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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> Carla Emery's memory will live on through the nine editions of her
> wonderful book. Countless homesteaders and gardeners are because of her
> more knowledgeable and are living the good life more fully. She done good.
>
> This is what I have in Country Bookstore on my web site:
>
> THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COUNTRY LIVING, by Carla Emery
> Carla Emery is a national treasure. This is simply the most informative
> book ever written on country living, the next best thing to having a
> live-in grandmother who knows everything there is to getting homegrown 
> food
> from dreams to dinner plates plus nearly anything else you need to know.
> Begun as a 12-page table of contents for a recipe book in 1969, the 
> present
> ninth edition has 858 pages of far more than recipes. Veggies, vines,
> trees, grains, poultry, goats, cows, bees, rabbits, sheep, pigs. Planning,
> nurturing, harvesting, preserving, preparing. Flipping pages at random
> finds starting transplants, breads leavened with eggs and beating, 
> speeding
> up tomato sauce-making, harvesting herbs, making cider, managing an
> existing stand of trees, root cellar storage, soap making, brooding 
> chicks,
> secrets to safe cattle handling, cultured buttermilk, cooking on a wood
> stove, jams and jellies, making a wool quilt. If your budget or bookshelf
> has room for only one book, this is the book to buy. Go to Amazon's page
> for THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COUNTRY LIVING

I have one of her original out of the van, mimeographed in the kitchen on 
colored paper books.  Wouldn't trade it for all the new editions in the 
world!

Lynda