The Best of Virginia Farms Cookbook and Tour Book: Recipes, People, Places - Hardcover

Williamson, CiCi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0897324161 ISBN 13: 9780897324168

Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press, 2003

Synopsis

The Best of Virginia Farms uses a variety of writing features (interviews, sidebars, tours, essays, and recipes) along with unique illustrations and maps to convey America's fascinating agricultural story. The book reveals the intimate relationship between a state's agriculture and its overall identity. America's oldest farm state, Virginia has a fascinating farming history. In addition to the expected crops, readers will also find information on wine and spirits, Christmas trees, and Virginia's famous horse farm industry. Whether it's a tour of Virginia's historic plantations or a traditional holiday recipe from Colonial Williamsburg, The Best of Virginia Farms will provide a unique perspective on the Old Dominion. Filled with fun and practical how-to information, thisbook will inspire readers to prepare a recipe, take a tour, or enjoy a new product they have never tried. Promising to enrich the spirit, this book taps into the traditions and mystique that surround farming in Virginia and celebrate the family bonds and rugged individuality of rural life.

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From the Back Cover

Through recipes, tours, interviews, essays, maps, and illustrations, The Best of Virginia Farms Cookbook & Tour Book tells the fascinating story of Virginia agriculture. The book reveals the intimate relationship between agriculture and Virginia's history, character, and personality. With a light, often humorous tone, it entertains, enlightens, and educates readers about Virginia's land, people, and food.
Readers will find hands-on, show-and-tell insights into traditional small-farm values, organic farming's successful practices, sustainable agriculture's cutting-edge developments, and corporate farming's most enlightened programs.
The Best of Virginia Farms will give you pleasure as it reveals the history and mystique that surround Virginia farming. It will enrich your spirit as it celebrates the family bonds and the formation of uniquely American character molded by a way of life directly connected to the land.

About the Author

The author of five cookbooks, CiCi Williamson has been writing a weekly food
column in numerous newspapers across the country for 21 years. She's also a travel writer and photographer who has visited more than 80 countries and written hundreds of travel articles. But the McLean, Virginia resident always returns home thinking her state is the most beautiful and diverse.

About this edition

• Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0897324161
• ISBN 13: 9780897324168
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 308