Exploring the journey of food from garden to table, this book highlights the intricate processes involved in growing, harvesting, and preparing meals. It delves into the relationship between nature and nourishment, emphasizing the importance of sustainable practices and the impact of food choices on health and the environment. Through vivid storytelling and insightful anecdotes, readers gain a deeper appreciation for the origins of their meals and the labor that brings them to fruition.
'What is this rose,' the great rosarian Graham Stuart Thomas asks, 'thatnslaves gardeners?...Why, in short, does everyone love a rose, and what doest offer that other flowers lack?' Wayne Winterrowd posed this question tohirty-two eminent fellow gardeners, who join him in giving their highlyriginal and engaging responses in this book. Michael Pollan, is 'dazzled,mitten...bowled over' by 'Maiden's Blush' (known in France as 'Cuisse deymphe Emue'), while Mirabel Osler honours Rosa sancta, the Holy Rose ofbyssinia, only to find that for others it may 'stink of the Fall'.hristopher Lloyd gleefully tells of rousting out him mother's extensive butroublesome collection at Great Dixter - allowing, though, a fewndispensables to stay on, for, as he concedes, 'Some roses are worthtruggling for, after all.' Winterrowd's contributors constitute a Who's Whof contemporary garden writers. Their highly personal essays are rich witheminiscence, with prejudice, with love remembered or recently experiencednd sometimes with cantankerous personal opinion. Many offer fascinating
