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The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods
W. W. Norton
November 2002
On Sale: November 1, 2002
336 pages
ISBN: 0393323749
EAN: 9780393323740
Hardcover
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Self-Help Diet
In our molecules and in our dreams, we really are what we
eat. Eating close to home is not just a matter of
convenience -- it is an act of deeply sensual, cultural, and
environmental significance. Gary Paul Nabhan's experience
with food permeates his life as a first-generation Lebanese
American, as an avid gardener and subsistence
hunter-gatherer, as an ethnobotanist preserving seed
diversity, and as an activist devoted to recovering native
food traditions to restore the health of Native Americans in
the Southwest. To rediscover what it might mean to "know
your foodshed," he spent a year trying to eat only foods
grown, fished, or gathered within two hundred miles of his
home -- with surprising results. In Coming Home to Eat,
Nabhan draws these experiences together in a book that is a
culmination of his life's work -- and a vibrant portrait of
our essential human relation to the foods that truly nourish
us, affirming our bonds to family, community, landscape, and
season.
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