34 www.eatdrink.ca I am an ardent reader of Sarah Elton, food columnist for CBC Radio's Here & Now, who writes regularly for the Globe and Mail, Maclean's and the Atlantic's Food Channel, and is also an informative blogger and tweeter. Her new book, Locavore: From Farmers' Fields to Rooftop Gardens, How Canadians are Changing the Way We Eat, was officially launched at the Green Barns Market in Toronto at the end of March. The New Oxford American Dictionary selected locavore as its word of the year in 2007. Since the term entered the lexicon, it seems to be on the tip of every culinaryminded person's tongue. The term was coined in San Francisco by Jessica Prentice, issue no. 24 books

Locavore

From Farmers' Fields to Rooftop Gardens, How Canadians are Changing the Way We Eat

by Sarah Elton Review By Bryan Lavery August/september 2010 for the 2005 World Environment Day, to describe consumers who choose locally produced foods over other high-carbon-footprint options. As the emphasis on local food, sustainability and terroir continues to gain momentum across Canada, Elton's book champions the movement away from global food production. Elton writes with a steady focus on Canadian farmers, producers, cheese makers, chefs, restaurateurs, farmers' markets, and the regular "Janes and Joes" who are creating sustainable alternatives to agribusiness and the current global food system. With the premise that food is the founda-

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