#Food-movement

John Brueggemann.  Food for the Future: Beautiful Stories from the Alternative Agro-Food Movement.  Lexington Books, 2023. I did a blurb for this book: Sociologist John Brueggemann examines the stories of people actively engaged in today’s small-scale food and farming movement toward healthier

Margo Anne Kelley.  Foodtopia: Communities in Pursuit of Peace, Love & Homegrown Food.  Godine, 2022.   I was asked to do a blurb for this book and readily agreed. Foodtopia gives us a generous overview of Americans’ historic and contemporary involvement in utopian communities through the

This book was especially interesting to me because I know some of the players and reading it told me a lot about their backgrounds and accomplishments.  It deals with several New York City-based organizations, among them United Bronx Parents, the Park Slope Food Coop, God’s Love We Deliver, and,

Friday October 11 was World Obesity Day, which explains why so many groups are issuing reports on obesity prevalence, risks, costs, and prevention strategies. I wrote about the one from the Trust for America’s Health, The State of Obesity, a few weeks ago. Here are three more, just in. 1.  The

Johsua Sbicca.  Food Justice Now!  Deepening the Roots of Social Struggle.  University of Minnesota Press, 2018. This book is about how to turn the “eat-better” food movement into a movement for social justice.  It directly addresses the complaint that the food movement has no real power.