Blessing the Hands That Feed Us: What Eating Closer to Home Can Teach Us About Food, Community, and Our Place on Earth (Thorndike press large print health, home and learning) - Hardcover

Robin, Vicki

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410468372 ISBN 13: 9781410468376

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2014

Synopsis

The bestselling coauthor of "Your Money or Your Life "chronicles her quest to eat food produced within 10 miles of her home Taking the locavore movement to heart, bestselling author and social innovator Vicki Robin pledged for one month to eat only food sourced within a 10-mile radius of her home on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound, Washington. Her sustainable diet not only brings to light society's unhealthy dependency on mass-produced, prepackaged foods but also helps her reconnect with her body and her environment. Like Barbara Kingsolver's "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" and the bestselling books of Michael Pollan, "Blessing the Hands That Feed Us" is part personal narrative and part global manifesto. By challenging herself to eat and buy local, Robin exposes the cause and effect of the food business, from the processed goods laden with sugar, fat, and preservatives to the trucks burning through fuel to bring them to a shelf near you. Robin's journey is also one of community as she befriends all the neighboring farmers who epitomize the sustainable lifestyle. Among them are Tricia, the prolific market gardener who issued Robin's 10-mile challenge; Britt and Eric, two young, enthusiastic farmers living their dream of self-sufficiency; and Vicky, a former corporate executive turned milk producer. Featuring recipes throughout, along with practical tips on adopting your own locally sourced diet, "Blessing the Hands That Feed Us" is an inspirational guide and testimonial to the locavore movement and a healthy food future.

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Review:

"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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1410468372
• ISBN 13: 9781410468376
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 607