Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I had driven six hours from Manhattan to interview Mark, a farmer who was growing the kind of local organic food that more and more people wanted to eat. I was not disgusted but enlivened by what we were doing. I was fascinated by the hard white purse of the stomach, the neat coil of intestines, and the lacy white caul fat. #2 I went back to the farm the next morning to rake rocks in the tomatoes with Mark’s assistant Michael. It took two hours to pick all the rocks out of the soil, and I was sore from the previous day’s exertions. #3 I was not a great cook at the time, but I was a big fan of good food. I appreciated it, but I didn’t have a steady relationship with it. Food was more like a series of one-night stands for me. I was not sure the oven in my small studio was functional, since in the seven years I’d lived there, I’d never used it. #4 The food was delicious, but the crew was not impressed. Food is the first wealth, and if you grow it right, you feel insanely rich no matter what you own.

本作は、都会の虚飾を剥ぎ取り、生命の「手触り」を奪還する魂の遍歴です。洗練されたマンハッタンの日常から、泥にまみれ内臓の温もりに触れる農耕生活への転換は、単なる移住の記録ではありません。岩だらけの土を耕す身体的な苦痛さえもが、現代人が忘却した「生」の実感として鮮烈に描写され、読者の五感を激しく揺さぶります。 食を「一夜限りの関係」と割り切っていた著者が、自らの手で糧を生み出すことで見出す「真の富」の定義は、あまりに示唆に富んでいます。便利さの裏側で麻痺していた感性を、大地の豊かさが鮮やかに蘇生させていく。その筆致には、物質的な豊かさを超えた、人間本来の輝きを希求する切実で情熱的な祈りが込められています。