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Locavore Reading

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Definitions: A locavore is a person whose diet consists only or principally of locally grown or produced food (typically within a one hundred mile radius). The locavore movement combines concerns over how far our food travels from farm to table, medical studies concerning pesticides, chemical and genetic manipulation, and a renewed interest in supporting family farms. Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) cooperatives offer a spiritual, financial and personal connection to the origins of the members' food, including the opportunity to know your holiday turkey as a grain fed pasture bird from Old McDonald’s Farm rather than a brand name frozen bird from the McGrocery-Store.  As watershed defines the flow of water from its source, foodshed refers to the flow of food from farm to table.

 

The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost his Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden by William Alexander (2006)

This Common Ground: Seasons on an Organic Farm by Scott Chasky (2005)

Farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living by Doug Fine (2008)

Hit By a Farm: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn by Catherine Friend  (2006)

Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating by Jane Goodall (2006)

The Revolution will not be Microwaved: Inside America’s Underground Food Movements by Sandor Ellix Katz (2006)

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp (2007)

Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen by Anna Lappe (2006)

Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America’s Farmers' Markets by Deborah Madison (2002)

Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Food by Gary Paul Nabhan (2002)

How to Pick a Peach: The Search for Flavor from Farm to Table by Russ Parsons (2007)

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan (2006)

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan (2008)

The End of Food by Paul Roberts (2007)

Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally by Alisa Smith (2007)

It’s a Long Road to a Tomato: Tales of an Organic Farmer who Quit the Big City for the (not so) Simple Life by Keith Stewart (2006)

Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We Need to get it Back by Ann Vileisis (2008)

 

For More Information:

http://blog.oup.com/2007/11/locavore/

http://people.howstuffworks.com/locavore1.htm

http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/how-to-eat-like-a-locavore

http://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/pubs/csa/csa.shtml

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