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What is The edible city : Toronto's food from farm to fork about?

If a city is its people, and its people are what they eat, then shouldnt food play a larger role in our dialogue about how and where we live? The food of a metropolis is essential to its character. Native plants, proximity to farmland, the locations of supermarkets, immigration, food-security concerns, how chefs are trained: how a city nourishes itself might say more than anything else about what kind of city it is. With a cornucopia of essays on comestibles, The Edible City considers how one city eats. It includes dishes on peaches and poverty, on processing plants and public gardens, on rats and bees and bad restaurant service, on schnitzel and school lunches. There are incisive studies of food-safety policy, of feeding the poor, and of waste, and a happy tale about a hardy fig tree. Together they form a saucy picture of how Toronto and, by extension, every city sustains itself, from growing basil on balconies to four-star restaurants. Dig into The Edible City and get the whole story, from field to fork.

Author

Christina Palassio & Alana Wilcox

Publisher

Toronto: Coach House Books

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781770562509

Subjects

Science, Sociology, Agriculture

Rating

3.88 / 5 (26 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14