Bøger af Daniel J. Philippon

"Explores how Wendell Berry, Carlo Petrini, and Alice Waters changed America's relationship with food over the past fifty years, weaving in stories of the author's experiences farming in Wisconsin, visiting food producers in Italy, and cooking in France in pursuit of his own "ideal meal." Considers what a sustainable food system might look like and the power of the written word to change our world for the better"--

Linking America's nature writing tradition to the development of its environmental organizations, this study looks at five authors of seminal works of nature writing who also founded or revitalized important environmental organizations such as Theodore Roosevelt and the Boone and Crockett Club, Mabel Osgood Wright and the National Audubon Society.