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Haspel, Tamar, author.

To boldly grow : finding joy, adventure, and dinner in your own backyard / Tamar Haspel.

New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2022]

xxii, 246 pages ; 22 cm

"Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food meets Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle in this part memoir, part how-to guide by Tamar Haspel (author of the Washington Post column Unearthed) about the unexpected joys of what she calls "first-hand food"--meals we grow, forage, fish, or even hunt from the world around us."-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes index.

Prologue: The first first-hand food -- We begin unsoiled -- Plants everlasting -- Shiitakes happen -- Coop dreams -- Chicken out -- Fear of falling (in) -- One fish, two fish, start with bluefish -- Practicing shellfishness -- One of these fish is not like the others -- Thrills and skills -- See salt form. Form, salt, form! -- It grows by the wayside -- Acornucopia -- Insert fungus joke here -- Foraging's low-hanging fruit -- Poultry in motion -- Pluck U. -- Pick your poultry -- When a gatherer hunts -- Deer me -- Epilogue: Dinner, which is the point.

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