Joan Dye Gussow - This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader

P RAISE FOR J OAN G USSOWS

This Organic Life

You will forget that education is the purpose of this book, because it moves so much like a novel. However, you will find yourself stopping and jotting down little bits of information and recipes along the way. Well written, poignant and packed with facts.

The Washington Post

Joan Gussow provides us with delicious inspiration by picking from her garden and cooking seasonally. She is an enlightened nutritionist who understands that our health and the health of the planet begins with stewardship of the earth.

Alice Waters

Will give heart and nourishment to anyone with a garden that seems beyond help.

The Chicago Tribune

[Gussow] makes a compelling argumentboth ecological and moralfor growing our own food.

Utne Reader

Gussow is a reminder of how important passionate people are to all of us, because they share their contagious excitement with the timid.... Most of us want to be part of something of larger significance. Gussows book will light one possible path for many readers to come.

Natural Home magazine

Joan Gussow is one of those rare authorities for whom the personal and political are always one and the same. Eloquent, funny, wise, she is one of our most important voices in the ever growing Real Food Movement.

Barbara Damrosch, author of The Garden Primer

[Gussows] message could be strident but instead is compelling and informative, partly because she maintains a good sense of humor and partly because she walks her talk.

Natural Heath

Joan Dye Gussows account of her pursuit of the good life in genuine practical harmony with nature is a delight. Its rare to encounter a book that is at once a serious contribution to its field and a fine lively entertainment. An engaging personal story, stray thoughts on history, a little science, a few gardening instructions, a handful of low-key recipes and some slyly inserted politicswhat a good, healthy, enjoyable salad this is!

Nach Waxman, Owner, Kitchen Arts & Letters, NYC

Almost any conference having to do with our food systemprocessing, organics, securitywill likely include Joan Dye Gussow. She comes to food with a global perspective, concerned that our agricultural progressgenetically engineered food, synthetic additives, industrialized production, and artificial price supportsis destroying environments as well as economies around the world.

The Valley Table

One of the unsung heroes of the environmental movement.

New Age

Reading This Organic Life could be dangerous. It might make us question the tradeoffs that many of us take for grantedhow we spend our time, our money, where we buy our food and what that implies about our individual and collective futures. It might make us excited about doing things differently, even make us want to try it.

The Times Argus

This Organic Life is a passionate statement from a woman who cares deeply about the environment, the planet and the way we live. The fact that many of us cannot till our own gardens does not mean that Joan Gussows message is not directed to us. As individuals, as parents and grandparents, and as citizens, hers is a call to arms, both in our self-interest and in the interest of future generations.

Stephen Viederman, Needmor Fund

Dr. Gussow has a knack for cutting to the core of complex issues. She regales the reader with wisdom, knowledge, and passion about why we need to care about whatand howwe eat. Through her we come to see gardening as connection, as metaphor, and as practice of ongoing continuity, of the human family at home in the living world.

Nancy Jack Todd

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