Emma Casey
Unprocessed
My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food
by Megan Kimble
- Genres: food, health, memoir, nutrition, cookbooks, sustainability, cooking
- Release date: June 23, 2015
- Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
- Format: paperback, 352 pages
- Author: Megan Kimble
- ISBN: 9780062382467 (0062382462)
- Language: english
About The Book
In the tradition of Michael Pollan’s bestselling In Defense of Food comes this remarkable chronicle, from a founding editor of Edible Baja Arizona, of a young woman’s year-long journey of eating only whole, unprocessed foods — intertwined with a journalistic exploration of what «unprocessed» really means, why it matters, and how to afford it.
In January of 2012, Megan Kimble was a twenty-six-year-old living in a small apartment without even a garden plot to her name. But she cared about where food came from, how it was made, and what it did to her body: so she decided to go an entire year without eating processed foods. Unprocessed is the narrative of Megan’s extraordinary year, in which she milled wheat, extracted salt from the sea, milked a goat, slaughtered a sheep, and more — all while earning an income that fell well below the federal poverty line.
What makes a food processed? As Megan would soon realize, the answer to that question went far beyond cutting out snacks and sodas, and became a fascinating journey through America’s food system, past and present. She learned how wheat became white; how fresh produce was globalized and animals industrialized. But she also discovered that in daily life, as she attempted to balance her project with a normal social life — which included dating — the question of what made a food processed was inextricably tied to gender and economy, politics and money, work and play.
Backed by extensive research and wide-ranging interviews — and including tips on how to ditch processed food and transition to a real-food lifestyle — Unprocessed offers provocative insights not only on the process of food, but also the processes that shape our habits, communities, and day-to-day lives.
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