Four Seasons Books

As the weather has warmed up, my thoughts have naturally drifted towards the great outdoors and gardening. I've recently come across a great new book called Landscaping with Fruit by Lee Reich. I've often wondered why more people didn't use fruit bearing plants to landscape their yards. Here's a copiously illustrated book that clearly shows how to get the double benefit of beauty and edible fruit from your plants. He tells you which plants are both ornamental and delicious and rates them on ease of growing. Reich is also the author of Weedless Gardening which I also highly recommend.

The best selling nonfiction book at Four Seasons Books in February was Michael Pollan's Food Rules. In two previous bestsellers, The Omnivore's Dillema and In Defense of Food, Pollan explored the environmental and health problems inherent in our contemporary food system, not the least of which is that much of what ends up in the supermarket is not "real" food, but "food-like substances." In Food Rules, Pollan distills much of what he's learned about what we should eat into simple sensible rules presented in bite-sized easily digestible chapters. The book is only 112 pages long.

My good friends, John Case and John Reed, have been featuring excerpts from Food Rules on the morning radio program, Winners & Losers, on Shepherd University's WSHC 89.7. (Mon. thru Fri., 7:30 to 9:30) Four Seasons Books sponsors the program. Check it out.

Mike