<DIV><P><B>A tantalizing memoir of the author’s love affair with farming, food, and a freckle-faced farmer—and her journey of self-discovery along the way.</B></P><P>Rochelle, a classically trained cook and aspiring food writer, was nursing a broken heart and frustrated with her yet-to-take-off career when she was assigned to write an article about a small, “full-diet” farm in central New York. It took just one day of moving hay bales, feeding pigs, and tapping maple sap for her to become hooked on farm life. The air was fresh, her muscles felt useful, and the smells from the kitchen where the farmhands gathered at the end of the day were intoxicating.</P><P>All these, plus a sweet, mysterious young farmer whose soulful gaze meets her own, set in motion <I>The Call of the Farm</I>. Rochelle Bilow’s enticing memoir charts the unexpected year that unfolds, as she immerses herself in life on the farm—helping to care for livestock, grow vegetables, work the farm-stand, and, as the designated cook, prepare each day’s meals. Bilow also sensitively portrays the arc of her passionate romance with that handsome freckled farmer. Honest, self-aware, and wonderfully tender, <I>The Call of the Farm</I> is for anyone who has daydreamed about farm life—or who has fallen too deeply in love.</P><P><B><I>With 20 recipes for farm-inspired fare—such as Whole Wheat Pancakes with Rhubarb Sauce, Crisped Potato Casserole with Shaved Chives, Blistered Tomato Gratin, Carrot and Parsnip Shepherd’s Pie</I></B></P></DIV>