Leda Meredith

Locavore's Handbook (eBook, ePUB)

The Busy Person's Guide to Eating Local on a Budget

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Leda Meredith offers practical, down-to-earth advice as she guides foodies, home cooks, and anyone else interested in the locavore movement through the process of incorporating locally grown foods into meals. Drawing from her own locavore experience, 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 ideas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780762762675
• Artikelnr.: 41459279

Autorenporträt

Leda Meredith has become New York City's "locavore emiritus." 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, and has been featured on The Martha Stewart Show, in the New York Times and Post, and on locavore blogs and websites. She is an instructor at the New York Botanical Garden and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden specializing in edible and medicinal plants. In addition to teaching ongoing classes, Leda regularly leads foraging tours, and speaks and leads seminars at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, New York Botanical Garden, Genesis Farm, Stone Barns Institute, Woodbridge Garden Club, and The Herb Society of America.

Leda details her locavore lifestyle on her blog, Leda's Urban Homestead: ledameredith.net/wordpress.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Sandor Katz, author of Wild Fermentation and The Revolution
will not be Microwaved: Inside America’s Underground Food Movements
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
13. Afterword
14. Appendix: Useful Resources
15. What's In Season Chart
16. Template for Your Pocket Locavore's Guide
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