Growing a feast : the chronicle of a farm-to-table meal /

Timmermeister, Kurt.

Growing a feast : the chronicle of a farm-to-table meal / Kurt Timmermeister. - First edition. - 310 pages ; 22 cm

Includes index.

Introduction: The feast is established -- Two years before the meal : the birth of a calf -- Eighteen months before : the hard cheese is made -- The cheese cave and the aging of the cheese -- Early planting in the garden -- Nine months before : Alice is bred -- Springtime on the farm -- Summer arrives -- Preparation for dinner begins -- Two weeks before : Alice calves -- Four days before : foraging and harvesting -- Milk, cream and butter -- Saturday morning : Tyler arrives -- Saturday afternoon : dinner preparation is finished -- The guests arrive, the feast begins -- The second half of dinner -- Appendix: Recipes.

A restaurateur details the hard work involved with starting a dairy farm and describes a feast that was two years in the making, using only vegetables he harvested and animals he raised to supply the meal.

9780393088892 (hardcover) 0393088898 (hardcover)

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Timmermeister, Kurt.
Timmermeister, Kurt--Homes and haunts--Washington (State)--Vashon Island.
Timmermeister, Kurt--Friends and associates.


Dinners and dining--Washington (State)--Vashon Island.
Cooking--Washington (State)--Vashon Island.
Dairy products--Washington (State)--Vashon Island.
Cooks--Washington (State)--Vashon Island--Biography.
Dairy farmers--Washington (State)--Vashon Island--Biography.
Agriculture--Washington (State)--Vashon Island.


Vashon Island (Wash.)--Social life and customs.

TX649.T45 / A3 2014

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