Growing at the Speed of Life by Graham Kerr
Remember the Galloping Gourmet tv show? I do. Graham Kerr's was a popular cooking show in the 1970s,decades before they became ubiquitous. In the preface of this new book, Growing at the Speed of Life, he says that Weight Watchers gave him an award for his cooking and recipes, but not the good kind of award. Now in his late 70s and with some pretty dramatic health scares behind him and his wife, Kerr is fully into gardening and eating well. I received a review copy of the book and have enjoyed reading through the recipes over the past week. Tomorrow I'm preparing one for supper. When Kerr stepped away from the butter and started his own garden, he learned the satisfactions and joys of growing food, building his soil with compost, and putting up a little greenhouse. The first 60-pages cover his journey of learning and applying what he learned. The book is arranged by plant name, starting with apple, and ending with turnips. Over the course of 300 pages, sixty fruits an...