Together at the Table: Sustainability and Sustenance in the American Agrifood System

by Patricia Allen

Book Overview

Everywhere you look people are more aware of what they eat and where their food comes from. In a cafeteria in Los Angeles, children make their lunchtime food choices at fresh-fruit and salad bars stocked with local foods. In a community garden in New York, low-income residents are producing organically grown fruits and vegetables for their own use and to sell at market. In Madison, Wisconsin, shoppers select their food from a bounty of choices...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271029773
• ISBN13: 9780271029771
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.9"