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An instant classic for a new generation of monkey-wrenching food activists. Food in America is cheap and abundant, yet the vast majority of it is diminished in terms of flavor and nutrition, anonymous and mysterious after being shipped thousands of miles and passing through inscrutable supply chains, and controlled by multinational corporations. In our system of globalized food commodities, convenience replaces quality and a connection to the source of our food. Most of us know almost nothing about how our food is grown or produced, where it comes from, and what health value it really has. It is food as pure corporate commodity. We all deserve much better than that. In The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved, author Sandor Ellix Katz (Wild Fermentation, Chelsea Green 2003) profiles grassroots activists who are taking on Big Food, creating meaningful alternatives, and challenging the way many Americans think about food. From community-supported local farmers, community gardeners, and seed saving activists, to underground distribution networks of contraband foods and food resources rescued from the waste stream, this book shows how ordinary people can resist the dominant system, revive community-based food production, and take direct responsibility for their own health and nutrition.… (mais)
This book was food politics at its best. Even though the author is not vegan, i still really respected his goal to educate the reader about all kinds of ways we can and should resist the corpratization of our agricultural systems. He informed me about everything from shopping locally to using traditional food preservation methods, to safetly eating roadkill. ( )
It had some really interesting information, especially one section about ethical meat and vegetarianism. A lot of it was preaching to the choir. I skimmed some of the chapters. There was a little article on eating bugs that just made me want to vomit, but other than that it was ok. I get really depressed when I think of how far we have to go to take back our food supply from factory farming and mass agriculture. ( )
A lot of familiar topics here (I really should stop reading these types of books - they're getting repetitive). Some of the areas that were new to me included the history of the criminalisation of cannabis and some of the stuff about fermented foods, for which Katz is well known. His perspective as a commune-living gay Jew was an interesting one, too. ( )
I recently came upon a bibliography of books on food with a common theme of sustainability -- I think it was in the New York Times Magazine, perhaps. I got a bunch of them out of the library. Some are excellent and others not so much or just weren't for me. One of those is [b:The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved|146252|The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved Inside America's Underground Food Movements|Sandor Ellix Katz|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172178372s/146252.jpg|141139]. The writing didn't draw me in, and perhaps my lifestyle is just too different from Katz's for his book to resonate with me. I did learn some things from the sections I read, such as that Maine is one of a relatively few states to allow the sale of unpasteurized apple cider. (Raw milk is also available at my local meat/dairy market.) But, this one's going back to the library unfinished; your results may differ. ( )
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
To people everywhere practicing cultural survival by keeping food traditions alive.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
I was inspired to write this book by two years of traveling around the United States and Australia talking to people about fermentation, following the publication of my previous book, Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods (Chelsea Green, 2003).
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
These activities ground us in the earth, and out of them grow health, abundance, community, and dreams of a better future.
An instant classic for a new generation of monkey-wrenching food activists. Food in America is cheap and abundant, yet the vast majority of it is diminished in terms of flavor and nutrition, anonymous and mysterious after being shipped thousands of miles and passing through inscrutable supply chains, and controlled by multinational corporations. In our system of globalized food commodities, convenience replaces quality and a connection to the source of our food. Most of us know almost nothing about how our food is grown or produced, where it comes from, and what health value it really has. It is food as pure corporate commodity. We all deserve much better than that. In The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved, author Sandor Ellix Katz (Wild Fermentation, Chelsea Green 2003) profiles grassroots activists who are taking on Big Food, creating meaningful alternatives, and challenging the way many Americans think about food. From community-supported local farmers, community gardeners, and seed saving activists, to underground distribution networks of contraband foods and food resources rescued from the waste stream, this book shows how ordinary people can resist the dominant system, revive community-based food production, and take direct responsibility for their own health and nutrition.
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