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The deepest roots: finding food and community on a Pacific Northwest island
| Title | The deepest roots: finding food and community on a Pacific Northwest island |
| Names | Alcalá, Kathleen. |
| Book Number | DBC19131 |
| Title Status | Active |
| Medium | Digital Books |
| Download Link | Downloadable talking book. |
| Annotation | Food, history, and culture intertwine in this book about farming on Bainbridge Island in the Salish Sea. The author celebrates locally grown food, and the community behind it. 2016. |
| General Notes | "A Ruth Kirk book." |
| Available from BARD courtesy of the Washington Talking Book and Braille Library. |
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| Local Notes | "As friends began "going back to the land" at the same time that a health issue emerged, Kathleen Alcalá set out to re-examine her relationship with food. Remembering her parents, Mexican immigrants who grew up during the Depression, and the memory of planting, growing, and harvesting fresh food with them as a child, she decided to explore the history of the Pacific Northwest island she now calls home. In The Deepest Roots, Alcalá walks, wades, picks, pokes, digs, cooks, and cans, getting to know her neighbors on a much deeper level. Wanting to better understand how we once fed ourselves, and acknowledging that there may be a future in which we could need to do so again, she meets those who experienced the Japanese American internment during World War II, and learns the unique histories of the blended Filipino and Native American community, the fishing practices of the descendants of Croatian immigrants, and the Suquamish elder who shares with her the food legacy of the island itself. Combining memoir, historical records, and a blueprint for sustainability, The Deepest Roots shows us how an island population can mature into responsible food stewards, and reminds us that innovation, adaptation, diversity, and common sense will help us make wise decisions about our future. And along the way, we learn how food is intertwined with our present but offers a path to a better understanding of the future." --Publisher's website. |
| Narrator | Larimore, Beth. |
| Length | 17 hours, 15 minutes |
| Local Subject | Gardening - HO2 |
| Home economics and home arts - HO | |
| Northwest nonfiction - NW2 | |
| Produced at WTBBL - PAW | |
| Adult book - AD | |
| Nonfiction - NF | |
| LC Subject | Food supply - Washington (State) - Bainbridge Island - Anecdotes |
| Local foods - Washington (State) - Bainbridge Island - Anecdotes |
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| Anecdotes |
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| Nonfiction |
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| Audience Notes | A NLS/BPH |
| Call Number | 338.1979776 ANF |
| Language | English |
| Released | 2016 |
| Publication Info | Seattle : University of Washington Press 2016 |
| Original Publication | Recorded from: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2016] 9780295999708 |
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