Locavore's Handbook: The Busy Person's Guide To Eating Local On A Budget, First Edition - Softcover

Leda Meredith; Sandor Ellix Katz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0762755482 ISBN 13: 9780762755486

Publisher: Lyons Press, 2010

Synopsis

These days, nearly everyone wants to eat green and local, but tight schedules and even tighter budgets can make it seem like an unattainable goal. The Locavore's Handbook: The Busy Person's Guide to Eating Local on a Budget is here to help, as author Leda Meredith guides readers to incorporate locally grown foods into their own meals with practical, down-to-earth advice.

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About the Author

Leda Meredith is New York City’s leading locavore. She is the author of Botany, Ballet and Dinner from Scratch, a memoir with recipes about her year of eating only foods grown within a 250-mile radius of her home in Brooklyn, New York. She has been featured on The Martha Stewart Show and in the New York Times and New York Post. An instructor at the New York Botanical Garden and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, specializing in edible and medicinal plants, she details her locavore lifestyle on her blog, Leda’s Urban Homestead, at ledameredith.net/wordpress.

From the Back Cover

The essential guide for anyone with limited time, cash, and space who wants to incorporate locally grown foods into their lifestyle For most of us, it is not at all straightforward how to restore locavore ethics into our diets and our lives. With this book, Leda Meredith shows us where to start.--from the Foreword by Sandor Ellix Katz, author of Wild Fermentation and The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved These days, more people than ever want to eat green and local, but tight schedules and even tighter budgets can make this seem like an unattainable goal. The Locavore's Handbook is here to help! Leda Meredith offers practical, down-to-earth advice as she guides foodies, home cooks, and anyone else interested in the locavore movement through the process of incorporating locally grown foods into meals. Drawing from her own locavore experience, she discusses budgeting; sourcing, growing, and preserving food; shopping efficiently; and supporting local merchants and planet Earth. Everyone, including time-pressed, cash-strapped urbanites with mini-refrigerators and zero storage space, will find inspiration and a host of helpful ideas.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0762755482
• ISBN 13: 9780762755486
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208