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169 Notes on sources preface “The access road was hemmed in”: Katherine Cole, “Advocates of ‘UltraOrganic ’ Farming Say It Creates Better Wines.” The Oregonian, June 8, 2003, p. L7. introduction epigraph: Cole Porter, “You Do Something to Me,” from Fifty Million Frenchmen, 1929. Reprinted with permission from Alfred Music Publishing. “the season when the Earth is most inwardly alive”: Rudolf Steiner, Spiritual Foundations for the Renewal of Agriculture, trans. Catherine E. Creeger and Malcolm Gardner, ed. Malcolm Gardner (Kimberton, Pennsylvania: BioDynamic Farming and Gardening Association, Inc., 1993), p. 73. “with quartz that has been ground”: Ibid., p. 74. “enliven the soil”: Ibid. “For this observer, biodynamic processes”: Matt Kramer, Matt Kramer on Wine: A Matchless Collection of Columns, Essays, and Observations by America’s Most Original and Lucid Wine Writer (New York: Sterling Epicure, 2010), p. 117. chapter one epigraph: The Hummingbird’s Daughter, by Luis Alberto Urrea (New York: Little Brown and Company, 2005(, p. 97, 99. Persia had a winemaking tradition: Gregory McNamee, Movable Feasts: The History, Science, and Lore of Food (Westport: Praeger Publishers, 2007), p. 92. “resist the so-called menace of communist encroachment”: Ahmad Ashraf, “From the White Revolution to the Islamic Revolution,” in Iran after the Revolution: Crisis of an Islamic State, ed. Saeed Rahnema and Sohrab Behdad (London: I.B. Tauris & Co., 1996), p. 22. Archaeologists place the first use: Peter Bellwood, First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005), p. 51. As far back as the sixth millennium: Robert Chadwick, First Civilizations: Ancient Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt (London: Equinox, 2005), p. 112. The Greeks of antiquity: Richard G. Olson, Technology and Science in Ancient Civilizations (Santa Barbara: Greenwood, 2010), p. 96. gave us the poet Hesiod: Monty Waldin, Biodynamic Wines (London: Mitchell Beasley, 2004), p. ix. “Do not rise or sit or eat”: Steven J. Williams, The Secret of Secrets: The Scholarly Career of a Pseudo-Aristotelian Text in the Latin Middle Ages (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003), p. 12, 16. Continuing a tradition seven millennia old: Mauro Ambrosoli, The Wild and the Sown: Botany and Agriculture in Western Europe, 1350-1850, trans. Mary McCann Salvatorelli (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), p. 32, 77. “Crop failures might occur as often”: Ken Albala, Food in Early Modern Europe (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2003), p. 8. voodoo vintners 170 “Sow peason and beans in the wane”: Thomas Tusser, Some of the Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, ed. H.M.W. (Oxford: John Henry Parker, reprinted 1847), p. 66. “in the best of situations”: Albala, p. 13. “The appearance of a few drops”: Tom Standage, An Edible History of Humanity (New York: Walker & Company, 2009), p. 199. “The scheme for the constant improvement”: Ambrosoli, p. 396. “A careful study of the condition”: Frank D. Gardner, Traditional American Farming Techniques (Guilford, Connecticut: The Lyons Press, 2001; original title Successful Farming, published by L.T. Myers in 1916), p. 72. According to the National Center for Farmworker Health: “Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Demographics” (Buda, Texas: National Center for Farmworker Health, Inc., 2009), p. 1. “…The fact remains that the man who made possible a dramatic expansion of the food supply”: Standage, p. 212. chapter two The only remotely meaty tome: Gary Lachman, Rudolf Steiner: An Introduction to His Life and Work (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2007). At the same time, young Rudolf: Steiner, Autobiography: Chapters in the Course of My Life: 1861-1907 (Great Barrington, MA: SteinerBooks), p. 5. Footnote #37: Rudolf Steiner, The Influences of Lucifer & Ahriman: Five Lectures by Rudolf Steiner (Hudson, NY: Anthroposophic Press, 1993), p. 9. References to “devil” and “Satan” in Footnote #37: Rudolf Steiner, ed. Robert A. McDermott, The Essential Steiner: Basic Writings of Rudolf Steiner (Edinburgh: Floris Books, 1996), p. 374. “Although decidedly Germanic”: Lachman, p. 6. according to a 2008 study: Nicholas Epley et al., “Creating Social Connection Through Inferential Reproduction: Loneliness and Perceived Agency in Gadgets, Gods, and Greyhounds,” Psychological Science 19:2 (February 2008), pp. 114-20. There must have been something in the water: As discussed by author Thomas G. West in Thinking Like Einstein: Returning to Our Visual Roots with the Emerging Revolution in Computer Information Visualization (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2004) and In the Mind’s Eye: Visual Thinkers, Gifted People With Dyslexia and Other Learning Difficulties, Computer Images and the Ironies of Creativity (Amherst: Prometheus Books, 1997). Unlike Tesla, Steiner didn’t have visions: Lachman, p. 149. “Of all the spiritual thinkers of the twentieth...

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