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Word on the Street hits Toronto this Sunday:
Queen’s Park Circle
Sunday, Sept 22
11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
This event is Canada’s largest book & magazine festival, celebrating literary talent with author events, presentations, and workshops across the country.
We’re very excited that one of our authors, Michael Mikulak, will be participating this Sunday to present The Politics of the Pantry: Stories, Food, and Social Change. Join him in the Nothing But The Truth Tent from 1:15 PM to 2:00 PM.
Click here for more event info
These days, questions about where our food comes from have moved beyond 100-mile-dieters into the mainstream. Celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver and Alice Waters, alternative food gurus such as Michael Pollan, and numerous other popular and academic commentators have all talked about the importance of understanding the sources and transformation of food on a human scale. In The Politics of the Pantry, Michael Mikulak interrogates these narratives – what he calls “storied food” – in food culture. As with any story, however, it is important to ask: who is telling it? Who is the audience? What assumptions are being made? Mikulak examines competing narratives of food, pleasure, sustainability, and value that have emerged from the growing sustainable food movement as well as food’s past and present relationship to environmentalism in order to understand the potential and the limits of food politics. He also considers whether or not sustainable food practices can address questions about health, environmental sustainability, and local economic development, while at the same time articulating an ethical globalization.
An innovative blend of academic analysis, poetic celebration, and autobiography, The Politics of the Pantry provides anyone interested in the future of food and the emergence of a green economy with a better understanding of how what we eat is transforming the world.
To learn more about The Politics of the Pantry, or to order online, click here.
For media inquiries, contact MQUP publicist Jacqui Davis.
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