Peter Pringle
Forty-nine million peopleâ€”including one in four childrenâ€”go hungry in the U.S. every day, despite our having the means to provide nutritious, affordable food for all. Inspired by the acclaimed documentary ,A Place at the Table,, this companion book offers powerful insights from those at the front lines of solving hunger in America, including:,â€¢	Jeff Bridges, Academy Awardâ€“winning actor, cofounder of the End Hunger Network, and spokesperson for the No Kid Hungry Campaign, on raising awareness about hunger,â€¢	Ken Cook, president of Environmental Working Group, unravels the inequities in the Farm Bill and shows how they affect Americaâ€™s hunger crisis,â€¢	Marion Nestle, nutritionist and acclaimed critic of the food industry, whose latest work tracks the explosion of calories in todayâ€™s â€œEat Moreâ€ environment,â€¢	Bill Shore, Joel Berg, and Robert Egger, widely-published anti-hunger activists, suggest bold and diverse strategies for solving the crisis,â€¢	Janet Poppendieck, sociologist, bestselling author, and well-known historian of poverty and hunger in America, argues the case for school lunch reform,â€¢	Jennifer Harris, of Yale Universityâ€™s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, uncovers the new hidden persuaders of web food advertisers ,â€¢	David Beckmann, head of Bread for the World, and Sarah Newman, researcher on A Place at the Table, explore the intersection of faith and feeding the hungry,â€¢	Mariana Chilton, Philadelphia pediatrician and anti-hunger activist, tells the moving story of her extraordinary lobby group, Witnesses to Hunger,â€¢	Tom Colicchio, chef and executive producer of televisionâ€™s Top Chef, presents his down-to-earth case to Washington for increases in child nutrition programs ,â€¢	Andy Fisher, veteran activist in community food projects, argues persuasively why we have to move beyond the charity-based emergency feeding program,â€¢	Kelly Meyer, cofounder of Teaching Gardens, illuminates the path to educating, and providing healthy food for, all children,â€¢	Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush, the filmâ€™s directors/producers, tell their personal stories of how and why they came to make the documentary,Hunger and food insecurity pose a deep threat to our nation. A Place at the Table shows they can be solved once and for all, if the American public decidesâ€”as they have in the pastâ€”that making healthy food available, and affordable, is in the best interest of us all.
Nonfiction,Food and Drink,Food,Social Movements,Social Justice,Writing,Essays
A Place at the Table: The Crisis of 49 Million Hungry Americans and How to Solve It