Goat Song
Description
Goat Song tells about what it's like to live intimately with animals who directly feed you. As Kessler begins to live the life of a herder -- learning how to care for and breed and birth goats -- he encounters the pastoral roots of so many aspects of Western culture. Kessler reflects on the history and literature of herding, and how our diet, our alphabet, our religions, poetry, and economy all grew out of a pastoralist milieu among hoofed animals.
Kessler and his wife adapt to a life governed by their goats and the rhythm of the seasons. And their goats give back in immeasurable ways, as Kessler proves to be a remarkable cheesemaker, with his first tomme of goat cheese winning lavish praise from America's premier cheese restaurants.
In the tradition of Thoreau's Walden and Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Goat Song is both a spiritual quest and a compelling and beautiful chronicle of living by nature's rules.
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- Cover
- Colophon
- ALSO BY BRAD KESSLER
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- PART I Birth
- Prologue
- Beginnings
- Yearlings
- Pasture
- Herd
- Estrus
- Pan
- Service
- Paradise
- Labor
- PART II Milk
- Culture
- Udder
- Withholdings
- Kids
- Chèvre
- Provender
- The Milk Diary
- PART III Maturation
- Deflation
- Pathos
- Domestics
- Other
- Terroir
- Raw
- Transhumance
- Predation
- Scatology
- Prints
- PART IV Aging
- Pastorals
- Pilgrimage
- Affinage
- Artisanal
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
