Local Food

Ditch the Tourist Traps. Eat Like a Tokyo Local. Is your phone leading you to Tokyo's blandest, most overpriced food? Drowning in 5-star reviews for mediocre grub? Tokyo is a food lover's paradise, but navigating its endless options can feel overwhelming. Relying solely on generic apps or guidebooks often leads straight to disappointing tourist traps, missing the incredible, authentic flavors the city truly offers. You didn't come all the way to Tokyo to eat... meh, did you? Meet Sara, your friendly (and slightly opinionated) Tokyo-native guide! Born and raised amidst the city's vibrant ...

When Lucie Amundsen had a rare night out with her husband, she never imagined what he'd tell her over dinner - that his dream was to quit his office job (with benefits!) and start a commercial-scale pasture-raised egg farm. His entire agricultural experience consisted of raising five backyard hens, none of whom had yet laid a single egg. To create this pastured poultry ranch, the couple scrambles to acquire nearly 2,000 chickens - all named Lola.

Explore Japan Like a Local with the Ultimate Travel Guide Ready to experience Japan beyond the standard tourist trail? Whether it’s your first visit or a return trip, this comprehensive guide is your key to unlocking the country’s real magic. From neon-lit cityscapes and ancient temples to hidden villages, world-class cuisine, and unforgettable cultural experiences, Japan Travel Guide gives you everything you need to make your journey personal, effortless, and unforgettable. What You’ll Find Inside: 🚅 Smart Travel Planning — How to choose the best time to visit, find cheap ...

One fateful day in 1996, after discovering that five freight cars' worth of glittering corn have reaped a tiny profit of $18.16, young Forrest Pritchard vows to save his family's farm. What ensues-through hilarious encounters with all manner of livestock and colorful local characters-is a crash course in sustainable agriculture. Pritchard's biggest ally is his renegade father, who initially questions his son's career choice and rejects organic foods for sugary mainstream fare.

Over the past several years, Hardwick, Vermont, a typical hardscrabble farming community of three thousand residents, has jump-started its economy and redefined its self-image through a local, self-sustaining food system unlike anything else in America.

When Peter Mayle and his wife traded England's long, gray winters and damp summers for life in southern France, they entered an enchanting, wonderful, sometimes bewildering world. Now, share their adventures, pleasures, and frustrations: the joys and occasional hazards of wining and dining in...

In 2005, the United States imported 12 billion dollars' worth of seafood, nearly double what we had imported 10 years earlier. During that same period, our seafood exports rose by a third. In American Catch, our foremost fish expert Paul Greenberg looks to New York oysters, gulf shrimp, and Alaskan salmon to reveal how it came to be that 91 percent of the seafood Americans eat is foreign.

Discover Paris Like a Local with the Ultimate Travel Guide Ready to explore Paris beyond the usual tourist spots? Whether it’s your first visit or a return trip, this comprehensive guide is your key to unlocking the city’s true charm. From bustling neighborhoods and iconic landmarks to authentic cuisine, rich culture, and hidden gems, Paris Travel Guide offers everything you need to experience the City of Light in a way that feels personal, effortless, and unforgettable. What You’ll Find Inside: 🏙️ Neighborhood Deep Dives — Detailed insights into Paris’s most vibrant ...

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want an edible experience? Would you like some culinary guidance from a local? Culinary tourism is an important aspect of any travel experience. Food has the ability to tell you a story of a destination, its landscapes, and culture on a single plate. Most food guides tell you how to eat like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Eat Like a Local series, this audiobook will give you a food guide from someone who has lived at your next culinary destination.

The audiobook about the power of sprouts as an ultra-food for health, weight loss, and optimum nutrition by Doug Evans, the co-founder of Organic Avenue and the founder of Juicero The Sprout Book is a transformative plan to empower listeners to embark on a plant-based way of eating that’s...

No experience in farming? No problem! The Profitable Hobby Farm gives you all the tools you need to launch a thriving hobby-farm business. Based on the author's expert guidance and the motivating experiences of other small farmers, it shows you how to blend strategy, marketing, and money management in order to prosper. The Profitable Hobby Farm provides sound, friendly start-up advice on a variety of topics essential to making an initial foray into a local-foods venture. A supplemental PDF is included with this audiobook.

It’s time to think big about small farms. Award-winning author and “green leader” (Grist) Ben Hartman shares practical how-to tips, personal stories, and surprising examples of cutting-edge farmers and innovators around the world to show us how.

Unlock the Wonders of Japan with the Ultimate Travel Companion Are you dreaming of exploring Japan beyond the tourist traps? The Ultimate Japan Travel Guide is your passport to an unforgettable adventure across one of the world’s most fascinating countries—without breaking the bank. Whether it’s your first trip or your fifth, this guide takes you beyond the surface and deep into the heart of Japanese culture, food, and daily life. Discover hidden gems most tourists miss, learn how to eat like a local, and uncover smart budget-friendly tips that will save you time and money while ...

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want an edible experience? Would you like some culinary guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Eat Like a Local book is for you. Eat Like a Local - Tokyo by Katie Ehrlich offers the inside scoop on food in Tokyo. Culinary tourism is an important aspect of any travel experience. Food has the ability to tell you a story of a destination, its landscapes, and culture on a single plate. Most food guides tell you how to eat like a tourist.

There is a major disconnect between what we wear and our knowledge of its impact on land, air, water, labor, and human health. Even those who value access to safe, local, nutritious food have largely overlooked the production of fiber, dyes, and the chemistry that forms the backbone of modern textile production. While humans are 100 percent reliant on their second skin, it’s common to think little about the biological and human cultural context from which our clothing derives.

Skip the tourist traps and discover the London that locals actually love. Tired of crowded attractions and overpriced tourist restaurants? Ready to experience London like someone who actually lives there? This insider guide takes you beyond Big Ben and Buckingham Palace to uncover the authentic heart of one of the world's greatest cities. What makes this guide different? While other travel books send you to the same tired attractions, this guide reveals the London that locals choose every day. You'll discover a cafe built inside a converted Victorian public toilet, a wine bar that never ...

Everybody eats. We may even consider ourselves experts on the topic, or at least Instagram experts. But are we aware that the shrimp in our freezer may be farmed and frozen in Vietnam, the grapes in our fruit bowl shipped from Chile, and the coffee in our coffee maker grown in Nicaragua, roasted in Germany, and distributed in Canada? Whether we know it or not, every time we shop for food, cook, and eat, we connect ourselves to complex supply networks, institutions, and organizations that enable our food choices.

Apples, a common New England crop, have been called the United States' most endangered food. The iconic Texas Longhorn cattle is categorized at critical risk for extinction. Unique date palms, found nowhere else on the planet, grow in California’s Coachella Valley, but the family farms that caretake them are shutting down. Apples, cattle, dates―these are foods that carry significant cultural weight. But they’re disappearing. In Endangered Eating, culinary historian Sarah Lohman travels the country learning about the distinct ingredients at risk of being lost.

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want an edible experience? Would you like some culinary guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Eat Like a Local book is for you. Eat Like a Local–Ljubljana by Catherine Landenberg. Catherina offers the inside scoop on food in Ljubljana. Culinary tourism is an important aspect of any travel experience. Food has the ability to tell you a story of a destination, its landscapes, and culture on a single plate.

Eat Like a Local Alabama offers the inside scoop on food in Alabama. Culinary tourism is an important aspect of any travel experience. Food has the ability to tell you a story of a destination, its landscapes, and culture on a single plate. Most food guides tell you how to eat like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Eat Like a Local series, this book will give you a food guide from someone who has lived at your next culinary destination.