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Author

Timmermeister, Kurt.

Title Growing a feast : the chronicle of a farm-to-table meal / Kurt Timmermeister.

Publication Info.

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]

Copies

Location	Pub Note	Status
Moline PL Adult Non-Fiction - MPLG-1	641.59797 TIM	AVAILABLE
River Valley DL Adult Non-Fiction - RVLG-1	641.597597 TIMME	AVAILABLE
Robert R Jones PL Adult Non-Fiction - CVPG-1	641.59 TIM	AVAILABLE

Edition	First edition.
Description	310 pages ; 22 cm
	text rdacontent
	unmediated rdamedia
	volume rdacarrier
Note	Includes index.
Contents	Introduction: The feast is established -- Two years before the meal : the birth of a calf -- Eighteen months before : the hard cheese is made -- The cheese cave and the aging of the cheese -- Early planting in the garden -- Nine months before : Alice is bred -- Springtime on the farm -- Summer arrives -- Preparation for dinner begins -- Two weeks before : Alice calves -- Four days before : foraging and harvesting -- Milk, cream and butter -- Saturday morning : Tyler arrives -- Saturday afternoon : dinner preparation is finished -- The guests arrive, the feast begins -- The second half of dinner -- Appendix: Recipes.
Summary	A restaurateur details the hard work involved with starting a dairy farm and describes a feast that was two years in the making, using only vegetables he harvested and animals he raised to supply the meal.
Subject	Timmermeister, Kurt.
	Timmermeister, Kurt -- Homes and haunts -- Washington (State) -- Vashon Island.
	Timmermeister, Kurt -- Friends and associates.
	Dinners and dining -- Washington (State) -- Vashon Island.
	Cooking -- Washington (State) -- Vashon Island.
	Dairy products -- Washington (State) -- Vashon Island.
	Cooks -- Washington (State) -- Vashon Island -- Biography.
	Dairy farmers -- Washington (State) -- Vashon Island -- Biography.
	Agriculture -- Washington (State) -- Vashon Island.
	Vashon Island (Wash.) -- Social life and customs.
ISBN	9780393088892 hardcover
	0393088898 hardcover