Blessing the Hands That Feed Us: What Eating Closer to Home Can Teach Us About Food, Community, and Our Place on Earth - Hardcover

Robin, Vicki

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670025720 ISBN 13: 9780670025725

Publisher: Viking Pr, 2014

Synopsis

Title: Blessing the Hands That Feed Us( What Eating Closer to Home Can Teach Us about Food Community and Our Place on Earth) <>Binding: Hardcover <>Author: VickiRobin <>Publisher: Viking

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"Vicki Robin has helped millions of Americans reshape their lives in sound and beautiful ways, but this may be her most important project yet--and a crucial one for our tired planet too!"--Bill McKibben, author "Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist"
"Vicki Robin is a national treasure--a source of wisdom and uncommon sense now directed at the most basic of basics: how and what we eat and how that connects to our health, prosperity, and prospects . . . The ten-mile diet should be national policy!"--David Orr, Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics at Oberlin
"Vicki Robin's "Blessing the Hands that Feed Us" is part how-to manual for eating 'hyperlocal' in an era where we can eat whatever we want at any time of day and part homage to the farmers around the globe who grow our food. I'm inspired not only by Robin's commitment to her own diet, but also her ability to tell the story meal-by-meal and farmer-by-farmer about why we should all be looking more closely at our own diets. Without preaching, Robin shows readers the nutritional, health, environmental, and social benefits of knowing exactly where our food comes from."--Danielle Nierenberg, Co-Founder of Food Tank: The Food Think Tank
"Whether you're a vegan, vegetarian or eat some meat, this book can show you how and why to include 'local' on your list of important food values. Discovering the food of your bioregion, meeting your local farmers, sharing meals with friends, building community through food--all of this is part of personal and planetary health."--John Robbins, author of "Diet for a New America and co-founder of The Food Revolution Network"
"Vicki Robin is like a Mohandas Gandhi of the 21st Century, modeling a self-reliant lifestyle that can end the violence our industrial food system exacts again our health, our communities, our ecosystems, and our relationships. Her moving story of how she localized her eating habits accom

"An entertaining and informative memoir/self-help guide to living well on locally grown food." "--Kirkus Reviews"
"Vicki Robin has helped millions of Americans reshape their lives in sound and beautiful ways, but this may be her most important project yet--and a crucial one for our tired planet too!"--Bill McKibben, author "Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist"
"Vicki Robin is a national treasure--a source of wisdom and uncommon sense now directed at the most basic of basics: how and what we eat and how that connects to our health, prosperity, and prospects . . . The ten-mile diet should be national policy!"--David Orr, Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics at Oberlin
"Vicki Robin's "Blessing the Hands that Feed Us" is part how-to manual for eating 'hyperlocal' in an era where we can eat whatever we want at any time of day and part homage to the farmers around the globe who grow our food. I'm inspired not only by Robin's commitment to her own diet, but also her ability to tell the story meal-by-meal and farmer-by-farmer about why we should all be looking more closely at our own diets. Without preaching, Robin shows readers the nutritional, health, environmental, and social benefits of knowing exactly where our food comes from."--Danielle Nierenberg, Co-Founder of Food Tank: The Food Think Tank
"Whether you're a vegan, vegetarian or eat some meat, this book can show you how and why to include 'local' on your list of important food values. Discovering the food of your bioregion, meeting your local farmers, sharing meals with friends, building community through food--all of this is part of personal and planetary health."--John Robbins, author of "Diet for a New America and co-founder of The Food Revolution Network"
"Vicki Robin is like a Mohandas Gandhi of the 21st Century, modeling a self-reliant lifestyle that can end the violence our industrial food system exacts again our he

About the Author:

VICKI ROBIN is a renowned innovator, writer, and speaker. In addition to coauthoring the bestselling Your Money or Your Life, Robin has been at the forefront of the sustainable living movement. She has received awards from Co-Op America and Sustainable Northwest and was profiled in Utne Magazine’s book Visionaries: People and Ideas to Change Your Life. She lives on Whidbey Island in Washington.

FRANCES MOORE LAPPE is the author of numerous books, including the multimillion copy bestseller Diet for a Small Planet. With her daughter, ANNA LAPPE, she cofounded the Small Planet Institute and the Small Planet Fund to address issues of hunger and poverty.

VICKI ROBIN is a renowned innovator, writer, and speaker. In addition to coauthoring the bestsellingYour Money or Your Life, Robin has been at the forefront of the sustainable living movement. She has received awards from Co-Op America and Sustainable Northwest and was profiled inUtne Magazine’s book Visionaries: People and Ideas to Change Your Life. She lives on Whidbey Island in Washington.

FRANCES MOORE LAPPE is the author of numerous books, including the multimillion copy bestsellerDiet for a Small Planet. With her daughter, ANNA LAPPE, she cofounded the Small Planet Institute and the Small Planet Fund to address issues of hunger and poverty.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0670025720
• ISBN 13: 9780670025725
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 334