The Stop how the fight for good food transformed a community and inspired a movement
"In 1998, when community worker Nick Saul became executive director of The Stop, it was like thousands of other food banks, offering canned handouts in a cramped, dreary, makeshift space. Today it is a thriving, internationally respected Community Food Center with gardens, kitchens, a greenhous...
| Main Author: | Saul, Nick. |
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| Other Authors: | Curtis, Andrea. |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Brooklyn, NY :
Melville House Pub.,
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: |
"In 1998, when community worker Nick Saul became executive director of The Stop, it was like thousands of other food banks, offering canned handouts in a cramped, dreary, makeshift space. Today it is a thriving, internationally respected Community Food Center with gardens, kitchens, a greenhouse, farmers' markets, and a mission to revolutionize our food system. Their message is spreading: Jamie Oliver told his 750,000 Twitter followers that he'd traveled all over the world and never seen anything like The Stop; Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved, told Alternet he was 'blown away' by this model of an NGO--whose mission is to work for healthy food, strong communities and political empowerment. In a voice that's 'never preachy' (Maclean's), Saul argues that we need a new politics of food in which everyone has a dignified, healthy place at the table."--From publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: |
xviii, 299 p. 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781612193496 1612193498 |
| Author Notes: |
ANDREA CURTIS is an award-winning writer and editor. Her family memoir, Into the Blue: Family Secrets and the Search for a Great Lakes Shipwreck , won the the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. Curtis's first children's book is What's for Lunch? How Schoolchildren Eat Around the World . www.andreacurtis.ca |