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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: A Busy Person's Guide to Eating Local on a Budgetis here to help! With practical, down-to-earth advice, Leda Meredith guides readers through the process of incorporating locally grown foods into their meals. In a concise book designed for mainstream readers, she discusses budgeting; sourcing, growing, and preserving food; shopping efficiently; and supporting local merchants and planet Earth. Everyone, including time-pressed, cash-strapped urbanites with mini-refrigerators and zero storage space, will find inspiration and a host of helpful, surprising ideas. Brooklyn-based Meredith's tips and tricks are particularly helpful for readers in cooler climes.
Author Notes
Leda Meredith is a New York City locavore and 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. 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.
Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
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. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Library Journal Review
The author of Botany, Ballet and Dinner from Scratch, where she challenged herself to eat only food sourced within 250 miles of her Brooklyn home, continues to give some great advice. She includes the benefits of a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) group, how to store food in limited space, and foraging in the city. A New York perspective prevails, but great resources for websites and further reading extends the book's value. (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
| ForewordSandor Katz |
| 1 Introduction |
| 2 How Can Eating Great Food Save the World? |
| 3 Sourcing Local Food |
| 4 The Zero Miles Diet: Grow it Yourself |
| 5 Eating with the Seasons |
| 6 The Cost Factor |
| 7 The Convenience Factor |
| 8 Making Friends with Your Kitchen |
| 9 Food Preservation |
| 10 Feasting for Free |
| 11 The Single Locavore |
| 12 The Space-Challenged Locavore |
