Product Description

Not so long ago most fresh food on North American tables came from home gardens and local farmers markets. Today, the average item of food travels more than a thousand miles before it lands on our tables. ItÂ’s a remarkable technological accomplishment, but has not proven to be healthy for our communities, our land or us.

Through stories and simple "whole foods" recipes, Mary Beth Lind and Cathleen Hockman-Wert explore how the food we put on our tables impacts our local and global neighbors. They show the importance of eating local, seasonal food—and fairly traded food—and invite readers to make choices that offer security and health for our communities, for the land, for body and spirit.

Simply in Season offers a starting point encouraging you to feed both your body and spirit with nutritious food and challenging ideas about the world around you. Woven throughout the recipe pages of each season are writings, tidbits of information to reflect upon while the onions saute, the soup boils, or the bread bakes.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #243309 in Books
• Published on: 2005-06-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Review
"This cookbook reflects a commitment to eat what is in season. Enjoy the flavors and gifts of this book." -- Graham Kerr (The Galloping Gourmet)

"This cookbook reflects a commitment to eat what is in season. Enjoy the flavors and gifts of this book." --Graham Kerr (The Galloping Gourmet)

From the Publisher
Simply in Season is the third cookbook in the World Community Cookbook Series. The two previous cookbooks, More-with-Less and Extending the Table each offer unique recipes and writings to assist readers in raising awareness about world food issues and the interconnectedness of our global community.

From the Author
"You'll find other seasonally-organized cookbooks, but Simply in Season is unique in that it talks about some of the faith-based reasons behind many Christians' choices to live and eat in this way," says Hockman-Wert. "We don't always think in these terms, but we all have values that influence the way we live and eat, the foods we purchase and where we buy them."

Hockman-Wert and Lind both feel that the biggest factors in making food decision are cost (stewardship of money) and convenience (stewardship of time.) Simply in Season, they say, highlights other values that can come into play as we make these daily choices – such as care for God's creation, care for local neighbors who farm, and care for people around the world whose lives are deeply affected by our global agricultural systems.

"These are complex issues, but Simply in Season seeks to introduce readers to them, and to celebrate all that's good about eating local food," says Lind.