From Eugenia Bone, the critically acclaimed author of Mycophilia, comes an approachable, highly personal look at our complex relationship with the microbial world. 
While researching her book about mushrooms, Eugenia Bone became fascinated with microbes—those life forms that are too small to see without a microscope. Specifically, she wanted to understand the microbes that lived inside other organisms like plants...

Eugenia Bone, a Manhattan food writer, was perfectly happy with her life in New York City, but her husband, Kevin, was filled with formless discontent. So when he returned from a fishing trip in the western Rockies and told her he wanted to buy a forty-five-acre ranch in Crawford, Colorado (population 255), she reluctantly agreed. Then she did what any urban food lover would do: she loaded artichokes in oil, imported pasta, cured Italian salamis,...