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	<description>Harvesting books about growing &#38; eating real food</description>
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		<title>Twain&#8217;s Feast by Andrew Beahrs</title>
		<link>http://www.farmbrarian.com/2010/06/29/book-review-twains-feast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston bacon and beans, Cutthroat trout from Lake Tahoe, and Philadelphia terrapin soup are just a few entries on Mark Twain&#8217;s list of more than 80 favorite foods. Author Andrew Beahrs not only prepares meals of some of Twain&#8217;s favorite dishes, he also traces Twain&#8217;s life&#8217;s journey in order to understand the great author&#8217;s experiences [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Seasons on Henry&#8217;s Farm by Terra Brockman</title>
		<link>http://www.farmbrarian.com/2010/06/23/the-seasons-on-henrys-farm-book-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Illinois is known for its vast fields of corn and soybeans. But nestled in the Mackinaw River Valley, somewhere in between the cities of Peoria and Bloomington, lays Henry’s Farm. The farm is small and diversified with more than 650 varieties of produce being grown each year on 10 acres of land—a stark contrast to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Field Days by Jonah Raskin</title>
		<link>http://www.farmbrarian.com/2010/02/10/book-review-field-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Local eating]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jonah Raskin’s Field Days: A Year of Farming, Eating and Drinking Wine in California (2009) is a poetic love letter to Sonoma County. Readers will most definitely fall hard for the area’s agricultural history, idyllic landscape, hard-working people and fresh food as described by Raskin. The memoir recounts a year’s worth of experiences traveling throughout [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back from the Land by Eleanor Agnew</title>
		<link>http://www.farmbrarian.com/2010/01/18/book-review-back-from-the-land/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like those who went back to the land in the widespread movement of the 1970’s, more and more people are now attempting to live self-sufficient lifestyles in cities and countrysides alike. For anyone captivated by the idea of breaking with mainstream society to pursue an agrarian lifestyle, this book will greatly pique your interest. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farm City by Novella Carpenter</title>
		<link>http://www.farmbrarian.com/2009/12/06/book-review-farm-city-by-novella-carpenter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Farmbrarian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oakland]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every sentence of Novella Carpenter’s Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer (2009) is marinated in the perfect combination of humor, eloquence, grit and ghetto. Once you start reading, you won’t be able to stop. The story chronicles the author’s successes and failures while farming an abandoned plot of land in a crime-ridden part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald</title>
		<link>http://www.farmbrarian.com/2009/10/25/the-egg-and-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“First make sure that your husband is doing the kind of work he enjoys and is best fitted for and then cheerfully accept whatever it entails.” –Mother And thus begins the hilarious tale of Betty MacDonald as she recounts her time on the rugged coast of the Pacific Northwest where her husband decides to build [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Epitaph for a Peach by David Mas Masumoto</title>
		<link>http://www.farmbrarian.com/2009/10/14/epitaph-for-a-peach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Mas Masumoto’s 1995 book Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm won the Julia Child Cookbook Award for literary food writing; was a nominee in the writing on food category of the James Beard Foundation Awards; and received the San Francisco Chronicle’s Critics Choice Award. The praise is well deserved. Epitaph [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Home to Eat by Gary Paul Nabhan</title>
		<link>http://www.farmbrarian.com/2009/09/18/coming-home-to-eat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Farmbrarian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Local eating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Memoir]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.farmbrarian.com/?p=67</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Gary Paul Nabhan&#8217;s book about his year long local eating experiment gives readers good insight into Nabhan&#8217;s personal life, but surprisingly little information about his local eating foray. For one year, Nabhan plans to prepare 80% of his meals using foods grown within a few hundred miles of his Arizona home. This is certainly a [...]]]></description>
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