Coming Home to Eat The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods

Name: Coming Home to Eat The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods
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ISBN: 9780393335057

ISBN-10: 0393335054

ISBN-13: 9780393335057

Edition: 2009

Authors: Gary P. Nabhan, Gary Nabhan, Gary P. Nabhan, Gary P. Nabhan

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â€œThe first manifesto of the local food movement, and it remains one of the bestâ€”eloquent, bracing, and full of vital information.â€ â€”Michael Pollan In the tradition of M. F. K. Fisher and Henry David Thoreau, Gary Paul Nabhan relates how his experience with food permeates his life as an avid gardener and forager, as an ethnobotanist and farmland conservation advocate, and as an activist devoted to recovering place-based heritage foods. Nabhan spent a year trying to eat only foods grown, fished, or gathered within 220 miles of his homeâ€”with surprising results. Already considered a landmark in the locavore movement, Coming Home to Eat â€œmakes us understand how finding and eating…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/6/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.83" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

He is a prize-winning author & naturalist, lives in Tucson, where he is director of conservation biology at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum & cofounder of Native Seeds/Search.