The Food Activist Handbook - by Ali Berlow (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><b>A valuable guide packed with practical ways you can support your local food community and create access to healthy food for everyone.</b> <p/><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>One person really can make a difference. From starting neighborhood kitchens to connecting food pantries with local family farms, Ali Berlow offers a variety of simple and practical strategies for improving your community's food quality and security. Learn how your actions can keep money in the local economy, reduce the carbon footprint associated with food transportation, and preserve local landscapes. <i>The Food Activist Handbook</i> gives you the know-how and inspiration to create a better world, one meal at a time.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>FRESH FOOD FOR ALL <p/> "Our food sytem has reached a crisis point, and we need to make it healthy again," writes Ali Berlow. The place to start is in our own communities, where even small steps can make a big difference. <p/> Berlow provides a wealth of tools and solutions to help you energize and organize your local food system and create better access to healthy food for everyone. Full of inspiring stories and practical advice from the vibrant community of food activists, this is your playbook for bringing the food movement home.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>20th Annual Books for a Better Life Award Finalist</b> <p/> "I have seen, with my own eyes, Ali transform the food eco-system in her community through direct action and activism. With her feet planted firmly on the ground, but her vision soaring far ahead, Ali lays out the road to change with boldness, courage, and passion. Bravo, my friend!" <br> -- Walter Robb, co-CEO, Whole Foods Market <p/> "Comprehensive and empowering." <br> -- Bill McKibben, author of <i>Deep Economy</i> <p/> "If Michael Pollan sounded the battle cry, Ali Berlow issues the marching orders. Think of this book as food activism for everyman. It's an elitist movement no more -- everyone deserves clean food." <br> -- Steven Raichlen, author of The Barbecue Bible cookbook series and host of <i>Primal Grill</i> on PBS <p/> "It's been said that it takes a village to raise a child. And once the villagers are roused, Ali Berlow suggests, we can surely do something to eat better, more sustainably, and more humanely. This is a clarion call we would all do well to heed." <br> -- Peter Kaminsky, author of <i>Culinary Intelligence</i> <p/> "Ali Berlow has written an empowering guide to improving the food in our communities. In this wonderful, thought-provoking book, she lays out both big and small actions, inspiring us to get started -- and, with this must-have tool in our hands, to achieve success." <br> -- Corky Pollan, co-author of <i>The Pollan Family Table</i> <p/> "It's not enough just to eat healthy ourselves. We must all become food activists if we are to have a sustainable future. Bravo to Ali for so beautifully showing us the path forward." <br> -- Laurie David, producer of <i>Fed Up</i> and <i>An Inconvenient Truth</i> <p/> "An excellent job of providing -- in digestible chunks -- dozens of steps anyone can take." <br> -- <i>The Boston Globe</i> <p/> "From mapping farmland to starting a school garden, Berlow gives readers actions they can take on an individual level in any community." <br> -- Food Tank<br>
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