This Immeasurable Place: Food and Farming from the Edge of Wilderness - Hardcover

Blake Spalding; Jennifer Castle; Lavinia Spalding

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0999458817 ISBN 13: 9780999458815

Publisher: HBG Press, 2017

Synopsis

This Immeasurable Place: Food and Farming from the Edge of Wilderness is the long-awaited second cookbook from James-Beard nominated Hell's Backbone Grill and Farm in Boulder, Utah. This Immeasurable Place continues the inspiring story of how two women-chef-co-owners Blake Spalding and Jennifer Castle-started their award-winning, Buddhist-based, farm-to-table restaurant in a tiny, traditionally Mormon town on the edge of the magnificent Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Filled with seventy new recipes; gorgeous images by world-famous photographer Ace Kvale; and stories of the restaurant, organic farm, and town, This Immeasurable Place is much more than a cookbook. It's a food-justice primer, a guide to eating consciously, and a meditation on connecting community to land and table.

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From the Back Cover

"Blake Spalding and Jen Castle are alchemists, truly changing the world through their hands, their hearts, their farm, their food. In community, everything is possible. Theirs is a leadership of love." -- Terry Tempest Williams, author of The Hour of Land.

Review

NPR: On Point's Best Books of 2017

"... Filled with remarkable recipes and essays, it breathed life back into my radical, sometimes flagging hope for humanity, and is as inspiring as it is mouthwatering. We need this book now more than ever." -- Elissa Altman, author of Poor Man's Feast
"The authors lay out the seasons of the restaurant with humor, gentleness, and joy, but underpin it with their steely, unflinching resolve. Buy this as a cookbook and a keepsake of the truly immeasurable spirit of this community and the land." -- Cheryl Alters Jamison, four-time James Beard Award winner 

"The wisdom found in the pages of this beautiful and surprising book is immeasurable.  It's wisdom from the edge, from one of the most glorious hidden kitchens there is. The story of Blake and Jen, true kitchen sisters -- their cooking, friendship, and farming--is expansive and illuminating. Land, food, family, stewardship, and spirit all course through these tempting, gorgeous pages. A book that feeds us on so many levels." -- Davia Nelson, NPR's Kitchen Sisters 

"There was so much to dig into--profiles of all the characters who work in and around the stunningly remote Utah farm-restaurant, plus "Blake's Fun Facts from the Henhouse," Jen's family food memories, and good lord, Ace Kvale's photos--that I was more inclined to curl up with the book than to spring into action." -- Every Day with Rachael Ray

"This Immeasurable Place is as much for curling up in a chair and lapsing into Southwestern reveries as it is about cooking. The recipes--organized as so many cookbooks do these days, by the season--are homespun and inventive, leaning on garden vegetables, lots of cream and butter, lively spicing, and creative turns on regional Southwestern dishes." -- Sierra Club Magazine

"As this book shows, horizon and history can't be separated from the majesty of what we grow and prepare.  Among hallowed lands, creators Jen Castle and Blake Spalding channel a culinary spirituality, and through these beautiful pages, the warmth and love abiding at Hell's Backbone Grill." --
Jacki Lyden, author of Daughter of the Queen of Sheba and former NPR host

About this edition

• Publisher: HBG Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0999458817
• ISBN 13: 9780999458815
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 264