Saddleback Wife - Slow Food in Tasmania

<p>After watching too many television chefs from the safety of their sofa new Tasmanians Fiona and Oliver Stocker turned their five acres into a free range gourmet pig farm.</p><p>Raising Wessex Saddlebacks among the eucalyptus trees they took their premium pork to the local award-winning farmers' market. There they learned what it's like to be behind the counter in a food business. What's the most you can charge for a pork sausage? And what's it like to be called 'the pig lady'?</p><p>Struggling to keep business family and marriage together they found that things aren't always easy behind the farm gate. But they also found a deep love and respect for those most magnificent of creatures - pigs.</p><p>Saddleback Wife is a book for foodies and those who want to know more about where their food comes from. It's for anyone who wants a behind-the-scenes look at the foodie-haven of Tasmania and the pork 'underbelly' of farming life. It's also the story of two Saddleback sows called Rosie and Bella and a boar called Co-Pilot Bob.</p><p>Told with trademark wry humour and at times heart-breaking honesty Saddleback Wife is a story about the struggle to make a living from land and livestock and the reality behind the dream of gourmet farming.</p>