Unprocessed - My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food (Paperback)

In the tradition of Michael Pollan's bestselling In Defense of Food comes this remarkable chronicle, from a founding editor of Edible Baja Arizona, of a young woman's year-long journey of eating only whole, unprocessed foods-intertwined with a journalistic exploration of what "unprocessed" really means, why it matters, and how to afford it. In January of 2012, Megan Kimble was a twenty-six-year-old living in a small apartment without even a garden plot to her name. But she cared about where food came from, how it was made, and what it did to her body: so she decided to go an entire year without eating processed foods. Unprocessed is the narrative of Megan's extraordinary year, in which she milled wheat, extracted salt from the sea, milked a goat, slaughtered a sheep, and more-all while earning an income that fell well below the federal poverty line. What makes a food processed? As Megan would soon realize, the answer to that question went far beyond cutting out snacks and sodas, and became a fascinating journey through America's food system, past and present. She learned how wheat became white; how fresh produce was globalized and animals industrialized. But she also discovered that in daily life, as she attempted to balance her project with a normal social life-which included dating-the question of what made a food processed was inextricably tied to gender and economy, politics and money, work and play. Backed by extensive research and wide-ranging interviews-and including tips on how to ditch processed food and transition to a real-food lifestyle-Unprocessed offers provocative insights not only on the process of food, but also the processes that shape our habits, communities, and day-to-day lives.

General

Imprint:	William Morrow Paperbacks
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2015
Authors:	Megan Kimble
Dimensions:	203 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	344
ISBN-13:	978-0-06-238246-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Health, Home & Family > Cookery / food & drink etc > Health & wholefood cookery > General Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Fitness & diet > Diets & dieting Books > Food & Drink > Health & wholefood cookery > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	0-06-238246-2
Barcode:	9780062382467

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