Closing the food gap : resetting the table in the land of plenty

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Label

Closing the food gap : resetting the table in the land of plenty

Title remainder

resetting the table in the land of plenty

Statement of responsibility

Mark Winne

Creator

• trueWinne, Mark, 1950-

Subject

• Economic assistance, Domestic
• trueEconomic assistance, Domestic -- United States
• trueFood supply -- United States
• Hunger
• Hunger -- Prevention
• trueHunger -- United States -- Prevention
• Lebensmittelversorgung
• Armut
• truePoverty -- United States -- Prevention
• Prävention
• USA
• United States
• trueUnited States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
• trueUnited States -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
• Poverty -- Prevention

Language

eng

Summary

"In Closing the Food Gap, food activist and journalist Mark Winne poses questions too often overlooked in our current conversations around food: What about those people who are not financially able to make conscientious choices about where and how to get food? And in a time of rising rates of both diabetes and obesity, what can we do to make healthier foods available for everyone?" "To address these questions, Winne tells the story of how America's food gap has widened since the 1960s, when domestic poverty was "rediscovered," and how communities have responded with a slew of strategies and methods to narrow the gap, including community gardens, food banks, and farmers' markets. The story, however, is not only about hunger in the land of plenty and the organized efforts to reduce it; it is also about doing that work against a backdrop of ever-growing American food affluence and gastronomical expectations."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

363.80973

Index

no index present

LC call number

HC110.P6

LC item number

W53 2008

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

HC 110 W53 2008