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A review by thebakersbooks
To Boldly Grow: Finding Joy, Adventure, and Dinner in Your Own Backyard by Tamar Haspel
adventurous
informative
slow-paced
3.0
As nice as it is to see more fellow Jewish people getting in on the homesteading trend, this is very much a 'billionaire teaches you how to become a billionaire' type book. Sure you can find joy, adventure, and dinner in your own backyard...if you can afford to move out of a city, buy land in Cape Cod, several boats, a truck, etc. Frustrated to say the 'how to have a happy marriage' tips sprinkled in are very much in the same vein: "find your soulmate in your forties, then—"
I also knew nothing about this author going in and if I'd been aware she was a nutrition writer who would drop the (now medically outdated, besides being fatphobic) term 'obesity' right and left, I would not have picked it up. One can happily do all the activities in this book while "obese," heath as an end goal is ableist even outside that framework, and none of that needed to be included in this book! Just teach us how to pluck a damn turkey.
That said, the tips are forthright, the honesty often hilarious at the author's own expense in a way I appreciate, and I learned two gardening things I actually CAN use in my postage-stamp backyard and am excited to try come spring.
I do not recommend this book.
I also knew nothing about this author going in and if I'd been aware she was a nutrition writer who would drop the (now medically outdated, besides being fatphobic) term 'obesity' right and left, I would not have picked it up. One can happily do all the activities in this book while "obese," heath as an end goal is ableist even outside that framework, and none of that needed to be included in this book! Just teach us how to pluck a damn turkey.
That said, the tips are forthright, the honesty often hilarious at the author's own expense in a way I appreciate, and I learned two gardening things I actually CAN use in my postage-stamp backyard and am excited to try come spring.
I do not recommend this book.