โHome gardeners, cooks and nature lovers will savor this delightful accountโ of a journey from first spring planting to final fall harvest (Publishers Weekly).
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My Vegetable Love is a daily record of a growing season in Iowaโbut itโs about much more than planting peppers, tending tomatoes, or harvesting eggplants. Itโs about all the things that influence this gardener: the weather, the neighborhood, his wifeโs possibly recurring cancer, the changing nature of the academic community. Itโs about the last months of his twenty-year-old cat, about his dog, and about all the other humans and animals in his gardening world. And about his family: the aunts and uncles who cared for and fed a six-year-old orphan, and helped him understand that good food was a way of knowing that someone cared.
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In all the gardens he has tended, the dills he has pickled, and the dinners he has cooked, Carl H.ย Klaus has tried to carry on that tradition and pass it on to his own childrenโand in this โdelectableโ book, he shares it with us as well (Publishers Weekly).
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โPart Gilbert White, part Henry David Thoreau, this chronicle of an Iowa gardenerโs year has drawn from the heartland a calm, compassionate harvest.โ โRoger B.ย Swain, host of PBSโs Victory Garden
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โWholeheartedly celebrates friendship, love, pets, the elements of family, academia, cooking, eatingโand of course, gardeningย .ย .ย . Bon appรฉtitโand good reading.โ โSmithsonian