zzzFood Town U.S.A.: Seven Unlikely Cities that are Changing the Way We Eat

Acres U.S.A. is carrying this book to help show farmers how urban markets are changing, and why opportunity may not just be at the grain mill. 

Look at any list of America’s top foodie cities and you probably won’t find Boise, Idaho or Sitka, Alaska. Yet they are the new face of the food movement. Healthy, sustainable fare is changing communities across this country, revitalizing towns that have been ravaged by disappearing industries and decades of inequity. What sparked this revolution? To find out, Mark Winne traveled to seven cities not usually considered revolutionary. He broke bread with brew masters and city council members, farmers and philanthropists, toured start-up incubators and homeless shelters.

The cities of Food Town, USA remind us that innovation is ripening all across the country, especially in the most unlikely places.

#7579 • Copyright 2019 • Hardcover • 194 pages 

Advanced Praise: 

“Mark Winne’s Food Town, USA is a tasty, heartwarming journey through towns we’d never thought much of but suddenly want to move to. It happily reminds us that when we devote ourselves to people and places we care about, wonderful and unexpected things seem to happen.”
(Mark Bittman, author of the How to Cook Everything series, Food Matters, and VB6: Eat Vegan Before)

“Food Town, USA may prove to be the most hopeful and important book to take the food movement out of the predictable culture wars between big city and forgotten countryside, between blue and red, and between glamorous and unfashionable places. Whether it’s craft beer or food sovereignty, Winne gives voice to those who are reinventing the food movement in their own language.”
(Richard McCarthy, Executive Committee, Slow Food International)