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BOTANY, BALLET AND DINNER FROM SCRATCH
By: Leda Meredith
A Memoir With Recipes
Heliotrope Books
July 2008
On Sale: July 15, 2008
ISBN: 0981619851
EAN: 9780981619859
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Non-Fiction Memoir
In Botany, Ballet and Dinner from Scratch: A Memoir with Recipes (Heliotrope Books, June 2008), New York City locavore Leda Meredith describes a year spent eating food grown only within a 250-mile radius of her home in Brooklyn, NY and the many factors that prompted her to do so.
Written with a profound respect for the earth, Meredith reveals ways of remaining connected to nature, including the sources of her food, while living a busy city life. Nowadays, many urbanites yearn for the locavore lifestyle. Meredith actually demonstrates the joys and travails of living it ... like preserving food in jars that were stored for months beneath her bed, as she described in a New York Times Metro Section article in August 2008 ... or foraging for edible plants in New York City parks.
Meredith's journey goes beyond New York to include her own old-world family vignettes and recipes as well as glimpses into other cultures she has visited as a ballet dancer on tour, and as a botanist. Always personal, with dry wit that does not wax "preachy," she explores the ecological losses entailed by transporting food from long distances, as well as the surprisingly delicious power of local cuisine. Her conclusion: "Why eat local? Because saving the world tastes good."
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