California cuisine and just food
Can a celebrity chef find common ground with an urban community organizer? Can a maker of organic cheese and a farm worker share an agenda for improving America's food? In the San Francisco Bay area, unexpected alliances signal the widening concerns of diverse alternative food proponents. What...
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Published in | Food, health, and the environment |
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Format | Book |
Language | English |
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Cambridge, Mass
MIT Press
2012
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Summary: | Can a celebrity chef find common ground with an urban community organizer? Can a maker of organic cheese and a farm worker share an agenda for improving America's food? In the San Francisco Bay area, unexpected alliances signal the widening concerns of diverse alternative food proponents. What began as niche preoccupations with parks, the environment, food aesthetics, and taste has become a broader and more integrated effort to achieve food democracy: agricultural sustainability, access for all to good food, fairness for workers and producers, and public health. This book maps that evolution in northern California. The authors show that progress toward food democracy in the Bay area has been significant. Innovators have built on familiar yet quite radical understandings of regional cuisine to generate new, broadly shared expectations about food quality, and activists have targeted the problems that the conventional food system creates. But, they caution despite the Bay Area's favorable climate, progressive politics, and food culture many challenges remain. |
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Bibliography: | http://mitpress-ebooks.mit.edu/product/california-cuisine-just-food 0262517868 (pbk. : alk. paper) 026201811X (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780262018111 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780262517867 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
ISBN: | 026201811X 0262517868 9780262517867 9780262018111 |
DOI: | 10.7551/mitpress/9387.001.0001 |