One Man's Meat

The Pulitzer Prizewinning writer and author of Charlottes Web documents his move from Manhattan to a saltwater farm in New England: Superb reading. The New Yorker Called a mid-20thcentury Thoreau by Notre Dame Magazine, E.B. Whites desire to live a simple life caused him to sell half his worldly goods, give up his job writing the New Yorkers Notes and Comment editorial page, and move with his family to a saltwater farm in North Brooklin, Maine. There, White got into the nuts-and-bolts of rural lifenot without a lot of self-reflectionand surrounded himself with barnyard characters, some of whom would later appear in Charlottes Web.One Mans Meat is Whites collection of pithy and unpretentious essays on such topics as living with hay fever (I understand so well the incomparable itch of eye and...