Now let me be crystalline, for the most part, I don’t want to do these things. I can’t sew or build or grow. I have a new found canning obsession, but it’s for fun, not survival. I just like the idea of doing all these things. I like the figurativeness of our foremothers carefully tending their corn crop, gratefully harvesting its bounty, shucking all those silky ears and turning them into tasty meals. These are the women who can crank out biscuits and breads in mass quantities, by touch and feel and eye. Again, I am not one of these women, but this programme harks to that literary longing in me. The combination of freshly shucked corn and old-fashioned buttermilk biscuits.

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