and "Amazing and eloquent....Nabhan makes us understand how finding and eating local foods connects us deeply and sensually. and "-Alice Waters, Chez Panisse Issuing a and "profound and engaging...passionate call to us to re-think our food industry and " (Jim Harrison, author of The Raw and the Cooked ), Gary Paul Nabhan reminds us that eating close to home is not just a matter of convenience-it is an act of deep cultural and environmental significance. Embodying and "a perspective...at once ecological, economic, humanistic, and spiritual and " ( Los Angeles Times ), Nabhan has dedicated his life to raising awareness about food-as an avid gardener, as an ethnobotanist preserving seed diversity, and as an activist devoted to recovering native food traditions in the Southwest. This and "inspired and eloquently detailed account and " (Rick Bayless, Chefs Collaborative) tells of his year-long mission to eat only foods grown, fished, or gathered within two hundred miles of his home. and "A good book for gardeners to read this winter and " ( The New York Times ), Nabhan's work and "weav[es] together the traditions of Thoreau and M. F. K. Fisher [in] a soul food treatise for our time and " (Peter Hoffman, Chefs Collaborative).