Soulful Harvest - cooking in cadence with Mother Nature is an exciting, honest-to-goodness, full access pass to a culinary excursion like no other. Journey inside the workings of a busy, professional “farm to table” kitchen operation; experience a creative collection of recipes & reflections from Chef Timothy Grandinetti’s seasonal diary, a one-of-a-kind treasure that documents 365 delicious & memorable days on Overlook Farm. A return to cooking! ...surrounded by colleagues & gourmands, American farmers & gardners, hunters & conservationists, honey bees & ladybugs, foragers & gatherers, and all manner of farm beasts - great & small.
Spring - allows us to experience the enchantment of planting, allows us to understand the connection and celebrate the commitment - the cycles of nature, the circles that have no beginning or end… With the Crow Moon behind us, we revel in the beauty of the Pink Moon and patiently await the coming of May’s Flower Moon…
“To take what there is, and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this is doubtless is the right way to live.”
- Henry James
On any given day, an afternoon drive in the country, on many, many roads throughout the US, will reveal old barns collapsing in on themselves; old farm equipment sitting idle, rusting in the fields. The vista is a melancholy reminder of “days gone by”. Behold: the plight of the American Farmer! My reflections are inspired by this and many additional circumstances; including the writings, essays, and art forms of Robert Frost, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcel Proust, Rachel Carson, Vandana Shiva, and others.
“The farmers are the founders of civilization. Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts follow.” - Unknown