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Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket
W. W. Norton
December 2004
On Sale: November 30, 2004
236 pages
ISBN: 0393326640
EAN: 9780393326642
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Non-Fiction
Eating locally is a growing movement that is good for
your health—but even better for the planet. Everyone
everywhere depends increasingly on long-distance food. Since
1961 the tonnage of food shipped between nations has grown
fourfold. In the United States, food typically travels
between 1,500 and 2,500 miles from farm to plate—as much as
25 percent farther than in 1980. For some, the long-distance
food system offers unparalleled choice. But it often runs
roughshod over local cuisines, varieties, and agriculture,
while consuming staggering amounts of fuel, generating
greenhouse gases, eroding the pleasures of face-to-face
interactions, and compromising food security. Fortunately,
the long-distance food habit is beginning to weaken under
the influence of a young, but surging, local-foods movement.
From peanut-butter makers in Zimbabwe to pork producers in
Germany and rooftop gardeners in Vancouver, entrepreneurial
farmers, start-up food businesses, restaurants,
supermarkets, and concerned consumers are propelling a
revolution that can help restore rural areas, enrich poor
nations, and return fresh, delicious, and wholesome food to
cities.
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