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📖: Local Flavors by Deborah Madison

I want to try a heirloom turkey

The average age of American farmers is 58 now (up from the 55 mentioned here)

~ Cooking lets you guard the door, controlling not only what goes into your food, but what stays out.

WIC is redeemable at farmers' markets?!

Do not thank people for plants in the southern Appalachian region!

~ April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too much, the world burgeons with promises it can't keep, all passion is really a setup, and we're doomed to get our hearts broken yet again.

~ When we walked as a nation away from the land, our knowledge of food production fell away from us like dirt in a laundry-soap commercial.

~ ...that's the only reality they witness as landscapers come to campuses and city parks and surreptitiously yank out one flower before it fades from its prime, replacing it with another.

Me: WHAT. How have I never noticed this??

Pre-read: It's a policy of mine to have at least one non-fiction read going at all times alongside my fiction reads. Since I've finished The Unthinkable, I'm picking this one up because I only have six days before it's due to the library. Reading this for a merit badge in the Proper Mountain Women Club!