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When this Manhattan food writer reluctantly moved to rural Colorado to satisfy her discontent husband, she discovered that the best food is found in our own backyards. She shares her story and more than 100 homegrown recipes, such as Fried Zucchini Blossoms with Cilantro Mayonnaise.

Publisher's Remarks:
Eugenia Bone was perfectly happy with her life as a New York City food writer, but she knew that her husband, a transplanted westerner, was filled with a discontent he couldn't explain. So when he returned from a fishing trip in the Rockies one day and announced that he wanted to buy a forty-five-acre ranch in Crawford, Colorado (population 255), she reluctantly said yes. Then she loaded imported pasta, artichokes in oil, and cured Italian salami into her duffle bag and headed west with her two young children.
At Mesa's Edge is the witty, often moving story of ranch restoration and of struggles with defiant skunks, barbed wire, marauding cows, and loneliness. Eugeni