Farm from Home: A Year of Stories from a City Girl in the Country by Amanda Brooks 2940172023453 Audiobook Digital
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Is a chronicle of the joys and challenges of a more focused way of living. The photographs, taken by the author, capture the extraordinary natural beauty of her English country life. Amanda, her husband Christopher, and their two children have created an idyllic existence where they spend their days gardening, raising and caring for animals, riding, farming, cooking and writing.
Throughout Maya Angelou's life, from her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas, to her world travels as a best-selling writer, good food has played a central role. Preparing and enjoying homemade meals provides a sense of purpose and calm, accomplishment, and connection. The Welcome Table, Angelou shares memories pithy and poignant, and the recipes that helped to make them both indelible and irreplaceable. People ask me all the time if my English country life is really as good as it looks on Instagram. As a highly visual person who majored in photography in college and then worked in fashion for twenty years, I am a self-admitted aesthetic perfectionist.
Loved this!!! Refreshing!
Creatively inspiring, warm and witty, and brimming with delicious recipes and entertaining how-tos,Farm from Homeis a chronicle of the joys and challenges of a more focused way of living. Creatively inspiring, warm and witty, and brimming with delicious recipes and entertaining how-tos, Farm from Homeis a chronicle of the joys and challenges of a more focused way of living. The book is set up by months starting in June, which was the month they moved to England. Each month Brooks takes readers through what that month is typically like on the farm - activities, recipes, photos, etc.
From New York style icon and fashion insider Amanda Brooks, a charming and inspiring meditation on life in her newly adopted home, a farm in the English countryside. In search of a quieter, simpler life away from the hustle of the city, style icon and longtime New Yorker Amanda Brooks moved with her family in 2012 from New York City to her husband's farm in England. Originally intended to be a yearlong creative sabbatical, Brooks's relocation became permanent as she discovered newfound personal and professional freedom, told here through a year's changing seasons. Creatively inspiring, warm and witty, and brimming with delicious recipes and entertaining how-tos, Farm from Home is a chronicle of the joys and challenges of a more focused way of living. For anyone who has longed for an escape from their hectic schedule, whether for a week, a year, or a lifetime, Brooks shares the unexpected satisfaction of slowing down, reconnecting with nature, and making the most of each day.
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Their farm is a piece of a larger piece of land where Christopher’s extended family lives so family is always nearby. Farm from Home includes recipes and most importantly, Amanda’s honest and thoughtful words as she shares all the highs and lows of her family's journey from New York City to the English countryside. Back when she was part of the fashion scene and writing for Vogue in the aughts she was one of those jet-set figures that seems impossibly glamorous, a life she recounts in Always Pack a Party Dress. But she left all that behind to move with her husband to his family farm in Oxfordshire to a life that has its own special glamour. The seasonal country life she describes month by month in this book is a much more homebody existence though no less privileged.
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I really enjoyed the ease of the writing, as well as the gorgeous photographs and inspiring recipes. Sadly the pictures are very small and there is a lot of text to tell not much. A lot of recipes that makes it more a cookbook then an inspiration for designing your home. Enjoy a great reading experience when you buy the Kindle edition of this book.
I loved this, but keep in mind it is very aspirational - Brooks, a former New York socialite, was the fashion director at Barneys, so hers is not a "normal" country life by any stretch of the imagination. I enjoyed Amanda Brooks' first book very much as she is obviously a very visually talented person, so I found it very odd that the whole design of this book is sort of drab. Many pictures are lovely, but it's just not the sumptuous book that I'd hoped. The idea was probably to make it comely like a Laura Ashley catalogue, but, like another reviewer, I miss some real glamour. The author has insistently branded herself as a very glamorous, native newyorker who is now doing her best to glam up the English countryside, but this book seems completely devoid of that glamour.
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The chapters are thorough descriptions of her family's home life on the farm that her husband has inherited, and while it is very earnest and there is an occasional interesting fact or observation about the English countryside/society/flora & fauna, it is also ... I would much rather rifle through stuff like this on a picturesque blog than in this stuffy, static, rather self-important format. Amanda Brooks is the author of I Love Your Style and Always Pack a Party Dress. She is currently a contributing editor at Condé Nast Traveler and Architectural Digest and has also written for The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, and British Vogue. The former fashion director of Barneys New York and creative director of Tuleh, she has appeared on Today, The Early Show, and National Public Radio.
We wanted to give ourselves a few months to settle in before the kids started at their new school, and we wanted plenty of time for American friends to visit us at the farm and help the kids realize that they would still be very much a part of our lives. We promised ourselves a week of solid unpacking and chore-doing, and then we would surrender to the ongoing new-life chaos enough to enjoy ourselves, our family, and our friends, and make sure to connect with all the wonderful reasons why we had chosen to live here. In this warm collection of personal essays and recipes, best-selling author Ann Hood nourishes both our bodies and our souls. From her Italian-American childhood through raising and feeding a growing family and cooking with her new husband, food writer Michael Ruhlman, Ann Hood has long appreciated the power of a good meal. Hood details recipes and more in Kitchen Yarns, along with tales of loss and starting from scratch, family love, and feasts with friends, and how the perfect meal is one that tastes like home.
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