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Closing the Food Gap tells the story of how we get our food: from poor people at food pantries or bodegas and convenience stores to the more comfortable classes, who increasingly seek out organic and local products. Winne's exploration starts in the 1960s, when domestic poverty was 'rediscovered', and shows how communities since that time have responded to malnutrition with a slew of strategies and methods.

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articulate and comprehensive...a calm, well-reasoned and soft-spoken call to arms Reading this book should make everyone want to advocate for food systems that will feed the hungry, support local farmers, and promote community democracy--all at the same time. --Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University, and author of Food Politics and What to Eat Winne tackles the world of food deserts, hunger relief, and the disparities of the 'haves' and 'have-nots' from both a personal and professional viewpoint that at once educates on and illuminates these very complicated issues, making them and their interrelationships not only understandable but also compelling for all those who care about social justice in our country. --Chef Ann Cooper, author of Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children Winne has done it all--food coops, emergency feeding, farmers' markets, community gardening, Community Supported Agriculture, public policy. He tells us why and how, weaving into his own experiences stories from other cities across the country to create an essential picture of how people like him are struggling to reset the country's table for everyone. --Joan Dye Gussow, author of This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader Closing the Food Gap reveals the chasm between the two food systems of America--the one for the poor and the one for everyone else. Mark Winne offers compelling solutions for making local, organic, and highly nutritious food available to everyone. It's heartening to find a book that successfully blends a passion for sustainable living with compassion for the poor. --Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, founder of thhe Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace By combining stories of his deep personal experience as an activist with keen insight into strategies for addressing food injustice, Winne fills a gap in the growing literature on good food, why it matters, and how to ensure everyone everywhere has access to it. Plus, th

articulate and comprehensive...a calm, well-reasoned and soft-spoken call to arms Reading this book should make everyone want to advocate for food systems that will feed the hungry, support local farmers, and promote community democracy--all at the same time. --Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University, and author of Food Politics and What to Eat Winne tackles the world of food deserts, hunger relief, and the disparities of the 'haves' and 'have-nots' from both a personal and professional viewpoint that at once educates on and illuminates these very complicated issues, making them and their interrelationships not only understandable but also compelling for all those who care about social justice in our country. --Chef Ann Cooper, author of Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children Winne has done it all--food coops, emergency feeding, farmers' markets, community gardening, Community Supported Agriculture, public policy. He tells us why and how, weaving into his own experiences stories from other cities across the country to create an essential picture of how people like him are struggling to reset the country's table for everyone. --Joan Dye Gussow, author of This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader Closing the Food Gap reveals the chasm between the two food systems of America--the one for the poor and the one for everyone else. Mark Winne offers compelling solutions for making local, organic, and highly nutritious food available to everyone. It's heartening to find a book that successfully blends a passion for sustainable living with compassion for the poor. --Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, founder of thhe Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace By combining stories of his deep personal experience as an activist with keen insight into strategies for addressing food injustice, Winne fills a gap in the growing literature on good food, why it matters, and how to ensure everyone everywhere has access to it. Plus, th

In the midst of a bountiful land, many Americans are not sure where their next meal will come from, and others are just plain hungry, writes activist Winne, who wants to supply provisions for people who can't get the groceries they need and deserve.There are at least 15 different federal food programs to feed the undernourished, notes the author, yet they are so inadequate that many people suffer from food insecurity. Clinging to frayed safety nets, they send their kids to friends and neighbors at mealtime. They employ dumpster-diving as a potluck mode of shopping. But how many grocery bags will they be able to carry on the bus after the last nearby inner-city market leaves? Endemic obesity, heart disease, hypertension and diabetes vex the poor. It's not only Big Cola and the junk-food forces that are to blame; also at fault are supermarket economics, wavering support of the public sector and, it seems, those of us who don't set the table with local produce and organic fare. Winne tells of fighting the good food fight for 25 years in Hartford, Conn., and environs. The earnest activist, now living in New Mexico, explains what he and his friends have done in various soup kitchens, food pantries, farmers' markets, co-ops, food banks and - revivified from World War II - victory gardens. He salts his personal history with pertinent reportage. But he is not a puritanical moralizer passing judgment on anyone who chooses to pay $30 a month for cable TV rather than shop regularly at Whole Foods, where $30 buys two pounds of grass-fed beef. What's needed, avers Winne, is a unified federal program, less dependence on food banks, more slow food and more investment in healthy viands. It boils down to projects, partners and policy. Meanwhile, eat your parsnips. Worthy fare, served with much apple piety. (Kirkus Reviews)

articulate and comprehensive...a calm, well-reasoned and soft-spoken call to arms

Reading this book should make everyone want to advocate for food systems that will feed the hungry, support local farmers, and promote community democracy--all at the same time. --Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University, and author of Food Politics and What to Eat@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; Winne tackles the world of food deserts, hunger relief, and the disparities of the 'haves' and 'have-nots' from both a personal and professional viewpoint that at once educates on and illuminates these very complicated issues, making them and their interrelationships not only understandable but also compelling for all those who care about social justice in our country. --Chef Ann Cooper, author of @lt;i@gt;Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; Winne has done it all--food coops, emergency feeding, farmers' markets, community gardening, Community Supported Agriculture, public policy. He tells

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