Anna will be reading from Grub on April 29 at my own Maverick Farms in Western N.C., with a dinner to follow.

Thanks, Meander, for this link.  The photo of those four strong women standing outside the Berkeley farmers' market is truly inspiring.

Here in NYC, I wish we had a resource directing us to sources of locally grown food.  There probably is, in fact, only I do not know what it is.

My husband, who buys and prepares most of our food, comments that it is all very well and good for Californians to be "locavorous" (sorry, "locavore" is not the happiest of neologisms: "a being who subsists on the flesh of crazy women"?), since you guys have one or another growing season all year long.  But in places such as the Northeast, with long, non-productive winters, some falling away from 100% is going to be inevitable, save for the very tough and the very well organized.  One month a year, say August or September, is doable, I guess, to get into the principle of the thing.  Still, we will want our pasta and olive oil from the Mediterranean.

I was very impressed by the mother's book when I read it in the mid-1970s, and I look forward to seeing what her daughter has written.  Frances Moore Lappe, the Goddess of Complex Proteins, used two different arguments for vegetarianism: it is more healthful not to eat meat; and it is better for the nourishment of humanity to use a piece of land to raise grains or (especially) legumes instead of cattle.  I will be interested to see what Anna's new take on the ethical considerations is.