Shucked
Shucked

Author: Erin Byers Murray

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2011-10-11

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 1429989092

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Bill Buford's Heat meets Phoebe Damrosch's Service Included in this unique blend of personal narrative, food miscellany, and history In March of 2009, Erin Byers Murray ditched her pampered city girl lifestyle and convinced the rowdy and mostly male crew at Island Creek Oysters in Duxbury, Massachusetts, to let a completely unprepared, aquaculture-illiterate food and lifestyle writer work for them for a year to learn the business of oysters. The result is Shucked—part love letter, part memoir and part documentary about the world's most beloved bivalves. Providing an in-depth look at the work that goes into getting oysters from farm to table, Shucked shows Erin's fullcircle journey through the modern day oyster farming process and tells a dynamic story about the people who grow our food, and the cutting-edge community of weathered New England oyster farmers who are defying convention and looking ahead. The narrative also interweaves Erin's personal story—the tale of how a technology-obsessed workaholic learns to slow life down a little bit and starts to enjoy getting her hands dirty (and cold). This is a book for oyster lovers everywhere, but also a great read for locavores and foodies in general.

New England Farmgirl
New England Farmgirl

Author: Jessica Robinson

Publisher: Gibbs Smith

Published: 2015-06-23

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 1423638018

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From a farmgirl to your table—Easy-to-make, delicious, local, New England recipes, plus tips on getting the best produce and products for your kitchen. New England Farmgirl invites readers to learn about growing a garden, buying local, and choosing organic foods. The ultimate delight: it is filled with family heritage recipes—from grandfather’s fudge to great-grandmother’s molasses cookies, along with recipes created by the author to use the great products harvested in New England. Maple Peach Barbecue Sauce, Strawberry-Raspberry Popsicles, Pecan Pie, Farmhouse Pumpkin Pound Cake and so many more delightful recipes bring New England farm products to your table. New England is known for culinary delights, such as blueberries, cranberries and maple syrup. Reading this will be like driving through rural Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. Step back in time and remember the joys of childhood with wonderful farm stands, orchards, and wineries throughout New England. “The recipes in New England Farmgirl are original and creative. Most importantly, they are easy to make. Plus, the tantalizing photographs will completely make your mouth water.”—The Washington Book Review “Robinson’s culinary ode to New England has something delicious for everyone.”—Eleanor Duke, Edible Rhody

Farmers and Fishermen
Farmers and Fishermen

Author: Daniel Vickers

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 0807839957

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Daniel Vickers examines the shifting labor strategies used by colonists as New England evolved from a string of frontier settlements to a mature society on the brink of industrialization. Lacking a means to purchase slaves or hire help, seventeenth-century settlers adapted the labor systems of Europe to cope with the shortages of capital and workers they encountered on the edge of the wilderness. As their world developed, changes in labor arrangements paved the way for the economic transformations of the nineteenth century. By reconstructing the work experiences of thousands of farmers and fishermen in eastern Massachusetts, Vickers identifies who worked for whom and under what terms. Seventeenth-century farmers, for example, maintained patriarchal control over their sons largely to assure themselves of a labor force. The first generation of fish merchants relied on a system of clientage that bound poor fishermen to deliver their hauls in exchange for goods. Toward the end of the colonial period, land scarcity forced farmers and fishermen to search for ways to support themselves through wage employment and home manufacture. Out of these adjustments, says Vickers, emerged a labor market sufficient for industrialization.

Markets of New England
Markets of New England

Author: Christine Chitnis

Publisher: Little Bookroom

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781892145963

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Christine Chitnis has crisscrossed New England discovering farmers markets and crafts markets, and in this book fifty of the most vibrant, unique and thriving events in the region are described and lavishly photographed.

A Tale of New England
A Tale of New England

Author: Robert E. Shalhope

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2003-06-11

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780801871276

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Harwood's struggle to reach full manhood and assume his position as head of the family, his misgivings about challenging - much less displacing - his father, the changes American life brought to this traditional rite of passage, Hiram's relationships with wife and children, seasonal events, and all the day-to-day experiences of this finally tragic figure make for a fascinating story and provide a highly unusual window into antebellum American life.".