Locavore's Handbook
The Busy Person's Guide To Eating Local On A Budget
Published on 1. April 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-7627-5548-6 (ISBN)
Description
These days, nearly everyone wants to eat green and local, but tight schedules and even tighter budgets can make it seem like an unattainable goal. The Locavore's Handbook: The Busy Person's Guide to Eating Local on a Budget is here to help, as author Leda Meredith guides readers to incorporate locally grown foods into their own meals with practical, down-to-earth advice.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Guilford
United States
Publishing group
Rowman & Littlefield
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 189 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
444 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7627-5548-6 (9780762755486)
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E-Book
04/2010
Lyons Press
€14.83
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Persons
Leda Meredith is New York City's leading locavore. She is the author of Botany, Ballet and Dinner from Scratch, a memoir with recipes about her year of eating only foods grown within a 250-mile radius of her home in Brooklyn, New York. She has been featured on The Martha Stewart Show and in the New York Times and New York Post. An instructor at the New York Botanical Garden and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, specializing in edible and medicinal plants, she details her locavore lifestyle on her blog, Leda's Urban Homestead, at ledameredith.net/wordpress.
Content
Foreword by Sandor Katz, author of Wild Fermentation and The Revolution will not be Microwaved: Inside America's Underground Food Movements1. Introduction2. How Can Eating Great Food Save the World?3. Sourcing Local Food4. The Zero Miles Diet: Grow it Yourself5. Eating with the Seasons6. The Cost Factor7. The Convenience Factor8. Making Friends with Your Kitchen9. Food Preservation10. Feasting for Free11. The Single Locavore12. The Space-Challenged Locavore13. Afterword14. Appendix: Useful Resources15. What's In Season Chart16. Template for Your Pocket Locavore's Guide