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Winne Mark <1950-> |
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Closing the food gap : resetting the table in the land of plenty / / Mark Winne |
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Boston, : Beacon Press, c2008 |
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1 online resource (221 pages) |
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Poverty - United States - Prevention |
Hunger - United States - Prevention |
Economic assistance, Domestic - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Introduction : I've come to-- shop? -- Suburbia, environmentalism, and the early gurglings of the food movement -- Reagan, hunger, and the rise of food banks -- Farmer's markets : bringing food to the people -- Community gardens : growing our own -- Food banks : waste not, want not -- Re-storing America's food deserts -- Growing obese and diabetic : going local and organic -- Community supported agriculture : communities find the way -- Public policy : food for the people -- Income disparities, poverty, and the food gap -- Conclusion : resetting America's table. |
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This powerful call to arms offers a realistic vision for getting locally produced, healthy food onto everyone's table, "[blending] a passion for sustainable living with compassion for the poor" (Dr. Jane Goodall) 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 |
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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. With the popularity of Whole Foods and increasingly common community-supported agriculture (CSA), wherein subscribers pay a farm so they can have fresh produce regularly, the demand for fresh food is rising in one population as fast as rates of obesity and diabetes are rising in another. Over the last three decades, Winne has found a way to connect impoverished communities experiencing these health problems with the benefits of CSAs and farmers' markets; in Closing the Food Gap , he explains how he came to his conclusions. With tragically comic stories from his many years running a model food organization, the Hartford Food System in Connecticut, alongside fascinating profiles of activists and organizations in communities across the country, Winne addresses head-on the struggles to improve food access for all of us, regardless of income level. |
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UNINA9910973680703321 |
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Latin fiction : the Latin novel in context / / edited by Heinz Hofmann |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999 |
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1-134-75575-9 |
0-203-47922-X |
1-280-22626-9 |
9786610226269 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (252 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Latin fiction - History and criticism |
Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern) - History and criticism |
Literature and history - Rome |
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Companion vol. to: Greek fiction : the Greek novel in context / edited by J.R. Morgan and Richard Stoneman. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front Cover; Latin Fiction; Copyright Page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Introduction: Heinz Hofmann; Part 1: Petronius; 1. Petronius and the Satyrica: Gareth Schmeling; 2. The Cena Trimalchionis: John Bodel; 3. The novella in Petronius: Graham Anderson; 4. Rereading the Arbiter: arbitrium and verse in the Satyrica and in 'Petronius redivivus': Catherine Connors; Part 2: Apuleius; 5. Apuleius' Golden Ass: from Miletus to Egypt: Gerald N.Sandy; 6. The Metamorphoses of Apuleius and its Greek Sources: Hugh J.Mason; 7. Apuleius' Metamorphoses: the inserted tales: Nancy Shumate |
8. The Tale of Cupid and Psyche: Gerald N.SandyPart 3: Apollonius King of Tyre; 9. The History of Apollonius King of Tyre: Gareth Schmeling; Part 4: History and Romance, Saints and Martyrs; 10. News from the past: Dictys and Dares on the Trojan War: Stefan Merkle; 11. The Latin Alexander: Richard Stoneman; 12. Hagiographic fiction as entertainment: Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich Translated by Richard Stoneman; Part 5. The Heritage of Latin Fiction; 13. Towards a history of the exegesis of Apuleius: the case of the 'Tale ofCupid and Psyche': the case of the 'Tale of Cupid and Psyche' |
14. Apollonius of Tyre in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Elizabeth Archibald15. The medieval Alexander: Richard Stoneman; 16. The rediscovery of the Latin Novels: Robert H.F.Carver; Index |
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Latin Fiction provides a chronological study of the Roman novel from the Classical period to the Middle Ages, exploring the development of the novel and the continuity of Latin culture. Essays by eminent and international contributors discuss texts including:* Petronius, Satyrica and Cena Trimalchionis* Apuleius, Metamorphose(The Golden Ass) and The Tale of Cupid and Psyche* The History of Apollonius of Tyre* The Trojan tales of Dares Phrygius and Dictys Cretensis* The Latin Alexander* Hagiographic fiction* |
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