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Patty’s
average rating for
2024
3.4
3.4
In this follow up to The Salt Path, Raynor Winn and her beloved husband Moth are now living in a tiny church apartment while he toils away at university and, to Ray's distress, begins showing increasing deterioration from the disease that will eventually kill him. Still reeling from her own mother's death and increasingly drawn to the portion of the Southwest Path that winds near their home, Ray decides that Moth needs more exposure to nature. An
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After reading this book I'll never look at out-of-season produce the same way again. From pond ice packed in straw to behemoth double-door stainless steel refrigerators that dominate suburban kitchens, Twilley expertly and engagingly describes how the quest to refrigerate and freeze food has changed the history of countries and completely re-shaped diets—for better and worse. The ability to ship meat to the UK decimated sheep farming in Britain a
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