Excellent read! | The Encyclopedia of Country Living: An Old Fashioned Recipe Book

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	• The Encyclopedia of Country Living: An Old Fashioned Recipe Book Carla Emery Sasquatch Books, 1994 - 864 pages average customer review:based on 164 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great Resource...But So LARGE!!!!

Hey!

If you use this book as an encyclopedia, looking up details of things you are interested in in that moment, this book is wonderful. If you want to sit down and read, from cover to cover, about all the details to country life, you better be one stubborn, fast reader, because this book is hard to get through, hard to force your self to continue reading when you're continuously jumping topics, and extremely long. Not to mention, it's unwieldy to sit and read. Pretty soon your arms will start hurting.

The sheer amount of information alone, however, makes this book more than worth the price. You can learn about anything country you ever wish to know, with just this one book. Is it the only country living book you'll ever need? It depends on your personal nature and how you learn. If you aren't a person who needs something visual to help you get started, this is the perfect book for you. You won't need any other. If you need pictures and step-by-step instructions, you're going to need more books. However, there are a lot of great ones out there to choose from, so don't despair.

I think this book is great. I don't regret buying it at all. However, be aware that it is large, without much graphic representation or how-to processes. But then, it's an encyclopedia. Not a how-to handbook. I recommend this book to anyone who is starting a new life in the country with little to no knowledge of how to make it in that self-same environment. You'll find whatever knowledge you're lacking somewhere in this book, not to mention a thorough discussion about other projects you may be thinking of trying in your new home.

Hope this helps! Have a wonderful day!

Luv ya,
Tashi :)

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Excellent read!

I found this book to be outstanding. I read through it in about three days and I don't do that unless I'm fasinated with a book. I learned a lot from this book to the point that I want to start setting up my home homestead.

Overwhelming

This book has SO much information that it only serves to highlite how much I don't know. It's fascinating tho, I'm sure I'll refer back to it often throughout the years.

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Wow.

About two years ago, I started planning my self-sufficient life. About one year ago, I dove into that life head first. During the planning stages, this book was one of the first I came across. I read a very large portion of it. I'd start out being fascinated by soap-making, then I was curious about how to butcher a pig, then, perhaps after having eaten some rice, I thought, "I wouldn't want to live without rice, I wonder if I could grow it in Montana?" This is the value of this book, some (a little or a lot) information on almost everything! Sure, I then decided I needed more information or ideas on some topics and so I bought or checked out more specific volumes. This book, along with The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It and Notes from a country kitchen I highly recommend.

By the way, this lifestyle is tough! But, boy those homegrown potatoes are good. Hat's off to Carla Emery for doing it AND writing and updating a 900 page book about it over the course of 30+ years. Incredible.

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So much information, it's worth three times this amount!

I really can't speak enough good things about this book. This is a work of art that has taken decades to perfect. Anything and everything on how to be self sufficant with food and alot more.

No home is complete without this one-of-a-kind encyclopedia! For twenty years people have relied on the hundreds of recipes, instructions, and invaluable practical advice in this definitive classic on food, gardening and self-sufficient living. Whether you're in the city, the country, or somewhere in between, you'll find The Encyclopedia of Country Living indispensable.

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