To Eat: A Country Life

<p><b>A memorable book about the path food travels from garden to table</b></p><p>A celebration of life together, a tribute to an utterly unique garden, a wonderfully idiosyncratic guide for cooks and gardeners interested in exploring the possibilities of farm-to-table living -- <i>To Eat</i> is all of these things and more.<br> In 1974, Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd moved from Boston to southern Vermont, where they became the proprietors of a twenty-eight-acre patch of wilderness. The land was forested, overgrown, and wild, complete with a stream. Today, North Hill's seven carefully cultivated acres -- open to visitors during the warmer months -- are an internationally renowned garden.<br> In the intervening years, both the garden and the gardening books (<i>A Year at North Hill</i>, <i>Living Seasonally</i>, <i>Our Life in Gardens</i>) Eck and Winterrowd created together have been acclaimed in many forms, including in the pages of <i>The New York Times</i>. They were at work on <i>To Eat</i> -- which also includes recipes from the renowned chef and restaurateur Beatrice Tosti di Valminuta and beautiful illustrations from their long-time collaborator Bobbi Angell -- when Winterrowd passed away, in 2010.<br> Informative, funny, and moving, the delights within -- a runaway bull; a recipe for crisp, fatty <i>chicarrones</i>; a personal history of the Egyptian onion; a hymn to the magic of lettuce -- are sure to make <i>To Eat</i> a book readers return to again and again.</p>