A Life Worth Eating

A Life Worth Eating

Sam Gray

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Vektor Publishing
Año de edición:
2026
Materia
Memorias
ISBN:
9781837097463
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At a time when many people are questioning what we eat, A Life Worth Eating offers a calm and deeply personal journey into the realities of small-scale farming.Drawing on nearly fifteen years spent raising animals and growing food in the Shropshire Hills, Samantha Gray reflects on the seasonal routines, quiet responsibilities and unexpected lessons that shape the food on our plates. Through moments of care, loss, humour and resilience - from lambing fields and muddy pig pens to greenhouse mornings and abattoir runs - she reveals the human stories that lie behind everyday nourishment.As independent farms steadily disappear from the landscape, these stories offer more than nostalgia. They provide an intimate portrait of stewardship, sacrifice and connection in a world increasingly detached from how food is produced. This is not a manifesto or a how-to guide, but a lived account of the fragile relationship between people, animals, land and nourishment.Warm, honest and thought-provoking, this memoir invites readers to look more closely at the food before them - and at the lives quietly entwined within it.

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