de Francesco Adrienne - Share: Delicious Dishes from FoodShare and Friends by Adrienne De Francesco, Marion Kane

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This beautiful cookbook offers not only insightful, delicious, seasonal recipes, but also a window into a wonderful organization, FoodShare. Each recipe shares not just amounts, ingredients, and techniques but also the joy and love of cooking that is the soul of the kitchenwhether in a home or in a restaurant!

Aaron Joseph Bear Robe, chef/owner, Keriwa Cafe

A book you can not only read, but actually cook withgiving you more reasons to garden, shop locally and sustainably, and share a home-cooked meal with family and friends.

Wayne Roberts, writer and food policy analyst

A much-needed and practical resource for healing our broken food system. FoodShares ability to involve its friends, young and old, in this growing Good Food Revolution is critical to the success of efforts to make nutritious and affordable food accessible at every level.

Will Allen, author of The Good Food Revolution

Delicious Dishes from
FoodShare and Friends

ADRIENNE DE FRANCESCO with MARION KANE

Foreword by FRANCES MOORE LAPP

Between the Lines

Toronto, Canada

share: Delicious Dishes from FoodShare and Friends

2012 FoodShare Toronto

First published in 2012 by

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

De Francesco, Adrienne

Share : delicious dishes from FoodShare and friends

/ Adrienne De Francesco with Marion Kane.

Includes index.

Electronic monograph.

Issued also in print format.

ISBN 978-1-926662-88-6 (EPUB).

ISBN 978-1-926662-89-3 (PDF)

1. Cooking. 2. FoodShare Toronto (Organization).

3. Cookbooks. I. Kane, Marion II. Title.

TX714.D398 2012 641.5 C2012-903714-1

Photography by Laura Berman, GreenFuse Photos

Food Testing and Styling by Lesleigh Landry & Katie Compton

Printed in Canada

eBook development by WildElement.ca

FoodShare is a proud United Way Toronto member agency.

Between the Lines gratefully acknowledges assistance for its publishing activities from the Canada Council for
the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishers Tax Credit program and through the Ontario Book Initiative, and the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund.

For Stuart Coles and Jennifer Welsh, who started the movement for FoodShare Toronto and the Toronto Food Policy Council with their vision of a new food system in which everyone has good, healthy food and farming is sustainable. And for cooks everywhere working to build that new, just food system, one delicious home-cooked meal at a time.

Contents

Foreword: FoodShare Toronto,
Changing the World

Debbie Field, Executive Director,
FoodShare Toronto

Foreword: FoodShare Toronto,
Changing the World

I was delighted to hear that FoodShare Toronto was collecting its best recipes and capturing some of the stories of its inspiring work.

When I wrote Diet for a Small Planet in 1971, I challenged the idea that hunger was caused by a shortage of food. In reality, then and now, hunger is caused by a shortage of democracyby people being denied a voice in meeting their essential needs. Of course I could not have imagined that 41 years later, groups like FoodShare would achieve such success in helping to birth a new and respectful food system that gives people that voice. They are a beautiful exemplar of what I talk about in my new book, EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want .

In 1994, I spoke at the FoodShare annual general meeting while I was on a book tour promoting the need for citizen engagement. Then, on the recommendation of executive director Debbie Field, my daughter Anna and I went to Brazil and saw the strikingly positive changes that can happen when officials make food a human right.

Most recently, when I was in Toronto to speak about EcoMind , I had the great pleasure of visiting FoodShare on one of its famous Tuesday fresh produce packing days and seeing first hand the excitement of people of all incomes, backgrounds, and ages, standing shoulder to shoulder to build new relations of mutuality. FoodShare was full of hope that day, and full of the smells of home cooking as so many of usvolunteers, guests, staff, youth interns, Grade 7 and 8 studentssat down to an amazing meal of minestrone soup, Kenyan kale, rice, jerk chicken or tofu, coleslaw, FoodShare salad, and apple cake.

On a tour of the food hub that FoodShare has built in the middle of a decommissioned high school, I was struck by the power of Debbies idea that the school garden is the epicentre of community empowerment, and that by teaching students to cook, compost, and keep bees and chickensby bringing Food Literacy to schoolswe can create the new world we want in the belly of the old, decaying system.

It is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism, and that is why groups like FoodShare are at the leading edge of the shift from a scarcity mind to an eco-mind, changing the world.

Please keep this book close at hand, celebrate the food movement heroes it profiles, and of course try the recipes, from the magnificently simple strawberry juice, rooted in the history of First Nations peoples, to roasted celery root mash with sauted mushrooms, kale, and pepper pure, a gourmet vegan dish that will thrill your dinner guests.