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Baxter, Joan.
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Baxter, Joan -- Travel -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Food -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Local foods -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Food habits -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Cooking -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Farms, Small -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Women journalists -- Canada -- Biography.
Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Description and travel.
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Baxter, Joan.
Baxter, Joan -- Travel -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Food -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Local foods -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Food habits -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Cooking -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Farms, Small -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Women journalists -- Canada -- Biography.
Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Description and travel.
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Seven grains of paradise : a culinary journey in
Africa
/ Joan Baxter.
by
Baxter, Joan.
Call #:
394.120967 B355s
Subjects
Baxter, Joan
--
Travel
--
Africa
,
Sub-Saharan
.
Food
--
Africa
,
Sub-Saharan
.
Local
foods
--
Africa
,
Sub-Saharan
.
Food habits
--
Africa
,
Sub-Saharan
.
Cooking
--
Africa
,
Sub-Saharan
.
Farms, Small
--
Africa
,
Sub-Saharan
.
Women journalists
--
Canada
--
Biography.
Africa
,
Sub-Saharan
--
Description and travel.
ISBN:
9781988286020 (pbk.)
Description:
285 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Summary:
"Baxter's personal quest to learn about some fascinating and new (to her)
foods
in a handful of countries in sub-Sahara
Africa
and collect the stories these tell about the continent's farms, its markets, and its people. Her guides and tutors are the people who grow, sell, buy, prepare, and serve the
foods
. They help her explore the riddles of a continent better known for hunger than for its food, and why that is. It draws on stories collected over the more than thirty years that she has lived and worked in
Africa
, and builds on these with meticulous research. From the fabled city of Timbuktu on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert, to the diamond fields of Sierra Leone, from the savannah of northern Ghana, to the rainforests of Central
Africa
, readers are invited along on a delightful journey of learning and eating, and some drinking too, of invigorating indigenous beverages, brews and palm wine straight from the trees. The culinary journey takes the reader down garden paths, into forests that double as farms, through the chaos of markets and into modest little roadside eateries. Baxter, a journalist, anthropologist, development researcher and writer, and Senior Fellow with the independent think tank, the Oakland Institute, does not shy away from the realities of hunger and poverty and the real lack of amenities, health facilities, and sanitation on the continent. While the book highlights the complexities and delights of African
foods
and family farms, it also documents the growing risks they face. So even if Seven grains of paradise is intimate and often light in tone, it is also an important and eye-opening work, thoroughly researched. The stories feed the overarching narrative of what makes for healthy food and farms and communities - what they are and how to maintain them on a continent where "slow food" and "
local
food" are still the normal fare for so many. With its focus on food, the book is timely as the world confronts rising food prices, and the future of food - and the farms that grow it - in the face of climate change. Joan Baxter is a Canadian journalist, author, development consultant, researcher and anthropologist. Since 1982, she has lived, raised two children and worked in seven countries in
Africa
- Niger, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Mali and Sierra Leone – and made working trips to many others.Visit the author's website at joanbaxter.ca"--Provided by publisher.
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