Full name: Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food

Author: Wendell Berry Year: 2009 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Food, Non Fiction, Essays Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781582435435 158243543X

Only a farmer could delve so deeply into the origins of food, and only a writer of Wendell Berry’s caliber could convey it with such conviction and eloquence. Long before Whole Foods organic produce was available at your local supermarket, Berry was farming with the purity of food in mind. For the last five decades, Berry has embodied mindful eating through his land practices and his writing. In recognition of that influence, Michael Pollan here offers an introduction to this wonderful collection.Drawn from over thirty years of work, this collection joins bestsellers The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Pollan, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver, as essential reading for anyone who cares about what they eat. The essays address such concerns as: How does organic measure up against locally grown? What are the differences between small and large farms, and how does that affect what you put on your dinner table? What can you do to support sustainable agriculture?A progenitor of the Slow Food movement, Wendell Berry reminds us all to take the time to understand the basics of what we ingest. “Eating is an agriculture act,” he writes. Indeed, we are all players in the food economy. Similar books: Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal by Joel Salatin Fields of Plenty by Michael Ableman Tomatoland by Barry Estabrook Another Turn of the Crank by Wendell Berry The Third Plate by Dan Barber Holy Cows And Hog Heaven by Joel Salatin Folks, This Ain't Normal by Joel Salatin The End of Food by Paul Roberts The End of Food by Thomas F. Pawlick The Town That Food Saved by Ben Hewitt The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry The Great Movies by Roger Ebert A Slip of the Keyboard by Terry Pratchett Reflections by Diana Wynne Jones The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera Awake in the Dark by Roger Ebert The Cross of Redemption by James Baldwin The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit The Journey Home by Edward Abbey My Ears Are Bent by Joseph Mitchell