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Find fresh, locally grown and sustainably produced food anywhere from stores, to farms, to restaurants, to local bakers and butchers. These helpful city guides are provided to us by the Eat Well Guide in honor of Wenonah’s book tour with Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America.

Click on your state below to see if we have an Eat Well Guide for your city.

California    Colorado     Florida     Georgia     Illinois     Louisiana     Maryland     

Minnesota   New Mexico    New Jersey     New York     North Carolina     

Pennsylvania     Texas     Virginia     Washington, D.C.     Wisconsin

CALIFORNIA

• Los Angeles’ Eat Well Guide

COLORADO

• Boulder’s Eat Well Guide
• Denver’s Eat Well Guide

FLORIDA

• Coral Gables’ Eat Well Guide
• Fort Lauderdale’s Eat Well Guide
• Pensacola’s Eat Well Guide
• Sarasota’s Eat Well Guide
• St. Petersburg’s Eat Well Guide
• West Palm Beach’s Eat Well Guide

GEORGIA

• Atlanta’s Eat Well Guide

ILLINOIS

• Chicago’s Eat Well Guide

LOUISIANA

• New Orleans’ Eat Well Guide

MARYLAND

• Baltimore’s Eat Well Guide
• Bethesda’s Eat Well Guide

MINNESOTA

• Minneapolis’ Eat Well Guide
• St. Paul’s Eat Well Guide

NEW MEXICO

• Albuquerque’s Eat Well Guide
• Santa Fe’s Eat Well Guide
• Taos’ Eat Well Guide

NEW JERSEY

• Red Bank’s Eat Well Guide

NEW YORK

• NYC’s Eat Well Guide
• Woodstock’s Eat Well Guide

NORTH CAROLINA

• Durham’s Eat Well Guide
• Salisbury’s Eat Well Guide

PENNSYLVANIA

• Doylestown’s Eat Well Guide
• Philadelphia’s Eat Well Guide

TEXAS

• Houston’s Eat Well Guide

VIRGINIA

• Charlottesville’s Eat Well Guide

WASHINGTON, D.C.

• Washington, D.C.’s Eat Well Guide

WISCONSIN

• Milwaukee’s Eat Well Guide

“Hauter knows where the bodies are buried beneath the amber waves of grain. . . .By turns heartbreaking, infuriating, and inspiring, Foodopoly is required reading for anyone who wants to understand both the scale of the challenge in reclaiming our food system, and the urgency for doing so.”
— Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved

“In compelling prose, Hauter breaks down why the concentration of corporate power over food matters—and what we can do about it. Foodopoly is a vital book—essential reading for anyone who wants safe food and clean water.”
— Anna Lappé, founder of Food Mythbusters and author of Diet for a Hot Planet

“This may be the most important book on the politics of food ever written in the United States. . . . Hauter puts the blame for our food crisis squarely where it belongs:
on the political and agribusiness leaders who benefit from a corporate-dominated food system. Read this book and take action!”
— Maude Barlow, co-author of Blue Gold and author of Blue Covenant

“A shocking and powerful reminder of the distance between our image of the family farmer and the corporate agribusiness reality. Make sure you read it before dinner.”
— Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth

“A compelling case. . . . Hauter is absolutely right that unless we break the stranglehold of corporate power with significant policy change, the food movement will continue to have only marginal success.”
— Michele Simon, public health lawyer and author of Appetite for Profit

“Food is life. Today, food and life are being hijacked by corporations—and our earth, our farmers, and our health are sacrificed for the sake of corporate profits. Foodopoly [is] a story we must hear in order to create food democracy and food freedom.”
— Dr. Vandana Shiva, author of Stolen Harvest

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Contact

To interview Wenonah Hauter, contact Anna Ghosh at 415-293-9905 or aghosh(at)fwwatch(dot)org.

To book Wenonah for a speaking engagement contact Royelen Lee Boykie at 202-683-2509 or rboykie(at)fwwatch(dot)org.

Press Release

Download the American press release here.

Download the European press release here.

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Additional Resources

Learn more about Wenonah Hauter

Meet Wenonah at a Live Appearance

Follow Wenonah on Twitter

See Wenonah at TedX

Read Wenonah on The Huffington Post

Learn more about Foodopoly

Get information on the publisher, The New Press

Errata

On page three of the book, the overall sales from grocery stores, convenience stores, food service companies and restaurants should be $1.229 trillion, not $1,229 trillion.

On page 182 of the book, “Carroll Foods” should say “Carroll’s Foods.”

In honor of Wenonah’s Foodopoly book tour, The Eat Well Guide is providing a guide for cities where Wenonah will have book signings. Get Wenonah booked in your city and it could get an Eat Well Guide, too!

May 23 at 7:30pm EDT: The Value of Food: Discussion, Q&A with Amy Goodman as host and authors Wenonah Hauter and Fred Kaufman as guests at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine 1047 Amsterdam Avenue New York, New York 10025

May 28 at 6:30 EDT: Presentation, Q&A and Foodopoly book signing at the Athens Community Center, 701 E. State St. Suite 2, Athens, OH (details). Books will be on hand and sold by the Athens Book Center.

June 3 at 5:30pm CEST: Focus session at Planetworkshops’ Global Conference, UNESCO Headquarters, 125 Avenue de Suffren, 75007 Paris, France (details)

June 10 at 7:00pm CT: Book signing and presentation at Magers & Quinn, 3038 Hennepin Ave., South Minneapolis, MN 55408.

June 11 at 7:30pm CST: Book signing and presentation at Subtext Books, 165 Western Ave., N. Saint Paul, MN 55102

June 12 at 7:00pm CT: Presentation and book signing at the Book Cellar, 4736-38 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago, IL 60625

June 13 at 6:30 CST: Book signing, presentation and Q&A at The Book Stall at Chestnut Court, 811 Elm St  Winnetka, IL 60093

June 14 at 6:30 CST: Meet Foodopoly author Wenonah Hauter and book signing at Brickyard Educational Farm fundraiser. Glenview Mansion, 603 Edmonston Dr Rockville, MD 20851

June 24 at 7:00pm EST: Book signing, presentation and Q&A at Literati, 124 E Washington St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 (on the corner of 4th Ave. and Washington Street)

June 25 at 7:00pm EST: Book signing, presentation and Q&A at Schuler Books, 2660 28th Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49512

June 26 at 7:00pm EST: Book signing, presentation and Q&A at Horizon Books, 243 E. Front Street, Traverse City, MI 49684

July 1 at 6:30pm EST: Book signing and presentation at the Mid-Manhattan Library, 455 5th Avenue, New York City

July 2 at 7:00pm: Presentation and book signing at The Golden Notebook, 29 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY

July 6 at 2:00pm EST: Presentation and book signing at the Southwest Regional Library of Durham Public Libraries, 3605 Shannon Road, Durham, NC

July 23 at 7:00pm EDT: Book signing, presentation and Q&A at Fovea Exhibitions, 143 Main Street, Beacon, NY 12508

July 27 at 5:00pm EST: Book signing, presentation and Q&A at Midtown Scholar Bookstore & Cafe, 1302 North Third Street,  Harrisburg PA 17102

July 29 at 7:00pm EST: Book signing, presentation and Q&A at One Page More Books, 2200 N. Westmoreland Street #101 Arlington, VA 22213

August 6 at 7:00pm EST: Book signing, presentation and Q&A at Porters Square Books, 25 White St  Cambridge,  MA 02140

August 7 at 7:00pm CT: Book signing, presentation and Q&A at the Austin, Texas Public Library, Manchaca Branch, 5500 Manchaca Road, Austin, TX

August 13 at 7:30pm PT: Panel discussion at the Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024

August 20 at 6:30pm MT: Book signing, presentation and Q&A at Maria’s Bookshop, 960 Main Avenue, Durango, CO 81201

September 12 at 7:00pm CT: Book signing, presentation and Q&A at Left Bank Books, 399 N. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63108

September 17 at 7:30 MST: Book signing and presentation at Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl Street, Boulder, CO 80302

September 20 at 6pm PT: Presentation at the Symbiosis Gathering, Woodyard Reservoir 14528 26 Mile Rd  Oakdale, CA 95361(details)

September 28 at 3:00pm EST: Local food tasting, book signing, presentation, and Q&A at Blue Ridge Meats of Front Royal, Inc., 2391 Guard Hill Road, Middletown, VA 22645

October 10 at 7:00pm EST: Book signing, presentation and Q&A at Malaprop’s Bookstore Cafe, 55 Haywood St  Asheville, NC 28801

October 23 at 7:00 MT: Book signing, presentation and Q&A at Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Missoula, MT

November 9 at 10am EST: Book signing, presentation and Q&A at TEDx, Montclair University Conference Center, 1 Normal Avenue, University Hall, 7th Floor, Montclair, NJ 07043

Don’t see an event near you? Book her!

To interview Wenonah Hauter, contact Anna Ghosh at 415-293-9905 or aghosh(at)fwwatch(dot)org.

To book Wenonah for a speaking engagement contact Royelen Lee Boykie at 202-683-2509 or rboykie(at)fwwatch(dot)org.

If Wenonah is coming to your town, we have an Eat Well Guide for you. 

PAST EVENTS:

January 10 at 7:00pm EST: Book signing at Harvard Book Store – 1256 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts

January 13 at 1:00pm EST: Book signing at Four Seasons Books – 116 West German Street, Shepherdstown, West Virginia

January 16 at 9:35am EST: Live radio interview on WPFW, Community Watch & Comment with David Whettstone (http://www.wpfwfm.org)

January 16th at 6:30pm EST: Book signing at Busboys & Poets, 14th & V Streets, NW, Washington, DC – sponsored by Teaching for Change.

January 19 at 11:00am EST: Book signing at Winchester Books, 185 N. Loudoun Street Winchester, VA

January 22 at 1:00pm PST: Live radio interview on KALW, Your Call with Rose Aguilar (http://kalw.org/programs/your-call)

January 22 at 5:30pm PST: Book signing (refreshments from 5:30/book signing at 6:00) at Book Passage, 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, California

January 23 at 7:30pm: KPFA Benefit event – Berkeley City College
2050 Center Street, Berkeley, California (get tickets)

January 24 at 2:00pm and 3:30pm PST: Plenary and Panel at EcoFarm, Asilomar Conference Grounds Pacific Grove Berkeley, California

January 24 at 7:30pm PST: Book signing at Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Avenue in Capitola, California

January 26 at 4:00pm PST: Book signing and presentation at Sunrise Center, 645 Tamalpais Drive, Suite A, Corte Madera, California (get details)

January 28 at 7:45am PST: Live TV interview on KING 5 Seattle.

January 28 at 7:30pm PST: Presentation and book signing at Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Avenue in Seattle, Washington (get tickets/details)

January 29 at 7:30pm PST: Book signing at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W. Burnside, Portland, Oregon. Learn more.

February 7 at 4:30pm EST: Book signing at UConn Co-op, 2075 Hillside Rd, Storrs, Connecticut

February 10 at 4:00pm EST: Book signing with Slow Food New York at Book Court, 163 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY

February 11 at 12:00 noon EST: Live radio interview on WYPR, Midday with Dan Rodricks (http://www.wypr.org/stationprogram/midday)

February 12 at 12:00 noon: Presentation and book signing at Johns Hopkins University, Becton Dickinson (Room W1020) Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, Maryland

February 12 at 7:00pm EST: Presentation and book signing at Pratt Central Library, Wheeler Auditorium, 400 Cathedral St., Baltimore, Maryland 

February 13 at 5:30pm EST: Book signing and presentation at New Dominion Bookstore, Historic Dowtown Mall, 404 East Main St., Charlottesville, Virginia

February 19 at 7:00pm CST: Book signing at Open Books: 1040 N. Guillemard Street, Pensacola, Florida

February 20 at 12:00 to 1:30 CST EST: Meet Foodopoly author Wenonah Hauter at Books by the Sea at 571 Harrison Avenue in Panama City, Florida.

February 20 at 2:45pm EST: Blog Talk live radio interview. See here for more details.

February 23 at 2:00pm EST: Book signing and presentation at Inkwood Books, 216 S. Armenia Ave., Tampa, FL. See details here.

February 23 at 7:00pm EST: Book signing and presentation at Wings Bookstore, 4500 4th Street, North St. Petersburg, Florida

February 24 at 3:00pm EST: Presentation and book signing at Fogartyville Community and Media Arts Center, 525 Kumquat Court, downtown Sarasota, Florida

February 25 at 6:30pm EST: Meet & Greet at Susan Lerner’s Snackluck, 6800 Country Place Rd., West Palm Beach, FL (R.S.V.P. to Lynna: (586) 556-8805 or lkaucheck(at)fwwatch(dot)org)

February 26 at 6:30pm EST: Food & Water Watch open house with Wenonah Hauter at Ft. Lauderdale Food & Water Watch office, 1044 NE 15th Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304

February 27 at 3:00pm EST: Presentation at University of Miami’s Abess Center — Ungar Building — 1365 Memorial Drive, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida

When she was 11, Wenonah’s father bought a hardscrabble farm in the Bull Run Mountains of Virginia. There she developed an appreciation for what it really means to grow food — she picked potato bugs, plucked chickens and chopped kindling.

Today, Wenonah is experienced in developing policy positions and legislative strategies, she is also a skilled and accomplished organizer, having lobbied and developed grassroots field strategy and action plans. From 1997 to 2005 she served as Director of Public Citizen’s Energy and Environment Program, which focused on water, food, and energy policy. From 1996 to 1997, she was environmental policy director for Citizen Action, where she worked with the organization’s 30 state-based groups. From 1989 to 1995 she was at the Union of Concerned Scientists where as a senior organizer, she coordinated broad-based, grassroots sustainable energy campaigns in several states. She has an M.S. in Applied Anthropology from the University of Maryland.

Publisher’s Weekly calls her book Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America, “…a meticulously researched tour de force…” In Foodopoly she examines the corporate consolidation and control over our food system and what it means for farmers and consumers.

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Publishers Weekly calls Foodopoly, “…a meticulously researched tour de force…”

Wenonah Hauter grew up on a family farm that her husband runs today as a Community Supported Agriculture Project (CSA), which is part of the growing local food movement. Yet, as one of the nation’s leading healthy-food advocates, Hauter believes that the local food movement is not enough to solve America’s food crisis and the public health debacle it has created. In Foodopoly, she takes aim at the real culprit: the control of food production by a handful of large corporations—backed by political clout—that prevents farmers from raising healthy crops and limits the choices that people can make in the grocery store.

Blending history, reporting, and a deep understanding of American farming and food production, Foodopoly is the shocking and revealing account of the business behind the meat, vegetables, grains and milk that most Americans eat every day, including some of our favorite and most respected organic and health-conscious brands. Hauter also pulls the curtain back from the little-understood but vital realm of agricultural policy, showing how it has been hijacked by lobbyists, driving out independent farmers and food processors in favor of the likes of Cargill, Tyson, Kraft and ConAgra. Foodopoly demonstrates how the impacts ripple far and wide, from economic stagnation in rural communities at home to famines overseas. In the end, Hauter argues that solving this crisis will require a complete structural shift—a change that is about politics, not just personal choice.

REVIEWS OF FOODOPOLY

“…a meticulously researched tour de force…examines the pernicious effects of consolidation in every sector of the food industry.” Publishers Weekly

“A forceful argument about our dysfunctional food system.” Kirkus Reviews

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