Charlie Tennessen, the “Friendly Farmer” of Mount Pleasant, shares his seed to table approach to cooking on Anarchy Acres, the animal-powered homestead where Charlie grows much of the food that he eats. Sourdough bread made with nineteenth-century wheat, exquisite pizza baked in the farm’s wood-fired brick oven, and tacos created with home-grown tortillas are just a few of the recipes shared in this colorful book. Kitchen Chaos provides a road map for people, regardless of where they live, to participate more in their own food system. Health, well-being, and great taste all come together in these illustrated, easy-to-follow recipes. My favorite how-to or DIY books provide more than an authoritative, practical and accurate instructions to accomplish a task. They inspire and animate. In his book, Kitchen Chaos, Charlie Tennessen demonstrates how to grow and prepare your own food; he explains why it is a healthy alternative to buying it in a store; and finally, he shows what blessings are in store for you when you plant what you eat. It is a book that is easy to pick up and hard to put down. Well-organized with clear and concise sections that cover growing individual foods such as vegetables, honey, corn, and wheat, as well recipes for a variety of meals throughout the day, the book is also threaded together with a light-hearted authenticity for the subject matter. Charlie is passionate about what he does in his garden as well as his kitchen. And since he makes reading about home-raised food so much fun, Kitchen Chaos readers are made enthusiastic to give it a try in their own gardens and kitchens. -Joe Mischka, Rural Heritage Magazine Good basic recipes. The kind of recipes that might bring this generation of people, who seem to lost their to the kitchen, back home again. -David Kozlowski, Pinehold Gardens We are lucky to have a robust crop of passionate WISCO growers and millers who are reviving and reinventing our grain-y past, for the benefit of health and planet. Charlie at Anarchy Acres is one of our best revivalists. We are fortunate that he has distilled some of his best wisdom into this book so that we can all follow his lead, making unique local grains into food with rich flavor and deep soul. -Shawn Rediske, Water House Foods Charlie Tennessen lives and works on Anarchy Acres, a tiny donkey-powered farm in Mount Pleasant, WI.