Where Our Food Comes From

Where Our Food Comes From PDF Author: Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1597265179
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 261

Book Description
The future of our food depends on tiny seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, the great botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a Soviet prison. But in the years before Stalin jailed him as a scapegoat for the country’s famines, Vavilov had traveled over five continents, collecting hundreds of thousands of seeds in an effort to outline the ancient centers of agricultural diversity and guard against widespread hunger. Now, another remarkable scientist—and vivid storyteller—has retraced his footsteps. In Where Our Food Comes From, Gary Paul Nabhan weaves together Vavilov’s extraordinary story with his own expeditions to Earth’s richest agricultural landscapes and the cultures that tend them. Retracing Vavilov’s path from Mexico and the Colombian Amazon to the glaciers of the Pamirs in Tajikistan, he draws a vibrant portrait of changes that have occurred since Vavilov’s time and why they matter. In his travels, Nabhan shows how climate change, free trade policies, genetic engineering, and loss of traditional knowledge are threatening our food supply. Through discussions with local farmers, visits to local outdoor markets, and comparison of his own observations in eleven countries to those recorded in Vavilov’s journals and photos, Nabhan reveals just how much diversity has already been lost. But he also shows what resilient farmers and scientists in many regions are doing to save the remaining living riches of our world. It is a cruel irony that Vavilov, a man who spent his life working to foster nutrition, ultimately died from lack of it. In telling his story, Where Our Food Comes From brings to life the intricate relationships among culture, politics, the land, and the future of the world’s food.

Where Does Food Come From?

Where Does Food Come From? PDF Author: Gary Goss
Publisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 0822565242
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
Most young children consider the local supermarket the source for their food, and quite logically so. Urban children are especially uninformed when it comes to knowing what food looks like in its natural state: that French fries start as potatoes growing underground, that bread begins as grain on stalks in wheat fields, or that maple syrup is drawn from trees. This photo essay takes a look at a variety of childhood favorites, tracing different kinds of foods back to their source in words and photographs.

Where Does Our Food Come From?

Where Does Our Food Come From? PDF Author: Bobbie Kalman
Publisher: Bobbie Kalmans Leveled Readers
ISBN: 9780778795650
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Looks at different foods and where they come from.

From Paddock to Plate

From Paddock to Plate PDF Author: Louise FitzRoy
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 0733329640
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 17

Book Description
Travelling around Australia on food safari, Louise visited food producers of all descriptions and discovered the secrets of truffle finding, mango growing and fish farming. On her way she collected over 80 treasured recipes from local chefs, CWA members and the producers themselves, who have perfected ways of cooking their produce over many years.

Where Does Our Food Come From?

Where Does Our Food Come From? PDF Author: Debra Stilwell
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 1433963175
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26

Book Description
Most of the time we buy food from stores, but stores get the food from somewhere too. With the help of easy-to-follow text and detailed diagrams, readers will visit farms and follow food on its journey to farmers markets, factories, and stores. Readers learn how fresh foods are sold in markets and are also used to make the processed foods we buy in stores. Vibrant photographs make this book a visual feast.

Wholesome

Wholesome PDF Author: Sarah Graham
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 143230898X
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 390

Book Description
Author Sarah Graham says, ‘For me, this book is about putting goodness in, and getting goodness out. It’s about food that is conscious of refined sugars and refined carbohydrates, and that nourishes our minds and our bodies, but is still full of colour and character, and fits within the context of our busy lives. These are my favourite beautiful, simple, wholesome recipes that are made for sharing around full and merry tables.’ Following on from her previous books Bitten, Smitten and Home, Sarah has poured much love and care into writing more than just another recipe book; Wholesome is a guide to living well and eating mindfully.
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