The Food Conspiracy Cookbook: How to Start a Neighborhood Buying Club and Eat Cheaply - Softcover

Wickstrom, Lois

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0912238453 ISBN 13: 9780912238456

Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co, 1974

Synopsis

When a group of people want to buy food cheaply, but don't want to pay rent or salaries or have a store, and are all willing to work, they have a food conspiracy. Buying club and co-op are other names for this kind of organization, but those names also apply to groups with paid managers, store fronts and profits.

The food conspiracy movement includes people who want an alternative to supermarket shopping and people who desire direct control of the kind and quality of the food they eat, as well as its price.

The first food conspiracy started in Berkeley, California, two months after the People's Park struggle. It has subsequently spread to many large cities and among people of all economic backgrounds.

In July, 1969, three Berkeley residents -- Vivian, Jim and Anita, -- met in Vivian's backyard simply to figure out how they could buy food cheaply. Jim knew about the farmers' market and had a VW bus. Vivian knew about organic food. Anita knew how to formulate questions and how to organize. To enlist others to join them, they started writing blurbs in alternative newspapers and putting out pamphlets entitled variously "eat to conspire" and "conspire to eat." They posted a sign near a grocery store in the student neighborhood, ant placed notices in People's Park bulletins and in the Tenant's Union Newsletter and soon there was a group of us.

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About the Author

On the surface, Lois Wickstrom has an ordinary life. She's friends with her mother, on speaking terms with her father, friends with her brother and on speaking terms with her sister, madly in love with her husband, and on speaking terms with her brilliant and accomplished children. She keeps two wonderful dogs, a small organic garden, and a demanding computer. She fixes computers and computer problems for a living. But her inner life is what makes her weird. She had so-called imaginary playmates as a child. She still believes they were real, but her parents couldn't see them. She meditates. And her inability to see the world the way other people see it has earned her the description as imaginative or difficult.

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The best place to buy fresh and possibly organic produce is your local farmers' market or produce terminal. To find the one nearest you, look in the yellow pages under "fruit and vegetables wholesale" or ask an employee at the store where you like the produce. You may want to check out several markets in your search for the best food for the least money. The best time to go is on a weekday at five or six in the morning.

Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co
• Publication date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0912238453
• ISBN 13: 9780912238456
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144