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Food Ethics

The issue of how and where we raise our food is of growing interest and concern to me. I have been reading and talking to others over the past several years with the same "against the grain" mentality. Not so strangely much of the movement is within spiritual communities, across denominational lines. That's refreshing in and of itself.

These books are on my "to read" list. I just attended a Food Ethics and Spirituality retreat and gathered the titles there.

More-with-Less Cookbook
by Doris Janzen Longacre
What to Eat by Marion Nestle
Food Politics by Marion Nestle
The Women in God's Kitchen by Cristina Mazzoni
Food and Faith by Wendell Berry, Thomas Moore, Elizabeth Johnson, John Robbins
Coming Home to Eat by Gary Nabhan
Omnivore's Dilema by Michael Pollen

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About Robin Boies

Robin Boies
Robin Boies is the product of a northern Texas cattleman and a city-bred girl from Boulder, Colorado. As a child Boies remembers Sunday's marked by church school and the weekly sermon, followed by an afternoon of Pitch or Twenty-one with red, white, and blue poker chips stacked neatly in front of her. When it came to culture it was sublime opera in the house and Hank Williams in the green Chevy pick-up truck. Boies found herself in Steptoe Valley north of Ely, Nevada, at age seventeen. For the past 28 years Boies has lived 45 miles north of Wells, Nevada, at the Vineyard Unit of Boies Ranches with her husband Steve. There they raised three children, Teema, Nathan, and Samuel. Teema enters Gonzaga University this fall to pursue a graduate degree. Nathan is back in college when not at the ranch after a service engagement in the 101st Airborne, and Samuel graduated from high school last year and has been in New Zealand since September 2005. While tending to the needs of the ranch Boise works to understand and tell the stories of contemporary ranching culture through writing and videography.
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