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Closing the Food Gap: An evening with Mark Winne

Food Security Partners of Middle Tennessee

July 24, 2008

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On Thursday, July 24 the Food Security Partners of Middle Tennessee will host a book talk and signing with Mark Winne, nationally acclaimed speaker and author of Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty. The event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a light reception featuring locally-grown foods. Winne will read from his book, Closing the Food Gap, in which he chronicles the early gurglings of the food movement and the crippling effect Regan-era cuts to federal food assistance programs had on the poor and elderly. He charts the role "supermarket abandonment" and the proliferation of fast-food chains have played in the growing obesity and diabetes crisis among low-income Americans. Food banks, community gardens, farmers' markets, cooperative supermarkets, community supported agriculture programs, and nutrition programs are just some of the many strategies employed by those working to close the food gap and Winne takes readers from New Orleans to Brooklyn to Oregon to provide an insider's look at those efforts. A book signing and reception will follow the reading.

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  Tickets: Free Admission

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  Dates:
  July 24, 2008

  Times:
  Thursday 6:00pm

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  Second Presbyterian Church

  3511 Belmont Blvd. Nashville, TN 37215

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