Awards

• Winner of IACP Crystal Whisk Award (Literary Food Writing) 1996

Overview

"A lyrical, sensuous and thoroughly engrossing memoir of one critical year in the life of an organic peach farmer, Epitaph for a Peach is ""a delightful narrative . . . with poetic flair and a sense of humor"" (Library Journal). Line drawings."

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9780062510259

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With poetic flair and a sense of humor, Masumoto offers. . . the joys and frustrations of raising peaches. -- Library Journal

[A] beautifully written book. --Eating Well

Earthy, gentle, and sensuous. Mas Masumoto has a nice touch and charming perspective. --Kirkus Reviews [A] wonderful writer...[Masumoto] uses his farm as Thoreau did his. --Los Angeles Times What a gentle voice! . . .[It] feels like a breeze, or like fog on your skin. --Los Angeles Times Book Review [Masumoto is] a poet of farming and peaches. --New York Times Book Review Charming. --Gourmet With poetic flair and a sense of humor, Masumoto offers. . . the joys and frustrations of raising peaches. --Library Journal [A] beautifully written book. --Eating Well . . . lyrical . . .enough to make a peach lover drool and also weep...[A] charming tale. --Atlantic Monthly [Masumotos is] a poet of farming and peaches. --New York Times A peach of a book. --Publishers Weekly

. . . lyrical . . .enough to make a peach lover drool and also weep...[A] charming tale. --Atlantic Monthly [A] beautifully written book. --Eating Well Charming. --Gourmet What a gentle voice! . . .[It] feels like a breeze, or like fog on your skin. --Los Angeles Times Book Review [Masumoto is] a poet of farming and peaches. --New York Times Book Review [A] wonderful writer...[Masumoto] uses his farm as Thoreau did his. --Los Angeles Times With poetic flair and a sense of humor, Masumoto offers. . . the joys and frustrations of raising peaches. --Library Journal Earthy, gentle, and sensuous. Mas Masumoto has a nice touch and charming perspective. --Kirkus Reviews A peach of a book. --Publishers Weekly [Masumotos is] a poet of farming and peaches. --New York Times

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