The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America's Underground Food Movements

Amazing book. Katz touches on several food related issues: genetic modification, loss of family farms, raw foods, water, and eating wild. Each chapter focuses on one issue, giving its history, people working for or against causes, personal examples, and my favorite: RECIPES!
If you have any concerns about the food you put in your body, you must read this book.

This book was food politics at its best. Even though the author is not vegan, i still really respected his goal to educate the reader about all kinds of ways we can and should resist the corpratization of our agricultural systems. He informed me about everything from shopping locally to using traditional food preservation methods, to safetly eating roadkill.

A lot of familiar topics here (I really should stop reading these types of books - they're getting repetitive). Some of the areas that were new to me included the history of the criminalisation of cannabis and some of the stuff about fermented foods, for which Katz is well known. His perspective as a commune-living gay Jew was an interesting one, too.

It had some really interesting information, especially one section about ethical meat and vegetarianism. A lot of it was preaching to the choir. I skimmed some of the chapters. There was a little article on eating bugs that just made me want to vomit, but other than that it was ok. I get really depressed when I think of how far we have to go to take back our food supply from factory farming and mass agriculture.

I recently came upon a bibliography of books on food with a common theme of sustainability -- I think it was in the New York Times Magazine, perhaps. I got a bunch of them out of the library. Some are excellent and others not so much or just weren't for me. One of those is [b:The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved|146252|The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved Inside America's Underground Food Movements|Sandor Ellix Katz|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172178372s/146252.jpg|141139]. The writing didn't draw me in, and perhaps my lifestyle is just too different from Katz's for his book to resonate with me. I did learn some things from the sections I read, such as that Maine is one of a relatively few states to allow the sale of show more unpasteurized apple cider. (Raw milk is also available at my local meat/dairy market.) But, this one's going back to the library unfinished; your results may differ. show less

This book has many interesting facts. It is a socialistic perspective of our food system with the respect of producer/consumer.

Excellent and informative. Its tells of things I never heard of: South Central farm in Los Angeles,...also excellent addtional information sources at the end of each chapter.