Agriculture is now inextricably linked to climate change. The evidence is incontrovertible; the damage is already taking place. As Laura Lengnick observes in the opening pages of her updated and expanded second edition of Resilient Agriculture, (New Society Publishers, Gabriola … [Read more...] about Cultivating Food Systems For A Changing Climate Happening Now
Book Reviews
Nurturing Soil Life: Essential For Producing Healthy Crops and Animals
What Your Food Ate, How to Heal Our Land And Reclaim Our Health (W.W. Norton & Company, New York, N. Y. 2022) is the startlingly portentous title of a new study by the married team of David Montgomery and Anne Biklé, a book that takes a remarkably thorough look at how and why … [Read more...] about Nurturing Soil Life: Essential For Producing Healthy Crops and Animals
Food-focused Picture Books Inspire Home Cook To Make Ukrainian Dumplings
Dumpling Day (Barefoot Books, Concord, MA, 2021), a children's book described by its author Meera Sriram as "For little kitchen helpers everywhere," is a book for a family to treasure, and to have handy, especially for a rainy day when the young ones need some positive … [Read more...] about Food-focused Picture Books Inspire Home Cook To Make Ukrainian Dumplings
Soup Kitchen Gastrophilanthropy That Enlightens, Entertains & Wins Your Heart
Stung with an attack of middle-class guilt, Stephen Henderson sought to expiate by helping to cook meals at a variety of soup kitchens around the world. Bringing a home-gourmet sensibility to these excursions, when placed in charge he designed menus not necessarily conducive to … [Read more...] about Soup Kitchen Gastrophilanthropy That Enlightens, Entertains & Wins Your Heart
Picture Book Artfully Spotlights Alice Waters (Author, Environmentalist & Mother of Farm-To-Table Dining)
Alice Waters is the subject for a just published children's picture book biography, which in 48 artful pages, captures the important message for young (and old) that fresh, local, and organic food is the delicious way to a better life in harmony with nature. Alice Waters Cooks … [Read more...] about Picture Book Artfully Spotlights Alice Waters (Author, Environmentalist & Mother of Farm-To-Table Dining)
