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Blessing the hands that feed us : what eating closer to home can teach us about food, community, and our place on earth / Vicki Robin.

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Blessing the hands that feed us : what eating closer to home can teach us about food, community, and our place on earth / Vicki Robin.
Author
Robin, Vicki.
Publication
New York : Viking, 2014.

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Additional Authors
  • Lappé, Frances Moore.
  • Lappé, Anna, 1973-
Description
xiii, 334 p. : map; 22 cm
Summary
Documents the author's efforts to eat food produced within ten miles of her home in Puget Sound, Washington, exposing the cause-and-effect consequences of a processed-foods diet while sharing the stories of the farmers she befriended who epitomized the sustainable lifestyle.
Subject
  • Local foods > Whidbey Island
  • Community-supported agriculture > Whidbey Island
  • Self-reliant living > Whidbey Island
  • Community-supported agriculture
  • Local foods
  • Self-reliant living
  • Social history
  • Whidbey Island (Wash.) > Social conditions
  • Washington (State) > Whidbey Island
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Localize me? -- Putting my mouth where my mouth is -- Yes! But how? -- Week one: Grounded! -- Week two: Getting the hang of it -- Week three: The week of my discontent -- Revelations of the final week -- Relational eating -- Bringing our eating closer to home -- Continued blessing.
ISBN
  • 9780670025725
  • 0670025720
LCCN
  • ^^2013018397
  • 40023181837
OCLC
  • 844073997
  • SCSB-10581258
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Harvard Library