Eat Here: Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket

Eat Here: Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket
by Brian Halweil

Eat Here: Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket
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Author: Brian Halweil
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-11-17
ISBN: 0393326640
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
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Book Review: A Must Read!
Summary: 4 Stars

Well, this book was certainly interesting...but not so engaging for me as coming home to eat. There is a whole lot in this book that I was not aware of before reading it and while I understood that eating locally was preferable...until I read this, I only had a hit of the ideas behind they why of it all. It's a fairly quick read and I do think Halweil makes a compelling case for necessity of a return to a more local food economies. I think this is probably a book that everyone should read. I give it a solid A.

Summary of Eat Here: Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket

Eating locally is a growing movement that is good for your health-but even better for the planet.

Everyone everywhere depends increasingly on long-distance food. Since 1961 the tonnage of food shipped between nations has grown fourfold. In the United States, food typically travels between 1,500 and 2,500 miles from farm to plate-as much as 25 percent farther than in 1980. For some, the long-distance food system offers unparalleled choice. But it often runs roughshod over local cuisines, varieties, and agriculture, while consuming staggering amounts of fuel, generating greenhouse gases, eroding the pleasures of face-to-face interactions, and compromising food security. Fortunately, the long-distance food habit is beginning to weaken under the influence of a young, but surging, local-foods movement. From peanut-butter makers in Zimbabwe to pork producers in Germany and rooftop gardeners in Vancouver, entrepreneurial farmers, start-up food businesses, restaurants, supermarkets, and concerned consumers are propelling a revolution that can help restore rural areas, enrich poor nations, and return fresh, delicious, and wholesome food to cities.

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