Margaret Hathaway
Auteur van The Year of the Goat: 40,000 Miles and the Quest for the Perfect Cheese
Over de Auteur
Margaret Hathaway is the author of The New Portland, Maine, Chef's Table, Living with Goats, and Food Lover's Guide to Maine. Her husband, Karl Schatz, is a photographer and leader of Slow Food Portland. They live with their three children on a small farm in southern Maine.
Werken van Margaret Hathaway
The New Portland, Maine, Chef's Table: Extraordinary Recipes from the Coast of Maine (2019) 6 exemplaren
Maine Community Cookbook Volume 2: 200 More Recipes Celebrating Home Cooking in the Pine Tree State (2022) 5 exemplaren
Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Geslacht
- female
Leden
Besprekingen
Statistieken
- Werken
- 8
- Leden
- 132
- Populariteit
- #153,555
- Waardering
- 3.2
- Besprekingen
- 5
- ISBNs
- 14
Margaret and Karl decide they want to produce goat cheese. Or something. They know they like cheese and they think they like goats. So let's do some research - and maybe get a book deal out of it. They visit a lot of farms and auctions; discover, to some relief, that yes! they like goats. And decide, definitely dairy. Not meat.
So there's my main beef (ha ha). Despite the fact that there is a cashmere goat on the cover; "Angora goats rounded up for shearing" in the photo section plus a photo of someone's angora goat mailbox... fiber goats practically don't exist in this book. It's dairy or meat with no Choice C.
My second complaint is the 30,000-foot view of everything that we get. Example: a buckling sold at auction for $16,000. The buckling is shown in the photos; and the sale is mentioned in the text. What breed of goat is he? Who knows? I guess the authors knew - this is all allegedly part of a research project with dutiful note taking. But the detail somehow missed getting into the book. Who is this book for?
I bought it and read it because I just wanted to be around goats. But I can't give it more than two stars.… (meer)