Farmer Boy

I've been re-reading Farmer Boy yesterday and today. I can only read it when I'm eating, though, which will slow down this re-read a bit. If you're curious about why I can only read it while I'm eating, then clearly you've never read it before. My SO says it's food porn, and he's not far wrong (though my mental Venn diagram puts porn of any kind far, far away from the Little House books). At one dinner, the first meal scene I found, Almanzo eats beans with salt pork in them, baked potato with gravy, ham, "velvety bread spread with sleek butter" (yeah, okay, the SO has a point), mashed turnips, stewed pumpkin, plum preserves and strawberry jam, grape jelly, pickles, and a large piece of pie.
Yeah, there's character development, and Almanzo has adventures - but really, the book could be called Farmer Boy: What Almanzo Ate, and How He Grew It, and that would be far more accurate.