Locavore's Handbook: The Busy Person's Guide To Eating Local On A Budget

by Leda Meredith, Sandor Ellix Katz (Foreword by)

Overview

These days, nearly everyone wants to eat green and local, but tight schedules and even tighter budgets can make it seem like an unattainable goal. The Locavore's Handbook: The Busy Person's Guide to Eating Local on a Budgetis here to help, as author Leda Meredith guides readers to incorporate locally grown foods into their own meals with practical, down-to-earth advice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762755486
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	04/01/2010
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Leda Meredith is New York City’s leading locavore. She is the author of Botany, Ballet and Dinner from Scratch, a memoir with recipes about her year of eating only foods grown within a 250-mile radius of her home in Brooklyn, New York. She has been featured on The Martha Stewart Show and in the New York Times and New York Post.  An instructor at the New York Botanical Garden and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, specializing in edible and medicinal plants, she details her locavore lifestyle on her blog, Leda’s Urban Homestead, at ledameredith.net/wordpress.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments iv

Foreword Sandor Ellix Katz v

Chapter 1 My Year as a Locavore 1

Chapter 2 How Can Eating Great Food Save the World? 15

Chapter 3 Sourcing Local Food 33

Chapter 4 Eating with the Seasons 45

Chapter 5 The Zero Miles Diet: Grow It Yourself 57

Chapter 6 The Cost Factor 81

Chapter 7 The Convenience Factor 95

Chapter 8 Making Friends with Your Kitchen 111

Chapter 9 Simple Food Preservation 131

Chapter 10 Feasting for Free 151

Chapter 11 The Single Locavore 167

Chapter 12 The Space-Challenged Locavore 177

Afterword: The Hundredth Monkey Effect 184

Useful Resources 187

Index 197

About the Author 202

Editorial Reviews

Expanding on 2008's Botany, Ballet and Dinner from Scratch, which chronicled a year of eating nothing that wasn't produced within 250 miles of her Brooklyn home, locavore and urban gardener Meredith presents a practical guide best suited to conscientious foodies in the New York City area. Though much will be familiar to locavores and devotees of Michael Pollan--including the benefits of seasonal eating and the problems of conventional farming methods--Meredith sums up the issues well. Tips on sourcing (particularly from Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) groups), community and urban gardening, and composting provide concrete, succinct steps toward greener food consumption. Meredith also provides thorough tips for getting the most out of farmer's market purchases, including standard meats and produce as well as less familiar foods like fiddlehead ferns and currants; she also provides instructions and steps for preserving a summer bounty and the dos and don'ts of foraging. Though she closes with a list of web references for any zip code, Meredith's more specific tips-and there are many-are largely confined to New York.
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