If the Iron Could Talk

By Jon C. Cawley

An experiment in Resilience and Local Culture, "If the Iron Could Talk" looks deeply and reverently at regional food traditions of Eastern America, from New England to the Deep South. The personal voices and experiences of Dr. Cawley and his Environmental Studies Students speak from these pages in heartfelt and surprising ways. The tale documents, at a human scale, the making and use of iron cooking pots and pans through the Colonial Period, and the conversion of great primordial forests of the east into charcoal iron for the kitchen. Follow these thoughtful eyewitnesses as they venture along the Great Wagon Road, and try their modern hands at colonial models of self-sufficiency and community building. Here is an exploration of what counts to a new generation in Transition, and why in some ways, a sustainable future looks quite a bit like our locally sustainable past. "If the Iron Could Talk" is a book for both the Hearth-stone, and for the Heart.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1500590347
• ISBN13: 9781500590345
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"