and even an "occasional smoke." I hope I have the good sense to return to "Living Seasonally" not just when I'm thinking about new tomato varieties but also when my harried pace has my priorities out of kilter. For in these calm and gentle pages I found reminders about why I garden and the affinities I share with those who delight in growing plants.
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