In their recent round up of the best cookbooks and food books of 2013, The Washington Post has selected Forrest Pritchard’s Gaining Ground: A Story of Farmer’s Markets, Local Food, and Saving the Family Farm among their favorites! Forrest Prtichard’s efforts to save his family farm, chronicled in Gaining Ground, includes hilarious encounters with all manner of livestock and colorful local characters. The crash-course in sustainable agriculture offers both foodies and wold-be farmers wonderful insight into the food-to-farm-to-table business that will make readers rethink how they cruise through their local grocery store.
