Awry Wren
Awry Wren - Nourishing Resistance Stories Of Food Protest And Mutual Aid - Paperback
Awry Wren - Nourishing Resistance Stories Of Food Protest And Mutual Aid - Paperback
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Description: From the cooks who have quietly fed rebels and revolutionaries to the collective kitchens set up after hurricanes and floods food has long played a crucial role in resistance protest and mutual aid. Until very recently food - based work steadfast and not particularly flashy slipped under the radar or was centered on celebrity chefs and well - funded nonprofits. Adding to a growing constellation of conversations that push against this narrative Nourishing Resistance centers the role of everyday people in acts of culinary solidarity. Twenty - three contributors cooks farmers writers organizers academics and dreamers write on queer potlucks Bipoc - centered farms and gardens rebel ancestors disability justice indigenous food sovereignty and the fight against toxic diet culture among many other topics. They recount bowls of biryani at a Delhi protest fricas de conejo on a Puerto Rican farm pay - as - you - want dishes in a collectively - run Hong Kong restaurant and lemon cake cooked in a New Jersey disaster relief kitchen. They chronicle the communal kitchens and food distribution programs that emerged in Buenos Aires and New York City in the wake of Covid - 19, which caused surging food insecurity worldwide. They look to the past revealing how Bella Ciao was composed by striking women rice workers and the future speculating on postcapitalist worlds that include both high - tech collective farms and herbs gathered beside highways. Through essays articles poems and stories Nourishing Resistance argues that food is a central intrinsic part of global struggles for autonomy and collective liberation.
Title: Nourishing Resistance Stories Of Food Protest And Mutual Aid
Author(s): Awry Wren
Publisher: Pm Press
Barcode: 9781629639925
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 3/7/2023
Category: Cookery / Food & Drink Etc
Description: From the cooks who have quietly fed rebels and revolutionaries to the collective kitchens set up after hurricanes and floods food has long played a crucial role in resistance protest and mutual aid. Until very recently food - based work steadfast and not particularly flashy slipped under the radar or was centered on celebrity chefs and well - funded nonprofits. Adding to a growing constellation of conversations that push against this narrative Nourishing Resistance centers the role of everyday people in acts of culinary solidarity. Twenty - three contributors cooks farmers writers organizers academics and dreamers write on queer potlucks Bipoc - centered farms and gardens rebel ancestors disability justice indigenous food sovereignty and the fight against toxic diet culture among many other topics. They recount bowls of biryani at a Delhi protest fricas de conejo on a Puerto Rican farm pay - as - you - want dishes in a collectively - run Hong Kong restaurant and lemon cake cooked in a New Jersey disaster relief kitchen. They chronicle the communal kitchens and food distribution programs that emerged in Buenos Aires and New York City in the wake of Covid - 19, which caused surging food insecurity worldwide. They look to the past revealing how Bella Ciao was composed by striking women rice workers and the future speculating on postcapitalist worlds that include both high - tech collective farms and herbs gathered beside highways. Through essays articles poems and stories Nourishing Resistance argues that food is a central intrinsic part of global struggles for autonomy and collective liberation.
Title: Nourishing Resistance Stories Of Food Protest And Mutual Aid
Author(s): Awry Wren
Publisher: Pm Press
Barcode: 9781629639925
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 3/7/2023
Category: Cookery / Food & Drink Etc
