A chat about the funny, sometimes grisly business of raising your own food with Cold Spring resident Max Watman, author of Harvest: Field Notes From a Far-Flung Pursuit of Real Food.
by Brian K. Mahoney
Second-generation food lover Max Watman (Chasing the White Dog: An Amateur Outlaw’s Adventures in Moonshine) shifts his obsession from homemade booze to DIY food in Harvest: Field Notes From a Far-Flun Pursuit of Real Food (W.W. Norton & Company 2014). In Hudson Valley “farm-to-table land,†he raises chickens, tries pickling and cheesemaking, takes hunting and fly-fishing trips.…

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