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Edible City, The

Edited by Christina Palassio, Alana Wilcox ...

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If a city is its people, and its people are what they eat, then shouldn’t food play a larger role in our dialogue about how and where we live? The food of a metropolis is essential to its character. Native plants, proximity to farmland, the locations of supermarkets, immigration, the role chefs can and should play in society - how a city nourishes itself makes a statement about the kind of city it ... Read more

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If a city is its people, and its people are what they eat, then shouldn’t food play a larger role in our dialogue about how and where we live? The food of a metropolis is essential to its character. Native plants, proximity to farmland, the locations of supermarkets, immigration, the role chefs can and should play in society - how a city nourishes itself makes a statement about the kind of city it
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Locavore

From Farmers' Fields to Rooftop Gardens-How Canadians are Changing the Way We Eat

by Sarah Elton ...

Strawberries in January, fresh tomatoes year-round and New Zealand lamb at all times -- these well-travelled foods have a carbon footprint the size of an SUV. But there is a burgeoning local food movement taking place in Canadian cities, farms and shops that is changing both the way we eat and the way we think about food.Locavore describes how foodies,100-milers, urbanites, farmers, gardeners and ... Read more

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Strawberries in January, fresh tomatoes year-round and New Zealand lamb at all times -- these well-travelled foods have a carbon footprint the size of an SUV. But there is a burgeoning local food movement taking place in Canadian cities, farms and shops that is changing both the way we eat and the way we think about food.Locavore describes how foodies,100-milers, urbanites, farmers, gardeners and
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The Stop

How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement

by Nick Saul, Andrea Curtis ...

FINALIST 2014 – Heritage Toronto AwardIt began as a food bank. It turned into a movement.In 1998, when Nick Saul became executive director of The Stop, the little urban food bank was like thousands of other cramped, dreary, makeshift spaces, a last-hope refuge where desperate people could stave off hunger for one more day with a hamper full of canned salt, sugar and fat. The produce was wilted and ... Read more

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FINALIST 2014 – Heritage Toronto AwardIt began as a food bank. It turned into a movement.In 1998, when Nick Saul became executive director of The Stop, the little urban food bank was like thousands of other cramped, dreary, makeshift spaces, a last-hope refuge where desperate people could stave off hunger for one more day with a hamper full of canned salt, sugar and fat. The produce was wilted and
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The Trouble with Brunch

Work, Class and the Pursuit of Leisure

by Shawn Micallef ...

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One of The Globe and Mail's Globe 100: Best Books of 2014Every weekend, in cities around the world, bleary-eyed diners wait in line to be served overpriced, increasingly outrÃ© food by hungover waitstaff. For some, the ritual we call brunch is a beloved pastime; for others, a bedeviling waste of time. But what does its popularity say about shifting attitudes towards social status and leisure? In ... Read more

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One of The Globe and Mail's Globe 100: Best Books of 2014Every weekend, in cities around the world, bleary-eyed diners wait in line to be served overpriced, increasingly outrÃ© food by hungover waitstaff. For some, the ritual we call brunch is a beloved pastime; for others, a bedeviling waste of time. But what does its popularity say about shifting attitudes towards social status and leisure? In
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Consumed

Food for a Finite Planet

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What happens on this planet over the next four decades has the potential to fundamentally alter life as we know it. By 2050, the world’s population is expected to reach 9 billion people—that’s 9 billion hungry humans—while climate change increasingly interferes with the way we produce our food. At the same time, few of us know where that food comes from, let alone how to grow it, and we are at the ... Read more

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What happens on this planet over the next four decades has the potential to fundamentally alter life as we know it. By 2050, the world’s population is expected to reach 9 billion people—that’s 9 billion hungry humans—while climate change increasingly interferes with the way we produce our food. At the same time, few of us know where that food comes from, let alone how to grow it, and we are at the
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An Economist Gets Lunch

New Rules for Everyday Foodies

by Tyler Cowen ...

A leading economist, “who may very well turn out to be this decade’s Thomas Friedman” (Wall Street Journal), illuminates the state of American food todayTyler Cowen, one of the most influential economists of the last decade, wants you to know that just about everything you’ve heard about how to get good food is wrong. Drawing on a provocative range of examples from around the globe, Cowen reveals ... Read more

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A leading economist, “who may very well turn out to be this decade’s Thomas Friedman” (Wall Street Journal), illuminates the state of American food todayTyler Cowen, one of the most influential economists of the last decade, wants you to know that just about everything you’ve heard about how to get good food is wrong. Drawing on a provocative range of examples from around the globe, Cowen reveals
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The Moneyless Man

A Year of Freeconomic Living

by Mark Boyle ...

The astonishing reality of living without our most important resource: money.'An inspiring and entertaining guide to escaping the money trap and reconnecting with reality.' Paul Kingsnorth, author of Real EnglandImagine a year living without spending money...Former businessman Mark Boyle undertook this extraordinary challenge and recounts the amazing adventure it led him on. Going back to basics ... Read more

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The astonishing reality of living without our most important resource: money.'An inspiring and entertaining guide to escaping the money trap and reconnecting with reality.' Paul Kingsnorth, author of Real EnglandImagine a year living without spending money...Former businessman Mark Boyle undertook this extraordinary challenge and recounts the amazing adventure it led him on. Going back to basics
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A Greedy Man in a Hungry World

How (almost) everything you thought you knew about food is wrong

by Jay Rayner ...

The UK’s most influential food and drink journalist shoots a few sacred cows of food culture.Buying ‘locally’ does no good. Farmers’ markets are merely a lifestyle choice. And ‘organic’ is little more than a marketing label, way past its sell by date. This may be a little hard to swallow for the ethically-aware food shopper but it doesn’t make it any less true. And now the UK’s most outspoken and ... Read more

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The UK’s most influential food and drink journalist shoots a few sacred cows of food culture.Buying ‘locally’ does no good. Farmers’ markets are merely a lifestyle choice. And ‘organic’ is little more than a marketing label, way past its sell by date. This may be a little hard to swallow for the ethically-aware food shopper but it doesn’t make it any less true. And now the UK’s most outspoken and
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Lagom

Not Too Little, Not Too Much: The Swedish Art of Living a Balanced, Happy Life

by Niki Brantmark ...

Discover the lifestyle aesthetic being hailed as the new hygge in this "beautiful book filled with ways to balance life at home with the larger world" ( Library Journal).In a fast-paced world, wouldn't it be wonderful if you could slow down and enjoy a life with less pressure, less stress, and more time for the things you love?Sweden is ranked in the top three of the world's happiest places to ... Read more

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Discover the lifestyle aesthetic being hailed as the new hygge in this "beautiful book filled with ways to balance life at home with the larger world" ( Library Journal).In a fast-paced world, wouldn't it be wonderful if you could slow down and enjoy a life with less pressure, less stress, and more time for the things you love?Sweden is ranked in the top three of the world's happiest places to
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Accidental Chef

An Insider's View of Professional Cooking

by Chef Charles Oppman ...

Accidental Chef is a sobering account of what it's really like to be a professional chef, not the glamorized, sugar-coated depictions we see on cable television. This book offers a glimpse of what it really like to work in a hotel patry shop and a busy restaurant. When you read Accidental Chef you can't help feeling that you right there with Charles in the kitchen. Through his vivid descriptions ... Read more

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Accidental Chef is a sobering account of what it's really like to be a professional chef, not the glamorized, sugar-coated depictions we see on cable television. This book offers a glimpse of what it really like to work in a hotel patry shop and a busy restaurant. When you read Accidental Chef you can't help feeling that you right there with Charles in the kitchen. Through his vivid descriptions
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Lagom

The Swedish Art of Balanced Living

by Linnea Dunne ...

Step aside Hygge. Lagom is the new Scandi lifestyle trend taking the world by storm. This delightfully illustrated book gives you the lowdown on this transformative approach to life and examines how the lagom ethos has helped boost Sweden to the No.10 ranking in 2017's World Happiness Report.Lagom (pronounced 'lah-gom') has no equivalent in the English language but is loosely translated as 'not ... Read more

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A Year of Food Life

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“A profound, graceful, and literary work of philosophy and economics, well tempered for our times, and yet timeless. . . . It will change the way you look at the food you put into your body. Which is to say, it can change who you are.” — Boston GlobeFrom acclaimed author Barbara Kingsolver—recipient of numerous literary awards including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Humanities Medal, the Dayton ... Read more

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