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Leslie Land

Born

February 22, 1947

Died

August 10, 2013

Website

http://leslieland.com/

Genre

Cooking, Food & Wine, Home & Garden

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Decades of garden articles, 8 years of weekly garden columns in The New York Times and a co-starring role in the book and TV series The 3000 Mile Garden mean I’m best known as a garden writer, someone lucky enough to call talking about plants her work.

True. But only half of the story. The other half starts with my first real job – as one of the opening chefs at Chez Panisse, in Berkeley, California.

Less than two years later, I joined the great hippie migration of the early 1970′s and moved to rural Maine, where making a living meant catering, consulting, being a guest chef and – finally! – saying “thanks but no thanks, eager backers, I don’t want a restaurant. It’s more fun to write about food.”

And write and write and write: food and cookin ...more

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Average rating: 4.05 · 207 ratings · 28 reviews · 8 distinct works

	The 3,000 Mile Garden: An Exchange of Letters on Gardening, Food, and the Good Life by Roger Phillips, Leslie Land 3.82 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New York Times 1000 Gardening Questions and Answers: Based on the Column "Gardeners Q. & A by Leslie Land (Editor), Linda Yang, Elayne Sears (Illustrator) 4.21 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Sustainable Table by Robert Clark (Editor), Paul Gruchow (Contributor), Will Weaver (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.25 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New England Epicure: Reading Between the Recipes 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1987 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yankee New England Cookbook: More Than 160 Recipes for Every Season really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Modern Country Cook 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Appearing of Jesus 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The 3,000 Mile Garden: An Exchange of Letters on Gardening, Food, and the Good Life 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Spiders evidently as surprised by the weather as the rest of us: their webs were still everywhere - little silken laundry lines with perfect snowflakes hung out in rows to dry.”
― Leslie Land, The 3,000 Mile Garden: An Exchange of Letters on Gardening, Food, and the Good Life

tags: snow, spiders, winter, woods

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“There's something about these obscure vignettes of former lives that's very powerful. Our woods are full of old cellar holes, tumbled-down chimneys, ancient scraggly lilacs absurdly tall still stretching toward the light.”
― Leslie Land, The 3,000 Mile Garden: An Exchange of Letters on Gardening, Food, and the Good Life

tags: cellar, forgotten, history, land, woods

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