Product Description

A user-friendly field guide for eating healthy, locally-grown foods regardless of where you live.

Finally--a fresh, funny and positive approach to eating locally! By now you know that everyone is eating locally and sustainable and maybe you want to do it too--to reduce your carbon footprint or just to ensure the freshest, healthiest food for yourself and your family. Whatever the case may be, this easy-to-read, hilarious and informative national guidebook will help you find it, cook it, and enjoy it.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #107556 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 187 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781594850745
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
"Lou Bendrick's Eat Where You Live may have readers scouring the countryside for chicken farmers and eyeing their garden hoses suspiciously [in this new] handy guide for `locavores.'" --Grand Junction Free Press Newspaper

"Lou Bendrick's new book Eat Where You Live, helps people learn how to find and enjoy sustainable food, [and] may have readers scouring the countryside for chicken farmers and eyeing their garden hoses suspiciously." --Aspen Times

About the Author
LOU BENDRICK is a former newspaper reporter who has written for the Aspen Times, Northern Sky News and the High Country News syndicate, "Writers on the Range." Her work now appears in various green publications such as The Utne Reader, Grist, Plenty, Whole Life Times, and Orion Online. Married with two children, Bendrick lives in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Customer Reviews

A helpful beginner's guide to finding local food
"Eat Where You Live" is a light-hearted how-to book on local and sustainable food. Its target audience is people with little to no experience with local food but who are interested in eating more sustainably. With chapters on shopping, gardening, foraging, food preservation, slow food, sharing, and seasonal eating, the diminutive book is chock full of hints in bulleted lists along with a glossary, lots of web links and other resources. The book has suggestions for how to get started without going to such extremes that one is tempted to give up. Overall, Eat Where You Live has lots of helpful ideas, and I think it would be a good resource for the target audience.

At the same time, however, I think the book would have benefited from additional discussion of two topics. First, it is unfortunate that canning was dismissed as too time consuming and involved for "the average person," perhaps discouraging some readers. Admittedly I took a class through the cooperative extension program at a local university before I felt comfortable canning smoked salmon in a pressure cooker, but I've been making (and canning) jam most of my life and canning rhubarb saves room in my freezer for other things. If the author is not comfortable with canning herself, she could have at least mention a few resources for folks who might want to try or include an "Ask the Expert" page on canning.

Second, the author's goal of helping people to "find and enjoy local and sustainable food no matter where you live" would have benefited from additional discussion on produce beyond the standard American fare. In some parts of the country, it is possible to grow just about anything. But in other places, the heat or the cold or the rain or the drought limit what can be grown. So it is helpful to think about strategies for adapting to what can be grown locally, including trying new vegetables. A few recipes for less common vegetables or suggestions about finding such recipes might have been more helpful than a recipe for hot chocolate.

The description does not do this book justice.
This is one of the most practical guides to sustainable, delicious, healthy eating I have found.

(Disclaimer: I know Lou Bendrick, but we rarely agree on anything and I am hyper-critical, so she will be shocked if she sees this review)

This book contains really USEFUL, and some times humorous, information and good recipe ideas, too. Ok, I will try the beet sandwich really soon.

Eat Where You Live
Lou Bendrick has finally given voice to those of us who want to be more proactive when it comes to being "green" and made it easier for big city gals like me to do that. Her fun and witty repartee makes this an easy read. She makes me feel like I'm in her kitchen with her and the family. Set a place for me at the table!