The Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to 2018
Price
$17.38
Format
Hardcover
Pages
256
Publisher
Unbound
Publication Date
January 1, 2018
ISBN-13
978-1783524044
Dimensions
4.5 x 0.8 x 7.25 inches
Weight
9.1 ounces
Description
"The perfect companion to the seasons." —India Knight Lia Leendertz is an award-winning garden and food writer. She writes a weekly column for the Telegraph , a monthly column for The Garden magazine and a long-running series on growing and eating seasonally for Simple Things magazine. She also contributes frequently to the Guardian and Gardens Illustrated . She is the author of several gardening books and the cookbook Petal, Leaf, Seed: Cooking with the garden’s treasures .
Features & Highlights
- Have you ever wondered why the moon is sometimes blue?
- The New Almanac
- revives the tradition of the rural almanac for those who want to connect with the seasons through gardening, eating seasonally, moon-gazing, foraging, celebrating feast days and picking seasonal flowers. It brings you the tools and inspiration you need to celebrate, mark and appreciate each month of the year.
- For each of the 12 months, award-winning gardener and food writer Lia Leendertz shares her practical guidance for expeditions, meteor-spotting nights and beach holidays, as well as stories about each month’s unique nature and folklore, and charts relevant to each month.
- Keep track of the phenomena of the universe with tables familiar to almanacs of the past: significant dates; phases of the moon; sunrise and sunset times; king tides; equinoxes, solstices and cross-quarter days; food in season; a forager’s guide; meteor showers, visible planets and lunar eclipses; festivities (Samhain, Wassailing, Divali, Midsummer) and more.
- Lia also shares her favorite recipes using seasonal ingredients and relating to each month’s festivity: Cider Cake for wassailing in January; Blood Orange Tart in February; Potato Kugel Gratin for Passover in April; Beltane Wine for May Day; Sticky Cinnamon Figs in September; and Soul Cakes at Hallowe’en.
- Filled with wonder,
- The New Almanac
- is a highly practical, historical and contemplative book to be enjoyed all year long, and it will have you looking forward to the next edition as the year draws to a close.
