Featuring recipes throughout, along with practical tips on adopting your own locally sourced diets, Blessing the Hands That Feed Us is a candid, humorous, and inspirational guide to the locavore movement and a healthy food future.
Vicki Robin is a renowned innovator, writer, and speaker,
presenting at TEDxSeattle in 2013. She is the coauthor of the
bestselling Your Money or Your Life. She lives on Whidbey Island in
Washington.
Frances Moore Lappe is the author of numerous books, including the
multimillion copy bestsellerDiet for a Small Planet. With her
daughter, Anna Lappe, shecofounded the Small Planet Institute and
the Small Planet Fund to address issues of hunger and poverty.
“Vicki Robin has helped millions of Americans reshape their lives
in sound and beautiful ways, but this may be her most important
project yet—and a crucial one for our tired planet too!”—Bill
McKibben, author Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely
Activist
“Vicki Robin is a national treasure—a source of wisdom and uncommon
sense now directed at the most basic of basics: how and what we eat
and how that connects to our health, prosperity, and prospects . .
. The ten-mile diet should be national policy!”—David Orr, Paul
Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics
at Oberlin
“Vicki Robin's Blessing the Hands that Feed Us is part how-to
manual for eating ‘hyperlocal’ in an era where we can eat whatever
we want at any time of day and part homage to the farmers around
the globe who grow our food. I'm inspired not only by Robin's
commitment to her own diet, but also her ability to tell the story
meal-by-meal and farmer-by-farmer about why we should all be
looking more closely at our own diets. Without preaching, Robin
shows readers the nutritional, health, environmental, and social
benefits of knowing exactly where our food comes from.”—Danielle
Nierenberg, Co-Founder of Food Tank: The Food Think Tank
"Whether you're a vegan, vegetarian or eat some meat, this book can
show you how and why to include ‘local’ on your list of important
food values. Discovering the food of your bioregion, meeting your
local farmers, sharing meals with friends, building community
through food—all of this is part of personal and planetary
health."—John Robbins, author of Diet for a New America and
co-founder of The Food Revolution Network
“Vicki Robin is like a Mohandas Gandhi of the 21st Century,
modeling a self-reliant lifestyle that can end the violence our
industrial food system exacts again our health, our communities,
our ecosystems, and our relationships. Her moving story of
how she localized her eating habits accomplishes the
impossible: It serves as a compelling manifesto of
localization—including hundreds of practical tips about how we can
become more self-reliant on local food—but also is an engaging,
delightfully enjoyable read. The book is a blessing, to be shared
with family, friends, neighbors, and anyone else you love.”—Michael
H. Shuman, author of Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Move
Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real
Prosperity
"Vicki Robin knows that honest, engaging food writing isn't really
about food. It's about friends, family, community, spirit, and
soil. It's about joy. This book gracefully contains all six in
equal measure."—Ben Hewitt, author of The Town That Food Saved: How
One Community Found Vitality in Local Food
"Want to find your way from the highway of overeating to the garden
of relational eating? Of course you do. For decades,
Vicki Robin has been out front, showing us a new path that is not
dependent upon mindless consumption. She has kept right on
going, all the way to her local food system. And what a
hopeful, healthy destination she has found, for her and for
everyone who wants to truly and beautifully take our country
forward."—Woody Tasch, Chairman, Slow Money
“A deeply personal and fun read that manages to both playfully and
honestly recount one woman’s journey into reconnection—with food,
with community, and with the land itself that feeds us.”—Nina
Simons, Co-Founder and President, Bioneers/Collective Heritage
Institute
"Vicki Robin has made an illuminating experiment that could help
lead us all closer to a sustainable world. I especially love the
way she weaves global issues into very personal, intimate stories
of her own experience."—Starhawk
“[A] call-to-action plan to buy local and live healthier and more
responsibly.”—Kirkus Reviews
“[Vicki Robin] realizes that ‘local’ is as much a state of mind as
a geographical location.”—Publishers Weekly
“[Blessing the Hands That Feed Us is] about discovering, with
gusto, the other end of the industrial food scale and how eating
closer to home can affect global issues of hunger, justice, and
nutrition. This enjoyable and enlightening book includes practical
tips for adopting a locally sourced diet, recipes, and stories
about individuals who epitomize a sustainable lifestyle.”—Taste for
Life magazine
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