Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty
Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Bounty Books
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Product Description
From the War on Poverty to new farmers’ markets, a food expert tackles America’s perilous nutritional split
With a new Foreword
Closing the Food Gap exposes America’s perilous nutritional split: from patrons of food pantries, bodegas, and convenience stores to the more comfortable classes who increasingly seek out organic and local products. Calling largely on his own experience in food activism, and mixing in surprisingly witty observations, Mark Winne ultimately envisions realistic partnerships in which family farms and impoverished communities come together to get healthy, locally produced food onto everyone’s table.
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I was assigned Winne’s book for a class that I am taking on urban food systems and I may possibly not place it down. It is an informative, engaging and empowering book on how to combat the inequality that exists in our food system today. In Closing the Food Gap, Winne takes the massive come forth of hunger in America and manages to connect his readers with it on a very private level. He walks his readers through the communities that are affected daily by poverty and hunger, as well as the ways in which they are fighting for their aptly to fresh, healthy affordable food. He also challenges his readers to go beyond America’s current method of administration hunger and actively confront its root causes. Through the telling of his own tale as a food advocate, Winne engages his reader in a discussion of the problems with America’s current approach to hunger, as well as clear solutions for making a more just and equitable food system.
Rating: 5 / 5
I just happened to see this book at my local farmer’s market and I am very thankful to Mark Winne for sharing his experiences and thoughts. This book is well organized and simple to read. Mark’s experience provides a first-hand perspective and credibility, even as supporting in rank has been painstakingly researched. I consider this book to be a wake up call for me and I hope it will be the same for many others.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is probably the best descriptor of how our food systems end up leaving out those in poverty. Extremely well written. If you liked Michael Pollan’s books, you will like this.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book gives an brilliant picture of the food and hunger crisis in this people. It’s simple to forget with one third of our populace being obese that there are also many who go hungry. It’s fascinating that similar political and environmental forces lead to both problems. Winne is very liberal, which may turn off some more moderate readers, but his science is sound and he has the facts down aptly.
Rating: 4 / 5
With all respect to Mr. Winne’s argument, his writing is dull and droll. I did not delight in his book at all, and dreaded having to read it for my college English class. Perhaps I was predisposed to dislike it because it was required reading, but regardless, it may possibly not keep my attention, and I constantly found myself zoning off and thought about something else instead of educating myself regarding the solutions to our nation’s food crises. The theme is a God-send, don’t get me incorrect, but Winne should have used a ghost novelist.
Rating: 2 / 5