From the Good Earth: A Celebration of Growing Food Around the

From the Good Earth: A Celebration of Growing Food Around the World

The magnificent photographs capture some timeless, placeless essence about tending crops. [Ableman] stuns us with his photographic images: the drama of terraced fields in the Peruvian Andes which seem to reach into the sky, Hopi Indians in the American desert winnowing red beans, mirrored almost exactly by a Karen tribeswoman in northern Thailand, and a refreshing, lush image from Burundi of picturesque round thatched huts in a sea of verdant Green. The physical journey is paralleled by a spiritual one ... there is infectious optimism ... and a colourful worldwide celebration of the glories of harvesting, marketing, cooking and eating.

From the Good Earth: A Celebration of Growing Food Around the World