The Deepest Roots: Finding Food and Community on a Pacific Northwest Island (Northwest Writers Fund xx) - Hardcover

Alcalá, Kathleen

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9780295999388: The Deepest Roots: Finding Food and Community on a Pacific Northwest Island (Northwest Writers Fund xx)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0295999381 ISBN 13: 9780295999388
Publisher: University of Washington Press, 2016

Synopsis

As friends began “going back to the land” at the same time that a health issue emerged, Kathleen Alcalá set out to reexamine her relationship with food at the most local level. 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 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.

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About the Author

Kathleen Alcalá is the author of a collection of essays, The Desert Remembers My Name: On Family and Writing; three novels, including Treasures in Heaven; and a collection of short stories. She lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington.

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Publisher
University of Washington Press
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0295999381
ISBN 13 
9780295999388
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
360
Rating
  • 3.77 out of 5 stars
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