Eat the City: A Tale of the Fishers, Trappers, Farmers, etc Who Built New York

✍ Scribed by Shulman, Robin

• Book ID: 108229107
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 699 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780307719072

✦ Synopsis

New York is not a city for growing and manufacturing food. It's a money and real estate city, with less naked earth and industry than high-rise glass and concrete. Yet in this intimate, visceral, and beautifully written book, Robin Shulman introduces the people of New York City - both past and present - who do grow vegetables, butcher meat, fish local waters, cut and refine sugar, keep bees for honey, brew beer, and make wine. In the most heavily built urban environment in the country, she shows an organic city full of intrepid and eccentric people who want to make things grow. What's more, Shulman artfully places today's urban food production in the context of hundreds of years of history, and traces how we got to where we are.

In these pages meet Willie Morgan, a Harlem man who first grew his own vegetables in a vacant lot as a front for his gambling racket. And David Selig, a beekeeper in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn who found his bees making a mysteriously...