Tamar Haspel on First-Hand Food

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🗓️ 28 February 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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What did author and Washington Post columnist Tamar Haspel learn from her quest to eat at least one thing she'd grown, caught, or killed every day? For starters, that just-caught fish always tastes better (unless you've caught a false albacore). That all it takes to build a coop is the will and the right power tools, and that when it comes to homegrown produce, you've got none until you've got way too much. But most of all, she tells EconTalk's Russ Roberts in talking about her book To Boldly Grow, she learned that figuring stuff out to solve problems is more delicious than the most decadent of desserts.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics
0:07.0	and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
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0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.3	We'd love to hear from you.
0:37.8	Today's February 8th, 2022, and my guest is author and columnist, Tamara Haspel, of the
0:43.6	Washington Post, her latest book in the topic of today's conversation, is to boldly grow,
0:51.1	finding joy, adventure, and dinner in your own backyard.
0:54.0	Tamara, welcome back to econtalk.
0:56.8	It's great to be back, Russ.
0:58.7	This is Tamara's second appearance.
1:00.0	She was here in July of 2017.
1:04.2	This is a long ago.
1:05.9	Yeah, I know.
1:06.9	Well, it's COVID and everything.
1:07.9	There are a lot of things to make life and timing difficult.
1:13.0	I found this to be a very charming and surprisingly moving book.
1:17.5	It is a story of what you call first-hand food.
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