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A FAIR TRADE FIRST CREATIVE CONSTRUCTION BEYOND WORDS RAINFOREST PROGRESS

No.251 November/December 2008
think deeply, live lightly

33 RAW VITALITY
LAURA VAN MARLE Discover the raw and vegan delights of living foods.
November/December 2008 No. 251 £4.95 US$9.75

34 BAKING REAL BREAD
ANDREW WHITLEY Use your loaf and bake your own!

FEASTING & FASTING

Connecting the Plate and the Planet
• IS NUTrITIoNISm bAD For oUr hEAlTh? • WhAT IF WE All TUrNED vEGAN? • ThE SPIrITUAl SIGNIFICANCE oF rAmADAN

PlUS
• hoW oNE FAmIly CoUlD PoPUlATE ThE EArTh IN 10 GENErATIoNS • AN INTErvIEW WITh bEN okrI

KEYNOTES
10 NATURAL RELIGION
COLIN TUDGE Where science meets spirituality.

36 PEOPLE’S FOOD
MARK DOWIE The wondrous variety of the common spud.

38 WHAT THEN SHOULD WE
EAT?
WILL TUTTLE Make an informed decision about what’s on your plate.

14 THE SILENCE OF THE
GREENS
DAVID NICHOLSON-LORD Why do environmentalists choose to ignore the problem of over-population?

40 FOOD SECURITY
JONATHON PORRITT Eat locally and seasonally: a simple solution to our growing food crisis.

Oranges, Seville, Spain
PHOTOGRAPH: CHRIS CALDICOTT/AXIOM

FEASTING & FASTING
18 FOOD FOR THE SOUL
THOMAS MOORE Food has a profound capacity for meaning and conviviality.

T H E A RT S
42 POETRY
ANNA TRUSSLER & ALAN MUNTON The poems of Ronald Duncan.

REGULARS
2 WELCOME
SATISH KUMAR

21 IN THIS BOWL
MIRIAM DARLINGTON A poem from Miriam Darlington’s book Windfall.

44 AN INTIMATE OPERATION
ANDREW WINGFIELD “For us, you were a living link to another kind of place.”

52 RECIPES
DAPHNE LAMBERT

54 NATURE WRITERS
ROGER DEAKIN

22 JOY OF COOKING
MADHU SURI PRAKASH The kitchen is a place in the home where the juices flow.

46 THE SPACE BETWEEN
SUZY MURPHY Beauty lies in the places where there is seemingly nothing.

56 LETTER FROM AMERICA
LAIRD TOWNSEND

25 GOOD INTENTIONS
ZIAUDDIN SARDAR The cultural and spiritual significance of Ramadan.

48 POINTS OF ENCHANTMENT
SARAH FULFORD An engaging interview with a great writer of our time: Ben Okri.

58 IN THE FIELD
JULES PRETTY

60 LETTERS TO THE EDITORS

27 BREAKING BREAD
GIUSEPPE MASCOLI Baking home-made bread for the first Resurgence slow Sunday.

28 SALAMONGUNDI
JOHN MOAT The joys of a traditional North Devon Christmas Festival.

30 THE AGE OF NUTRITIONISM
MICHAEL POLLAN The bad science behind nutritionism

Kitchen in a village in Rajasthan near Jodhpur, India. PHOTOGRAPH:
CHRIS CALDICOTT/AXIOM

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