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PublisherpowerHouse Books

ISBN-101576877108

ISBN-139781576877104

eBay Product ID (ePID)201652482

Product Key Features

Book TitleOrganic : Farmers and Chefs of the Hudson Valley

Number of Pages218 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSpecific Ingredients / Natural Foods, Subjects & Themes / Portraits & Selfies, Agriculture / Organic, Organic, Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, Pa)

Publication Year2014

IllustratorYes

GenreTravel, Cooking, Technology & Engineering, Photography, Gardening

AuthorFrancesco Mastalia

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight55.4 Oz

Item Length12.2 in

Item Width9.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Preface byGussow, Joan Dye

Reviews"In photographer Francesco Mastalia's book Organic, the Hudson Valley farmers who raise their plants and animals without synthetic pesticides, herbicides or fertilizers, and the chefs who cook with and celebrate their produce, get the star treatment." -TIME.com "The very intimate portraits of the farmers and chefs of this beautiful and intensely personal bookreach out from the page as you gaze into their souls, looking for a place at the table." -Examiner.com "Francesco Mastalia's ambrotypes are among the finest being made in the world today." -Sublime Magazine "Part work of art, part tribute to farmers who love the earth they work, this new book deserves to be out where people can see it." -Mothernaturework.com , "In photographer Francesco Mastalia's book Organic, the Hudson Valley farmers who raise their plants and animals without synthetic pesticides, herbicides or fertilizers, and the chefs who cook with and celebrate their produce, get the star treatment." -TIME.com, " . . . for anyone who likes their locally-grown, pesticide-free carrots with a dusting of nostalgia, Organic is tasty indeed. -TIME.com "The very intimate portraits of the farmers and chefs of this beautiful and intensely personal bookreach out from the page as you gaze into their souls, looking for a place at the table." -Examiner.com " Organic: Farmers and Chefs of the Hudson Valley is a gorgeous tome (no doubt intended for your coffee table) that has no recipes, just stunning full-page photographs by Francesco Mastalia of the new rock stars: farmers." -GOOD "Francesco Mastalia's ambrotypes are among the finest being made in the world today." -Sublime Magazine "Part work of art, part tribute to farmers who love the earth they work, this new book deserves to be out where people can see it." -Mothernaturework.com "It's a perfect marriage of process and subject, both using hands-on techniques to produce remarkable results. The amber toned images reflect that the cultivation of land was a manual process that linked the farmer directly to the soil." - Lenscratch

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal641.302097473

SynopsisThe Hudson Valley, New York has become an epicenter for the local, organic, sustainable food movement. With its rich agricultural land, the awareness for sustainable living, and the growing demand for local, organic food, the farm-to-table, locavore movement has become a way of life in the Hudson Valley. Organic spotlights the Hudson Valley as a region at the forefront of this movement and features the portraits and words of the dedicated farmers who are committed to growing and producing food using sustainable methods, and the chefs who echo their beliefs and pay homage to the food they produce, including such notables as: * Amy Hepworth of Hepworth Farms, works on a 7th-generation, family-owned farm * Dan Barber, chef and co-owner of Blue Hill at Stone Barns was named one of the world's most influential people in 2009 in Time 's annual "Time 100" * Zakary Pelaccio, owner of Fish & Game, is famous for building Brooklyn's first gastropub and pioneering NYC's nose-to-tail culinary movement * Ken Greene at the Hudson Valley Seed Library provides many local producers with heirloom and open-pollinated garden seeds and protects 15,000 years of agricultural history * Steffen Schneider at the 400-acre biodynamic Hawthorne Valley Farm has helped educate over 13,000 kids since 1972 as part of the farm's Visiting Students Program The over 100 portraits of the farmers and chefs of the Hudson Valley were photographed using the wet-plate collodion process, a technique developed in the 1850s when the art of photography was in its infancy. With the use of large wooden cameras and brass lenses, glass plates are hand coated to produce one-of-a-kind ambrotype images. The amber toned images remind us of a time when the cultivation of land was a manual process that linked the farmer directly to the soil. "Organic" is one of the most misunderstood and often misused words describing food today. In narrating their own stories, the farmers and chefs share their philosophy about what it means to grow and live organically and sustainably., A gorgeous book about food, with information and commentaries from the top chefs behind a number of renowned American restaurants. The Hudson Valley in New York has become a hub of culinary creativity - an epicentre for the local, organic, sustainable food movement. With its rich agricultural land, awareness of sustainable living and increasing demand for local, organic food, the farm-to-table 'locavore' (those who only eat locally-sourced food) movement is gathering momentum across the area.

LC Classification NumberTX369