Nabhan - Coming home to eat: the pleasures and politics of local foods

Nabhan explores the seasonal resources of his regional food shed in an attempt to understand the full meaning of eating well. Indulging a joyful taste for wild foodleads him to an enriched sense of community and to better ways of eating that are delicious to the palate and easy on the land. This timely and thoughtful book suggests a different path toward health and responsible living.

Audobon

A practical primer on how to eat locally, think globally (and to enjoy it more) wherever you are. Nabhan explores one of the greatest sources of global despoliation and tells us exactly what we can do about it: eat consciously, and eat foods grown close at hand.

Stanley Crawford, author of A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm

Weaving together the traditions of Thoreau and M. F. K. Fisher, Nabhan challenges the wisdom of buying into the planetary supermarket and offers his personal journey to eat locally as an alternative. A rare combination of the sensual and the intellectual, Coming Home to Eat is a soul food treatise for our time.

Peter Hoffman, chef-owner of Savoy Restaurant in New York City and national chair of Chefs Collaborative

A tale certain to inspire gardeners, cooks, and others eager to replace convenience with flavor.

Country Living Gardener

A profound and engaging book, a passionate call to us to rethink our food industry and to return when possible to our own locale for the sources of what we cook and eat.

Jim Harrison, author of The Beast God Forgot to Invent

Dr. Nabhans adventures with food wove through my day. [A] good book for gardeners to read this winter, as they dream of what to order from that avalanche of catalogs [and] a reasoned primer on the risks of bioengineered crops.

Anne Raver, New York Times

Nabhan is a brilliant scientist (ethnobotany) and remarkably successful social activist. In Coming Home to Eat he weaves ideas about eating right into his interest in the pleasure of caring for ecosystems and communities. His stories are often funny and always invaluable.

William Kittredge, author of The Nature of Generosity

[Nabhan] writes with a passion for those of us who still see and trust the wild in our land. His stories celebrate the sense of place that belongs in all our foods.

David Mas Masumuto, organic farmer and author of Epitaph for a Peach and Harvest Son

[A] global meditation on finding sustenance in your own backyard.

Tucson Weekly

A purist at heart, Nabhan questions the world-at-your-fingertips approach to eating adopted by many Americans. [His] narrative will change the way that readers look at their meals forever.

Natural Home

This book is about communion. It describes a sacred relationship to food and place. The author celebrates the sensual pleasures of food while giving the reader an education about global food politics in a savory blend of personal story, research, and reflection, all served up in delicious prose.

Earthlight

An eloquent and trailblazing writer. Warmhearted, innovative, and respectful of life, Nabhan inspires readers to think twice about corporate domination of the food supply and the old adage You Are What You Eat.

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