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A Book for the Lovers of Local Food and Wine
For colorful stories of the farmers, vintners and others in Sonoma who have attracted us to their bounty of local food, read the delightful new book by Sonoma State University communications professor Jonah Raskin, Field Days.
Writes Powell book reviewer Regan McMahon, "...about to turn 65, decided he needed to get in touch with the earth and explore his rural surroundings. 'Before it was too late,' he writes in Field Days, the account of his yearlong journey among the organic farmers, farmworkers and winemakers of Sonoma County. 'Before life passed me by....I wanted to regain something I had lost, and to work alongside men and women who were cultivating the earth. I wanted to eat as though for the first time, with a sense of newness.'
Part scholarly research, part you-are-there journalism and part memoir, his book is filled with stories of people's lives, heritage and motivations for working the land the way they do. We meet chefs, restaurateurs, farmers' market produce vendors and organic grocers - such a dizzying cast of characters that some readers may grow weary. But each one's story is illuminating. Raskin explicitly makes the connection between what we buy at the store or eat at the restaurant and who grew it, picked it and delivered it to your table."
Writes Powell book reviewer Regan McMahon, "...about to turn 65, decided he needed to get in touch with the earth and explore his rural surroundings. 'Before it was too late,' he writes in Field Days, the account of his yearlong journey among the organic farmers, farmworkers and winemakers of Sonoma County. 'Before life passed me by....I wanted to regain something I had lost, and to work alongside men and women who were cultivating the earth. I wanted to eat as though for the first time, with a sense of newness.'
Part scholarly research, part you-are-there journalism and part memoir, his book is filled with stories of people's lives, heritage and motivations for working the land the way they do. We meet chefs, restaurateurs, farmers' market produce vendors and organic grocers - such a dizzying cast of characters that some readers may grow weary. But each one's story is illuminating. Raskin explicitly makes the connection between what we buy at the store or eat at the restaurant and who grew it, picked it and delivered it to your table."
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