Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food
Introduction by Michael Pollan\ Long Before Organic Produce was Available at Your Local Supermarket. Wendell Berry was farming and writing with the purity of food in mind. For the last five decades, he has embodied mindful eating through his land practices and his writing. In recognition of Berry's influence, Michael Pollan offers an introduction to this new collection. "To read the essays in this sparkling anthology," he writes, "many of them dating back to the 1970s and 1980s, is to realize...
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Only a farmer could delve so deeply into the origins of food, and only a writer of Wendell Berry’s caliber could convey it with such conviction and eloquence. Long before Whole Foods organic produce was available at your local supermarket, Berry was farming with the purity of food in mind. For the last five decades, Berry has embodied mindful eating through his land practices and his writing. In recognition of that influence, Michael Pollan here offers an introduction to this wonderful collection.Drawn from over thirty years of work, this collection joins bestsellers The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Pollan, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver, as essential reading for anyone who cares about what they eat. The essays address such concerns as: How does organic measure up against locally grown? What are the differences between small and large farms, and how does that affect what you put on your dinner table? What can you do to support sustainable agriculture?A progenitor of the Slow Food movement, Wendell Berry reminds us all to take the time to understand the basics of what we ingest. “Eating is an agriculture act,” he writes. Indeed, we are all players in the food economy.
Introduction ixPart I FarmingNature as Measure 3Stupidity in Concentration 11Agricultural Solutions for Agricultural Problems 19A Defense of the Family Farm 31Let the Farm Judge 49Energy in Agriculture 57Conservationist and Agrarian 67Sanitation and the Small Farm 81Renewing Husbandry 87Part II FarmersSeven Amish Farms 105A Good Farmer of the Old School 119Charlie Fisher 129A Talent for Necessity 139Elmer Lapp's Place 149On The Soil and Health 161Agriculture from the Roots Up 173Part III FoodAuthor's Note 185From That Distant Land 187From Hannah Coulter 195From Andy Catlett 201From "Misery" 211From The Memory of Old Jack 213From Jayber Crow 221From Hannah Coulter 225The Pleasures of Eating 227
