Eat Here – Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket: 0 (Worldwatch Environmental Alert) - Softcover

Halweil, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393326640 ISBN 13: 9780393326642

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004

Synopsis

Everyone everywhere depends increasingly on long-distance food. Since 1961 the tonnage of food shipped between nations has grown fourfold. In the United States, food typically travels between 1,500 and 2,500 miles from farm to plate-as much as 25 percent farther than in 1980. For some, the long-distance food system offers unparalleled choice. But it often runs roughshod over local cuisines, varieties, and agriculture, while consuming staggering amounts of fuel, generating greenhouse gases, eroding the pleasures of face-to-face interactions, and compromising food security. Fortunately, the long-distance food habit is beginning to weaken under the influence of a young, but surging, local-foods movement. From peanut-butter makers in Zimbabwe to pork producers in Germany and rooftop gardeners in Vancouver, entrepreneurial farmers, start-up food businesses, restaurants, supermarkets, and concerned consumers are propelling a revolution that can help restore rural areas, enrich poor nations, and return fresh, delicious, and wholesome food to cities.

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Review:

Now it is up to the rest of us to do something with this amazing gift of a book.--Mark Ritchie, President of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy in Minneapolis

An insightful and timely book indicating just how important food, farms and rural cultures are.--Jules Pretty, author of Agri-Culture: Reconnecting People, Land, and Nature

Synopsis:

Advocate Halweil has never met a homegrown cabbage he did not like, and for good reason: growing locally, whether in one's own earth or through patronage of local professional producers, invariably results in food that tastes like food rather than bleached plastic. He cites the example of the "intercontinental lettuce" and the poor food quality (no

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0393326640
• ISBN 13: 9780393326642
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256