Monkey Monday: remote-controlled vacation week edition! 18 June 2007 1:27 pm
Posted by Tracy in : books,garden,Marion Nestle,meta,Michael Pollan,school , trackbackTracy is on vacation. You can read all about it at Van Boothe Tandem Adventures. Regularly-scheduled non-vacation TracyFood posts will be back on Monday, July 9. Meanwhile….
If you are reading this, it means I successfully set TracyFood up to automatically post a few entries I prepared in advance, which is pretty amazing if I do say so myself — both the fact that I had a few entries worth of writing to post, and the fact that I worked the WordPress ninjitsu requied to get them all set up and ready to rock while I’m out on my adventures in the Netherlands with Peter and the Pushmi-Pullyu.
Anyway, if you tune in this week, you’ll get to read all about my responses to Michael Pollan’s Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education, which I read for my Urban Farm class last term. I chose it out of the many piles of recommended book report subjects because I enjoyed two of Pollan’s other books, The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s Eye View of the World and The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, and was once again rewarded by entertaining writing on a subject I care deeply about — gardening. I also read (and enjoyed and reviewed) Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver and family, and finished Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm by David Mas Matsumoto, but that last didn’t inspire me to write anything. I didn’t do quite as well with some of the other books I tried to read last term, including (unfortunately) Safe Food by Marion Nestle, which I’m still working on, and the by now much-maligned by me Coming Home to Eat by Gary Paul Nabham.
I plan to post my Second Nature review in three parts: one big overview on Tuesday, and then three big quotations with extensive Tracy comments on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. If everything appears successfully, I will be very proud of myself indeed.
