DIRTY CHICK (FORMERLY TITLED: HOW YOUR ARTISAN FARM CAN GROSS YOU OUT AND KILL YOU)
Book ID/图书代码： 06840013B64989
English Summary/英文概要： Antonia Murphy’s hilarious debut, How Your Artisan Farm Can Gross You Out and Kill You, is a spoof on the organic and hobby farming craze has been sweeping nation after nation.Maybe you’ve experienced the sad wilting of homegrown parsley, tiny bugs swarming your pots of oregano, an unpleasant cheese-making incident or two, or a canning fiasco that resulted in mold and unexpected diarrhea. Or, maybe you just enjoy poking fun at all those woefully unprepared souls who buy books and watch tutorials on raising rooftop chickens (fresh eggs!) and bees (they need saving!).
Our romance with hobby farming is cooling as urbanites realize that growing their own food is hard, messy and often literally full of shit. Maybe there’s a reason our ancestors left the farm after all...
The back-to-the-land craze is ripe for a spoof, and arriving at precisely the right moment is Antonia Murphy. After moving from the US to New Zealand with her husband several years ago, Antonia took up residence on a small farm in rural New Zealand. Since then, she has learned how to slaughter a turkey, bottle-feed a calf, and impregnate a goat (but not personally).
Antonia knows well the perils of artisanal farming, how pesky botulism can ruin a wholesome family day of canning, and how chickens are simply gateway livestock toward unhealthier obsessions with lambs...(you’ll have to read to find out more). In Artisan Farm, she chronicles her family’s misadventures from the dark side of rural life with sharp wit and outrageous stories that will leave you howling.
ike other bestsellers such as Go the F*&K to Sleep and I Was Told There’d Be Cake, Artisan Farm is the first parody of its subject, a book that will resonate with millions and that makes a perfect gift for the Holly Hobby-Farmer or Roger Rooftop-Grower in your life.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 安東尼波登(Anthony Bourdain) 佐以 《美味關係》Julie Powell灑落的陽光 芬芳的泥土香 投身大自然
你是否也有耕於阡陌 自給自足之夢？
本書將粉碎你的所有夢想
人造食品讓人心驚，社會開始吹起回歸自然田園風氣，許多人嘗試自己種植食物，甚至養家禽家畜，想回歸自給自足吃的安心的古早時代。在田園裡辛勤耕種，彷彿未來也一併變的美好！
但本書作者，獲世界熱門博客網站Problogger 選為2013年最值得注目的前15大部落客Antonia Murphy說，你想的太美了。
請想想下列症狀是否符合妳：
- 曾垂淚看著自己呵護長大的歐芹枯萎
- 曾被繞著牛至嗡嗡飛的蟲蟲軍團嚇死
- 曾親手做過慘不忍睹的自製起司
- 吃過走味的自製罐頭，甚至因此「一瀉千里」
即使如此，仍有大批心懷大志的人買下DIY的書，例如「如何在屋頂養雞」（就可以拿到最新鮮的雞蛋！）或是「如何自己養蜜蜂」（蜜蜂快滅絕了需要保護！）。人們對業餘休閒農業有太多美好的想像，許多人到了真正親身體驗，才知道自己種食物根本是一件難上加難、累的半死、讓你聞起來像堆肥的苦差事。
Antonia Murphy幾年前和丈夫從美國移居至紐西蘭的小農場，開始了她的田園生涯。她從一個都市鄉巴佬，變成能不眨眼手刃火雞、用奶瓶餵小牛、給山羊配種的農人。
生活在這樣的環境，她深知田園生活並不如大部分人想像的如此美好，而是充滿風險、災難和徒勞無功：花上整個假日及全家人的努力一起做的罐頭，卻因為知識不足，所有成果都毀在小小的肉毒桿菌上。養雞也沒那麼浪漫，你可能置身於禽流感病毒的高度威脅中。
妳是否夢想著自給自足的美好生活？本書將預告達到夢想之前所必須跨越的絆腳石。
妳是否曾充滿抱負與熱情投入自耕，卻搞的滿頭灰？本書將是妳的患難之交。
(Eva)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Antonia Murphy lives and writes in Whangarei, New Zealand. She was recently named one of 15 bloggers to watch in 2013 by Problogger. With a voice both vulnerable and biting like Julie Powell’s, and gleefully sarcastic as Anthony Bourdain’s, she’s a narrator you won’t soon forget.
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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE
Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Rights sold: US/Gotham(at auction), Australia/New Zealand/Text Publishing(at auction)
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