Growing a Garden City
How Farmers, First Graders, Counselors, Troubled Teens, Foodies, a Homeless Shelter Chef, Single Mothers, and More Are Transforming Themselves and Their Neighborhoods Through the Intersection of Local Agriculture and Community–and How You Can, Too
By Jeremy N. Smith
2010
New York: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Reviewed by Ellen Messer
Visiting Associate Professor
Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy Tufts University
Lecturer
Boston University Gastronomy Program
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Fighting for the Future of Food. Activists Versus Agribusiness in the Struggle Over Biotechnology
By Rachel Schurman and William A. Munro
2010
Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. Number 35 in their Social Movements, Protest, and Contention series.
Reviewed by Ellen Messer
Visiting Associate Professor
Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy Tufts University
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Feeding the city. From street market to liberal reform in Salvador. Brazil. 1780-1860
By Richard Graham
2010
University of Texas Press
Reviewed By
Esther Katz
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)
Brasilia, Brazil
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Cheap Meat: Flap Food Nations in the Pacific Island
By Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington
2010
University of California Press
Reviewed By
Amanda S. Green
Oregon State University
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