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From James Beard Award winner and New York Times-bestselling author of The Art of Fermentation

An instant classic for a new generation of monkey-wrenching food activists.

Food in America is cheap and abundant, yet the vast majority of it is diminished in terms of flavor and nutrition, anonymous and mysterious after being shipped thousands of miles and passing through inscrutable supply chains, and controlled by multinational corporations. In our system of globalized food commodities, convenience replaces quality and a connection to the source of our food. Most of us know almost nothing about how our food is grown or produced, where it comes from, and what health value it really has. It is food as pure corporate commodity. We all deserve much better than that.

In The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved, author Sandor Ellix Katz (Sandor Katz's Fermentation Journeys, The Art of Fermentation, and Wild Fermentation) profiles grassroots activists who are taking on Big Food, creating meaningful alternatives, and challenging the way many Americans think about food. From community-supported local farmers, community gardeners, and seed saving activists, to underground distribution networks of contraband foods and food resources rescued from the waste stream, this book shows how ordinary people can resist the dominant system, revive community-based food production, and take direct responsibility for their own health and nutrition.

Contents:

Recipe list

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Local and seasonal food versus constant convenience consumerism

2. Seed saving as a political act

3. Holding our ground : land and labor struggles

4. Slow food for cultural survival

5. The raw underground

6. Food and healing (or, Beware the neutraceutical)

7. Plant prohibitions : laws against nature

8. Vegetarian ethics and humane meat

9. Feral foragers : scavenging and recycling food resources

10. Water : source of all life

Epilogue : Bringing food back to Earth

Notes

Index