The Stop
Subtitle: how the fight for good food transformed a community and inspired a movement
By: Nick Saul and Andrea Curtis
Contributors: Curtis, Andrea
Publisher: Melville House Pub.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Brooklyn, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9781612193496
Subjects: Community gardens; Food banks; Food security
Description: "In 1998, when community worker Nick Saul became executive director of The Stop, it was like thousands of other food banks, offering canned handouts in a cramped, dreary, makeshift space. Today it is a thriving, internationally respected Community Food Center with gardens, kitchens, a greenhouse, farmers' markets, and a mission to revolutionize our food system. Their message is spreading: Jamie Oliver told his 750,000 Twitter followers that he'd traveled all over the world and never seen anything like The Stop; Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved, told Alternet he was 'blown away' by this model of an NGO--whose mission is to work for healthy food, strong communities and political empowerment.   In a voice that's 'never preachy' (Maclean's), Saul argues that we need a new politics of food in which everyone has a dignified, healthy place at the table."--From publisher description.
Notes: "First Melville House printings: September 2013"--T.p. verso.

Originally published: Toronto : Random House Canada, c2013.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-284) and index.
Table of contents: title: No one wants a handout; title: Gardens won't save the planet, but they'll make it a whole lot nicer place to live; title: All good parties end up in the kitchen; title: Poverty is ruthless; title: Change happens because people fight for it; title: Build a big tent; title: Eat the math; title: The power of food; title: The revolution must be funded; title: Food is a public good.