Spring Warren is the author of the novel Turpentine, a bronze medalist for the 2007 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award and a San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book of 2007. Warren comes from Wyoming, where here family has lived since 1870. A true gal of the American West, she grew up in Casper and at a ranch in the Black Hills that her parents still own. She's been a schoolteacher (children bring cow testicles to school for show and tell in Wyoming), raised pigs, killed rattlesnakes, hunted, and fished. When she moved toward writing, she was a working as a short order cook, selling worms and maple bars to campers, and teaching swimming lessons in the shadow of Devil's Tower, and was living in a trailer where she washed clothes in a wringer washer and dried them by the heat of the wood stove.Warren now lives in Davis, California, an educational hub of the agricultural world, in the Central Valley, the world's most productive agricultural region.
"Finally, a book about local eating that doesn't make me feel bad
about myself! Warren entirely avoids the genre's stinky mire of
holier than thou preaching, and instead tells the honest and
informative story of her edible experiment. The recipes following
each chapter are tasty, and the illustrations are stunningly
beautiful."
Novella Carpenter, author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban
Farmer
Reading Spring Warren s book is like chatting with a good friend
over coffee as she relates her garden adventures (some hilarious)
and muses on the meaning of almost everything. This is an
instructive, useful book, based on sound garden experience and
in-depth research, and it s an intimate tale of one woman s
relationship to food and family.
Georgeanne Brennan, author of Potager: Fresh Garden Cooking in the
French Style and A Pig in Provence
Spring Warren s memoir of a year feeding her family from her
suburban garden resonates with the American dream of
self-sufficiencywhat she comes to know of growing food is
impressive, the recipes superband it is beautifully written,
enlightening, and very funny.
John Lescroart, New York Times best-selling author
"A wise and tender-hearted book that will teach you as much about
life as it will about gardening."
Thrity Umrigar, best-selling author of The Space Between Us and The
Weight of Heaven
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