THE YEAR OF THE GOAT: 40,000 MILES AND THE QUEST FOR THE PERFECT CHEESE: Margaret Hathaway: Lyons Press: Nonfiction: 204 pages
Hathaway, a former manager of the well-known Magnolia Bakery in New York City, and her boyfriend (husband by the end of the book), Karl Schatz, a professional photographer, leave their life in the city to travel the country in pursuit of information on raising goats and producing goat cheese. In preparation for their own agricultural life, the couple visit goat farms, auctions, and conventions, learning about milking, trimming hooves, slaughtering animals, and all things goat.
Readers interested in agricultural life and road memoirs will enjoy this book--Hathaway is a likable, gentle narrator--but it suffers in comparison to the more prominent books about city dwellers turning to the rural life, most notably Barbara Kingsolver’s excellent, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.
MBC
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Thanks for the tip. I thought this book sounded really good, but maybe its too bland, eh?
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