Growing a feast : the chronicle of a farm-to-table meal / Kurt Timmermeister.
Material type: TextEdition: First editionDescription: 310 pages ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780393088892 (hardcover)
- 0393088898 (hardcover)
- 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
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Lending Books | Elisabeth C. Miller Library Pacific Northwest Connections Collection | S501.2 .T56 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39352800145138 |
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.