Food Heroes – serie

Chef Alice Waters has always been friends with food.The search for good food led Alice Waters to France, and then back to Berkeley, California, where she started Chez Panisse restaurant and the Edible Schoolyard. For Alice, a delicious meal does not start in the kitchen, but in the fields with good soil and caring farmers.Jacqueline Briggs Martin, author of the Caldecott winner, Snowflake Bentley, teams up with Hayelin Choi, making her illustration debut, to show how one child's search for delicious led to a dream for all children to share the joy of tasty food—the same joy we get from a beautiful song, or a starry sky. Alice Waters and the Trip to Delicious is the second of the author's Food Heroes series on people who changed what and how we eat, after the award-winning Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table.Alice Waters founded Chez Panisse restaurant in 1971 and the Edible Schoolyard in 1995. She won the James Beard Award for Best Chef in 1992 and Chez Panisse was named the Best Restaurant in America by Gourmet in 2001. Time magazine named her among "100 Most Influential People in the World" in 2014.

Will Allen is no ordinary farmer. A former basketball star, he's as tall as his truck, and he can hold a cabbage--or a basketball--in one hand. But what is most special about Farmer Will is that he can see what others can't see. When he looked at an abandoned city lot in Milwaukee he saw a huge table, big enough to feed the whole world.No space, no problem. Poor soil, there's a solution. Need help, found it. Farmer Will is a genius in solving problems. In 2008, the MacArthur Foundation named him one for his innovative urban farming methods, including aquaponics and hydroponics.Jacqueline Briggs Martin, author of the Caldecott Medal winner, Snowflake Bentley, and Alice Waters and the Trip to Delicious , along with debut artist Eric-Shabazz Larkin's striking artwork, tells the inspiring story of the African American innovator, educator, and community builder.Farmer Will Allen is the first book of Martin's Food Heroes series, followed by Alice Waters and the Trip to Delicious. In 2015, it was selected by Points of Light Foundation to set a new Guinness World Record for the most children reading the same book across the globe to promote literacy. Nearly 300,000 participated.

Picture book biography about the pioneering woman farmer, who has introduced culinary herbs, greens, flowers, and wild foraged goods to Boston area chefs and eaters. The fifth of author Jacqueline Briggs Martin's award winning "Food Heroes" series. Farmer Eva Sommaripa founded Eva's Garden in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, a place "so close to the ocean, she can smell the sea, so close to woods she can talk to trees." More than 50 years later she has grown a big green garden life of friends and neighbors, creatures that crawl, fly and slither, eve microbes that create rich soil in the brown underground. Meet farmer Eva, and share the magic, beauty, and science of life on the farm and caring for the land. Farmer Eva's Green Garden Life is one of the first book that focuses on a woman farmer. It is also a story connecting farming with nature, ecology, and science. With an Afterword from Eva, Back Matter on • Women farmers• Eva's Recipe for Growing Pea Shoots• Information on critters that maintain soil health• Author's NoteResourcesJacqueline Briggs Martin’s many books include Snowflake Bentley, winner of the Caldecott medal. Farmer Eva is part of her "Food Heroes" series, which include Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table, Alice Waters and the Trip to Delicious—and co-written with June Jo Lee—Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix and Sandor Katz and the Tiny Wild, and her newest book, Kimchi Taco Time. Jacqueline grew up on a dairy farm in Maine and now lives in Mount Vernon, Iowa. jacquelinebriggsmartin.com.Christy Hale has illustrated numerous children's books, including Our School Garden!, published by READERS to EATERS. She is also the author and illustrator of many books, most recently Copycat: Nature-Inspired Design Around the World, Water Land: Land and Water Forms Around the World and Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building. She lives in Palo Alto, California. christyhale.com.Eva Sommaripa is a pioneering farmer who started Eva’s Garden  more than 50 years ago in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts. She has introduced culinary herbs, greens, flowers, and wild foraged goods to Boston area chefs and eaters. She has introduced culinary herbs, greens, flowers, and wild foraged goods to Boston area chefs and eaters. Eva experiments with wild edibles and parts of plants that are not well known, and is exploring the microbes that make growing and eating healthier for humans and our planet. In 2014, she became the first farmer to receive Wellesley College's prestigious Alumnae Achievement Award. Eva’s Garden is the subject of the book, Wild Flavors, written by chef Didi Emmons...“Packed with deliciousness, this fifth volume in Readers to Eater's Food Heroes series will delight seekers of all ages and inspire future female farmers... An all-around inspiring purchase for public-library collections that will spark readers' involvement.” —Booklist`