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Author:

Saul, Nick.

Title:

The Stop : how the fight for good food transformed a community and inspired a movement / Nick Saul and Andrea Curtis.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Melville House Pub.,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

p. cm.

Subject:

Food banks--Toronto.--Toronto.
Community gardens--Toronto.--Toronto.
Food security--Toronto.--Toronto.

Other Authors:

Curtis, Andrea.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

No one wants a handout -- Gardens won?t save the planet, but they'll make it a whole lot nicer place to live -- All good parties end up in the kitchen -- Poverty is ruthless -- Change happens because people fight for it -- Build a big tent -- Eat the math -- The power of food -- The revolution must be funded -- Food is a public good.

Summary:

"In 1998, when community worker Nick Saul became executive director of The Stop, it was like thousands of other food banks, offering canned handouts in a cramped, dreary, makeshift space. Today it is a thriving, internationally respected Community Food Center with gardens, kitchens, a greenhouse, farmers' markets, and a mission to revolutionize our food system. Their message is spreading: Jamie Oliver told his 750,000 Twitter followers that he'd traveled all over the world and never seen anything like The Stop; Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved, told Alternet he was 'blown away' by this model of an NGO--whose mission is to work for healthy food, strong communities and political empowerment. In a voice that's 'never preachy' (Maclean's), Saul argues that we need a new politics of food in which everyone has a dignified, healthy place at the table."--From publisher description.

ISBN:

1612193498
9781612193496

LCCN:

2013026867

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