Full name: The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America's Underground Food Movements

Author: Sandor Ellix Katz Year: 2006 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Food, Non Fiction, Health Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781933392110 1933392118

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. Similar books: The American Way of Eating by Tracie McMillan Real Food/Fake Food by Larry Olmsted The Gospel of Food by Barry Glassner Not On the Label by Felicity Lawrence The Tastemakers by David Sax Slow Food Nation by Carlo Petrini The Way We Eat Now by Bee Wilson Coming Home to Eat by Gary Paul Nabhan Twinkie, Deconstructed by Steve Ettlinger The Great Food Gamble by John Humphrys Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal by Joel Salatin Holy Cows And Hog Heaven by Joel Salatin Slow Food by Carlo Petrini Waste by Tristram Stuart Fork It Over by Alan Richman Folks, This Ain't Normal by Joel Salatin Fateful Harvest by Duff Wilson The Art of Fermentation by Sandor Ellix Katz Real Food by Nina Planck Foodopoly by Wenonah Hauter