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Imagine savoring the taste of your own homegrown tomato, fresh from the vine, in February! How about harvesting fresh organic salad greens year-round, or stepping into a blossom-laden tropical paradise on the coldest of winter days? Today, greenhouses and sunrooms are real living spaces where gardeners spend as much time with a book and a cup of coffee as they do with a watering can and a pair of pruning shoes. In this fully revised edition of a best-selling classic, veteran gardener Shane Smith embraces this new lifestyle approach to greenhouse gardening.
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Shows how to use a greenhouse year-round, from planting seeds in the spring to growing crops like tomatoes and cucumbers in the summer and fall, and how to winter tender plants.
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Review of the Greenhouse Gardener.......2007-03-24
Probably not a good book for anyone interested in greenhouse gardening in the Northern US or Canada. The book dwells mainly on the use of unheated greenhouses during the season when northern gardeners would have their plants outside. Nothing about over winter greenhouse use (snow, subzero temps). However, if you are interested in how someone in the UK utilizes their greenhouse, then this is the book for you.
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- Nice, inexpensive and appropriate
- Four stars for text, two stars for photos.....
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Balcony, Terrace and Patio Gardening (Gardener's Bookshelf)
Margaret Davis
Manufacturer: Fulcrum Publishing
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ASIN: 1555912567 |
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Nice, inexpensive and appropriate.......2006-02-23
The book, written by an elderly lady, is quite to the point and gives very practical advices. The photographs are not too glossy but give a good inpression what roof gardening is all about.
Four stars for text, two stars for photos............2006-01-22
BALCONY, TERRACE AND PATIO GARDENING is a friendly little book filled with observations about the "change" in life, when one must, alas, abandon the larger garden and cultivate an appreciation of horticulture on a much smaller scale. Although Margaret Davis is writing from the perspective of one who has had much experience in larger areas and her target audience is the retired individual like herself who faces this prospect of downsizing, her discovery of the positive aspects of working in a reduced space such as a balcony or townhouse lot are relevant to younger folks who find themselves in similar circumstances with desire to grow favorite plants they knew as children.
Ms Davis understands that some of the most difficult aspects of balcony gardening will probably be wind control, equipment storage, and perhaps, if you are located within the 10 feet or so near the ground, pests. However, if you are fortunate enough to have some sunlight you can grow a variety of sun-lovers such as roses and various herbs. Bougainvilla might work if the climate is warm enough and Camillas will thrive in shade. Hanging baskets are a must, and vegetables are not outside the realm of possibility. Ms Davis is thrilled with citrus trees, but I have only managed to kill them. She also says walls have great potential for trellises that can act as plant supports.
The downside of this book is that it is not well illustrated. The text is dotted with very small black and white photos, and the publishers included a small section of color plates in the center of the book, but other than cryptic notes such as "window view" "Chrysanthemum bonsai in Tokyo" the pictures are not terribly well captioned. Some of them are beautiful, like the photo of the fuchia growing on a patio table. The best shot was placed on the cover and shows an actual composition. Buy this book for Ms Davis narrative which is friendly and unassuming.
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- Excellent Book
- Just what I was looking for!
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The 12-Month Gardener: Simple Strategies for Extending Your Growing Season
Jeff Ashton
Manufacturer: Lark Books
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For vegetable gardeners who dread winter and grocery store produce aisles, Jeff Ashton has an answer, and it's this: don't allow the cold to come. Cover your plants like you would a child in a crib. The 12 Month Gardener is a book about defying the tyranny of seasons by building contraptions that control the plant's environment. It's a clearly written, detailed guide to constructing row covers, tunnels, and greenhouses.
A personal and anecdotal introduction is followed by teacherly, informative chapters on topics such as "Materials, Tools, and Construction Hints," "Vegetables for Cold Weather Gardens," and "The Ultimate Greenhouse." Specific building processes are explained in clear prose, although some knowledge of carpentry is required to fully understand the directions.
This is a book very much for gardeners who've become addicted to the taste of a fresh-picked tomato's sugars or the delicate texture of raw homegrown spinach. Beyond that, it also shows you how to be imaginative and proactive about the environment of your garden. With a bit of work, you don't have to say farewell to the growing season if you aren't ready to. --Emily White
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“A solid guide to creating contraptions that can help you start gardening earlier and keep going longer.”—Chicago Tribune. “Beautifully produced...focuses on ways to inexpensively protect crops from low temperatures....Includes many full-color photographs showing apparatus used to protect crops....A tremendous pleasure to read.”—HortIdeas.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent Book.......2003-10-22
This book has a wealth of wonderful ideas for the serious gardener who wants to extend her/his season. Although I do not intend to go to the lengths that the author does, I have gleened numerous ideas, many of which I have already put to use in the short time I have owned the book. If you are serious about extending your season, this is the book to buy!!
Just what I was looking for!.......2001-12-30
I love this book, and will refer to it often.
Mr. Ashton has provided the reader with clear photos and excellent instructions for a large variety of season extenders. He also explains WHY he prefers certain materials over others.
Reading this book, written by someone more experienced will be a big help to those of us just starting out.
I can't wait to get started!
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The popular author and broadcaster Anne Swithinkbank has written the definitive guide to conservatory plants and how to grow them based on her own extensive experience of growing plants under glass.
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Renowned food scholar Carole Counihan serves up a delicious narrative about family and food in twentieth-century Florence. By looking at how family, and especially gender relations, have changed in Florence since the ending of World War II and continuing on to an examination of current food practices today, Around the Tuscan Table offers a portrait of the changing nature of modern life as exemplified through food. How food is produced, distributed, and consumed speaks volumes about a given culture, and this compelling and artfully narrated book aims to preserve, propagate, and interpret Florentines' world-renowned cuisine and culture.
At the market, in the kitchen, and around the table, Counihan gives readers a taste of everyday life in this region of Italy: how eating together unites the family; how the production of food is gendered; how food is a key tool of socialization, and how culture forms aesthetic tastes.
With more than 20 illustrations and age-old family recipes, this is a treat for the senses and the intellect.
Customer Reviews:
What's Happening to Food, Gender and Family in Italy.......2007-08-01
Around the Tuscan Table addresses one of the fundamental questions in the anthropology of food, as for example raised by Sidney Mintz in his work Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: how do food cultures change over time and come to incorporate completely novel foods while giving up other habits of centuries? It also addresses one of the fundamental questions in the sociology of food: how do traditional agrarian food systems come to be displaced by modern food provisioning systems that are less healthy and more ecologically destructive?
What is remarkable about this work is that it really illustrates the intimate relation between a regional economy and a regional culture of food, and how the two change together through a social history of agrarian change and the emergence of modern foodways. And the pivot on which this relation turns is the question of women's and men's roles in productive and reproductive labor, and the centrality of food to drawing gendered distinctions in work, status, and power. The book presents a very nuanced picture of how the different forms of work performed by men and women, and the different economic opportunities available to them, shape the patterns and styles of cooking, the temporalities of shopping and the timing of meals, and the overall foodways of an entire regional culture.
Prof. Counihan has a wonderful grasp of the subtleties of the reproduction of subordination. Rather than depicting a timeless culture of macho men and sacrificing women, she shows us exactly how both men and women together reproduce those patterns over time, much as Paul Willis showed in his Learning to Labor how working class kids get working class jobs. This might be subtitled, how Italian women get Italian husbands and sons, and end up cooking and cleaning for them. But she also shows us how the struggle to shift gendered positions produces shifts in food cultures, as women first are isolated in the private home in the process of transition from an agrarian to an urban economy, and then come to enter the waged workforce while still bearing the burden of domestic work. And in so doing the power of the woman as family cook, and the traditions of Tuscan food culture, are both eroded by new forms of shopping, cooking and eating. Women make certain gains, but they also lose a great deal.
We see modernization here as a real two-edged sword, bringing an abundance of food but taking away the time and the capacity to cook it and to savor it. We feel a real sense of loss for the old foodways, and even for the period of hunger and poverty that shaped the early to mid-twentieth century, as a time when food really was dreamed of and desired, special dishes were cooked only on special occasions, and food had a seasonality and stronger flavors linked to the land. The Slow Food movement has reinvented some of the attention to quality, flavor and locality that were simply taken for granted in the past.
Why we love Florence and Tuscany.......2004-11-16
Have you ever wandered through a Florentine neighborhood before lunch, smelling indescribably good scents wafting through open windows, hearing families talk to each other, and wondering what it is they are doing, and what they are eating? If you have, this book is for you. Around the Tuscan Table is an endlessly interesting and very readable saga of how modern Florentine families and Florentine food have changed in the last few decades, rendering the mysterious stone streets and people of Florence infinitely more real for the traveler and Italophile. And this ethnography also provides great recipes for simple, tasty Florentine food; the straccoto recipe has become a family favorite. Straccoto is Italian pot roast, with the sauce served over pasta as a first course. It is delicious.
This book is a marvelous antidote to the endless up-market mythologizing of Tuscany. It seems that we simply can't get away from `Tuscany as the promised land' - a place where rich Brits and Americans can buy a farmhouse and pretend, a la Marie Antoinette, to be earth-grimed farmers - of artisanal olive oils. Tuscany has become a kind of iconic play-land for the wealthy and bored cosmopolitan. But what of the Tuscan people? As a frequent traveler to Tuscany, I am thrilled that this book has been published. For too long the writing of all things Tuscan has been from the perspective of the expatriate - the émigré viewing a mythologized culture viewing the émigré, with the Tuscan landscape and people somehow magically preserved in a state of 19th century splendor, or squalor, depending on the purse of the observing expat and the state of the `villa' she or he has purchased. Dr. Counihan's book provides us with a welcome picture of how Florentines live and eat - as well as some of the best and simplest recipes for home cooked Tuscan meals available.
Rather than assuming an unchanging social and physical landscape, Dr. Counihan chronicles the changes in place, attitudes, habits, and social relations over decades among the family of her ex-husband. Her training is in anthropology, and she is a well-known and highly-respected scholar of food and identity, so it is inevitable that her book should focus on food as a metaphor for social change through time. However, this is no dry anthropological tome, it is readable, interesting, and highly informative. By relying on the many years that she lived in Italy, married to an Italian, she is able to give us a picture of Italian life not available to many Americans. She also teaches us about food change - how prosperity has altered Italian habits and attitudes, and how Italians feel about the many changes their country has undergone since World War II. We, as outsiders and traveling Americans, often view the Italian people as somehow unchanging, unmoving in culture and tradition. This book changes that perspective, allowing us to view the dynamism and modernity of Florentine families - and to have a much better understanding of why the streets of Florence smell so good at lunchtime... and why the mystique of Tuscan food and livelihoods is so compelling to Americans.
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This unique tribute to women, food, and family is brimming with top-notch food writing and delicious recipes.
In this mouthwatering celebration of the role cooking plays in our lives today, women describe the foods their mothers and grandmothers made for them and how they carry on the tradition of lovingly preparing for their own families "mother's very finest." Lela Nargi gathers around the table a wide array of women-from biologists and book editors to mathematicians and marketers-to discover why they feel that everything important in life-creativity, patience, time alone, time with others, nourishment mboth physical and spiritual-lies in the simple act of cooking a meal.
Featuring a baker's dozen women and their favorite home-cooked recipes-including the Thinking Person's Cheesecake and Day-After Thanksgiving Gumbo-Around the Table will delight any woman who relishes the act of putting food on the table for the people she loves.
Customer Reviews:
Interesting insight to women and food.......2005-07-27
This book offers a personal glimpse into women's lives and their life with food and other women. With a personal touch, Lela Nargi's writing puts the reader into the subject's lives and gives a tantilizing view of who cooks, why they cook, and why they cook WHAT they cook. The recipes are an added bonus, giving the reader another way to relate to the women they have just read about, and making the experience more fulfilling than just a book about women and food.
The stories are delightfully varied in terms of culture, tone and food, and give some new ideas on celebrating with food. I myself want to have a "perfect meal" party, and can only hope that it's as good as the one in "Around the Table". An excellent, quick read, and a great book to add to your collection, if you enjoy food and reading about foodies.
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The meaningful spirit of family gathered around the dinner table is rekindled in this engaging collection of 365 conversation starters designed to keep families talking, learning, and bonding year-round. Parents will learn how to cultivate and cherish mealtime discussions with their children through these thought-provoking questions. Topics include moral values, ethical dilemmas, relationships, problem solving, religion, and individuality. Families can breathe new life into the rich tradition of dinner conversation.
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Not just for the table..........2002-01-12
Though Ms. Coleman's book is written for families, I have found it to be an excellent classroom resource as well. Steps ahead of most "idea-a-day" books, the questions posed are both thought provoking and timely. Many universal themes are addressed, promoting lively discussion for all ages. Parents, teachers and students alike will find AROUND THE FAMILY TABLE a perennial favorite.
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Around the Family Table is a practical and inspiring book of song and prayer for the Jewish home. Many uplifting and ancient Jewish traditions are rooted in the home and celebrated with the family. This book of prayer and celebration is intended to serve
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Around the Family Table: Songs and Prayers for the Jewish Home.......2007-09-01
Brilliant!!! Rabbi Shlomo Riskin shares his insights of Judaism's meaningful and humane family rituals with the reader.
Shabbat company.......2006-11-06
This has been a wonderful addition to Shabbat's in our home. It is full of insight and wisdom. We enjoy using this as part of our family Shabbat Celebrations.
Songs and prayers for the Family Table .......2006-04-09
This collection of songs and prayers for the Jewish home is collected and annotated by one of the great Jewish teachers of our day, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin the communal Rabbi of Efrat. Rabbi Riskin's teachings about the importance of the Jewish family table in Jewish life are also presented in his very moving and special 'Haggadah'.
This collection should add to the 'Oneg' around the Shabbat table.
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Around the Table (Family Stories of Sholom Aleichem)
Aleichem & shevrin
Manufacturer: Atheneum
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Around the Family Table: Songs and Prayers for the Jewish Home, Pocket Edition
Shlomo Riskin
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Around the Family Table is a practical and inspiring book of song and prayer for the Jewish home. Many uplifting and ancient Jewish traditions are rooted in the home and celebrated with the family. This book of prayer and celebration is intended to serve
Customer Reviews:
A truly enriching work.......2006-01-20
Rabbi Riskin is one of the most important and dynamic Jewish teachers and leaders of our generation. He is among other things one of the founders of the community of Efrat in Israel. I have for some years now used his outstanding Haggadah at our Pesach table. In this present work as with the Haggadah he provides explanations and commentary which deepen and enrich the experience of celebrating around the family table.
A truly enriching work.
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Around the home table
J. C Jacoby
Manufacturer: Lutheran Publication Society
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- Sure to be a Family Heirloom
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Around the oak table: Family recipes and old maxims
Janet L Allen
Manufacturer: Quality Hill Pub. Co
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ASIN: 0965463001 |
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Sure to be a Family Heirloom.......2004-03-27
I was one of the recipe testers before this book even went to print and I can honestly say that there are only two recipes that aren't great...Glady's Dessert and Tomato Shrimp Aspic. I have a hard time keeping my copy at home because everyone is always trying to borrow it. What a great book!
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