Ask TracyFood: yay for book questions! 13 July 2007 11:21 pm
Posted by Tracy in : vegan, advice, politics, agriculture, cheese, books, vegetarian, Michael Pollan, friends , 1 comment so farI was going to do a Foto Friday today, all about the delicious cheese I brought back from my trip to the Netherlands last month, and maybe even the sandwich I made with some of it on Monday, but Penny wrote me and she said it would be cool if I based an Ask TracyFood entry on my response: (more…)
One last big Michael Pollan quotation 22 June 2007 6:51 pm
Posted by Tracy in : work, garden, environment, agriculture, Michael Pollan, books , add a commentTracy 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….
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From “The Harvest”
I ended yesterday’s post by quoting a stirring bit of rhetoric about getting down to the work of the land, and that is exactly what Pollan describes at the beginning of chapter 8 of Second Nature, the beginning of the Fall section: the overwhelming, bittersweet work of gathering late summer and fall garden abundance. (more…)
On “The Idea of a Garden” by Michael Pollan 21 June 2007 6:54 pm
Posted by Tracy in : garden, reviews, environment, Michael Pollan, books , add a commentTracy 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…. (more…)
From “Planting a Tree” 20 June 2007 7:00 pm
Posted by Tracy in : garden, reviews, Michael Pollan, books , add a commentTracy 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….
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Excerpt from Chapter 9 of Michael Pollan’s Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education (more…)
Book review: “Second Nature” by Michael Pollan 19 June 2007 6:13 pm
Posted by Tracy in : reviews, politics, garden, seasonality, school, Michael Pollan, identity, books , add a commentTracy 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….
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From Second Nature by Michael Pollan:
Of course, a real green thumb would have done everything I did without having to think about it so much. But you have to start somewhere…. Only much later does it become second nature. Now, I get it — indeed, can no longer imagine not getting it — and from here on I’ll probably grow fine carrots without a moment’s reflection, no bigger a deal than riding a bike. So maybe that is what a green thumb is, a particular form of memory: a compendium of little stories that have been distilled to the point where the gardener can draw on their lessons without even thinking about it — the morals of these stories (most of which are about his own experiences, but some of which may be secondhand) are always at his fingertips.
