What did she have to offer in exchange for food?
I recently read Mark Bittman’s Animal, Vegetable, Junk and this book is an excellent companion piece to it. They are both writing about food security but where Bittman goes global, Alcalá goes local, in that she narrows the lens to the island upon which she lives, Bainbridge in Puget Sound, in western Washington state. This is deliberate.…
