TY - BOOK AU - Timmermeister,Kurt TI - Growing a feast: the chronicle of a farm-to-table meal SN - 9780393088892 (hardcover) AV - TX649.T45 A3 2014 KW - Timmermeister, Kurt. KW - Timmermeister, Kurt KW - Dinners and dining KW - Washington (State) KW - Vashon Island KW - Cooking KW - Dairy products KW - Cooks KW - Biography KW - Dairy farmers KW - Agriculture KW - Vashon Island (Wash.) KW - Social life and customs N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -