Blessing the Hands That Feed Us
What Eating Closer to Home Can Teach Us About Food, Community, and Our Place on Earth
New York : Viking, 2014.
Format: Book
Description: xiii, 334 pages : map ; 22 cm
Documents the author's efforts to eat food produced within ten miles of her home in Puget Sound, Washington, exposing the cause-and-effect consequences of a processed-foods diet while sharing the stories of the farmers she befriended who epitomized the sustainable lifestyle.
Contents:
Localize me? -- Putting my mouth where my mouth is -- Yes! But how? -- Week one: Grounded! -- Week two: Getting the hang of it -- Week three: The week of my discontent -- Revelations of the final week -- Relational eating -- Bringing our eating closer to home -- Continued blessing.
Subjects:
Local foods -- Washington (State) -- Whidbey Island.
Community-supported agriculture -- Washington (State) -- Whidbey Island.
Self-reliant living -- Washington (State) -- Whidbey Island.
Whidbey Island (Wash.) -- Social conditions.
Local foods -- Washington (State) -- Whidbey Island.
Community-supported agriculture -- Washington (State) -- Whidbey Island.
Self-reliant living -- Washington (State) -- Whidbey Island.
Whidbey Island (Wash.) -- Social conditions.
ISBN:
9780670025725
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| Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
| SOCIAL SCI Cultures Food Rob | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
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Preface by Frances Moore Lappe and Anna Lappe.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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