Good Food is Everybody's Business
Imagine: It’s 2:30 in the morning; trucks are pulling up to unload fresh fruits, vegetables, meat, cheese, flowers, and more. Chefs and wholesalers make deals with a handshake and crates of produce and other food products are loaded into vans and lorries for delivery. While the rest of the world sleeps, the wholesale market is awake and doing business.
How do you grow it? How do you harvest it? How do you prepare it? Here are three references that will help you learn more about veggies like red runner beans, New Zealand spinach (one of our favorites), black radishes, purple potatoes, kohlrabi (another on our “like” list), fennel (the herb and the vegetable), and rainbow-colored carrots.
Check out the recipe for Italian boules in Home Baking – found on page 178. A word of warning first: if you have a small family (there are just two of us) cut this recipe in half right away. Who needs four great big loaves to try to store?
A call to action for those who are concerned about what they eat and the health of the planet, Recipe for America shows how sustainable eating nourishes our bodies, our economy, and our environment, making it the best hope for the future of food in America.
E.F. Schumacher’s collection of essays, Small is Beautiful, was published in response to the 1973 energy crisis and increasing globalization. His ideas predate today’s environmental destruction and economic collapse by four decades and yet the solutions he offers are both practical and practicable.
You’d have to have your head in the dirt to miss all the garden books in every bookstore and garden center, not to mention on the Internet. Inspiring for sure! But this selection is not your garden-variety garden books! We’ve chosen seven books from the GoodFood World personal library not to help you design, construct, and grow your garden. They are to inspire your thinking.
The Farm Bill is anything but bureaucratic trivia. Rather, it’s is an essential economic and policy engine that drives the food and farming system. The Farm Bill matters! To be informed is to be armed…
Atina Diffley is the neighbor we didn’t know we had! Her new book, Turn Here Sweet Corn, is heart-felt, heart-warming, heart-stopping, and in the end heart-soaring! Ms. Diffley is clearly a poet speaking from her heart and yet has a steel backbone when it comes to meeting the challenges of nature, changing land use, and encroachment by the world’s most notorious polluters, Koch Industries.
