Free Download The Planter of Modern Life: Louis Bromfield and the Seeds of a Food Revolution by Stephen Heyman - GJN

In interwar France Louis Bromfield was equally famous as a writer and as a gardener. He pruned dahlias with Edith Wharton weeded Gertrude Steins vegetable patch and fed the starving artists who flocked to his farmhouse outside Paris. His best-selling novels earned him a Pulitzer?and the jealousy of friends like Ernest Hemingway. But his radical approach to the soil hasIn interwar France Louis Bromfield was equally famous as a writer and as a gardener. He pruned dahlias with Edith Wharton weeded Gertrude Steins vegetable patch and fed the starving artists who flocked to his farmhouse outside Paris. His best-selling novels earned him a Pulitzer?and the jealousy of friends like Ernest Hemingway. But his radical approach to the soil has aged better than his books inspiring a wave of farmers foodies and chefs to rethink how they should grow and consume their food.In 1938 Bromfield returned to his native Ohio an expat novelist now reinvented as the squire of 1000-acre Malabar Farm. Transplanting ideas from India and Europe he created a mecca for forward- thinking agriculturalists and a rural retreat for celebrities like Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall (who were married there in 1945). Bromfields untold story is a fascinating history of people and places?and of deep-rooted concerns about the environment and its ability to sustain our most basic needs and pleasures.(less)

Share this post