num_pages: 336
description: The first manifesto of the local food movement and it remains one of the besteloquent bracing and full of vital information. Michael Pollan Since Coming Home to Eat was first published in 2001 the local food movement has exploded and more people than ever are going green in an effort to lead healthier more eco-friendly lives. Gary Nabhans year-long mission to eat only foods grown fished or gathered within 220 miles of his Arizona home offers striking and timely insights into our evolving relationship with food and placeand encourages us to redefine eating close to home as an act of deep cultural and environmental significance. As an avid gardener ethnobotanist preserving seed diversity and activist devoted to recovering native food traditions in the Southwest Nabhan writes of his long campaign to raise awareness about food with contagious passion and humor. 12 drawings
language: English
title: Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Food
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company