Name Jessica Prentice | Role Chef | |
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Books Full Moon Feast: Food and, The Local Foods Wheel ‑ S, The Upper Midwest Local Foo, The Local Foods Wheel‑ N, Northern California Local and | ||
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Jessica Prentice is a chef, author, and founding member of Three Stone Hearth, a community-supported kitchen in Berkeley, California. She is known for coining the word locavore, which is a movement in which people seek to eat locally grown foods, often defined as those available within a 100-mile radius.
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- Next economy interview series jessica prentice three stone hearth
- Jessica prentice three stone hearth sane society
- Food activism
- Biography
- Criticism
- References
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Food activism
Prentice has become a prominent activist for local eating, although she takes a pragmatic rather than a doctrinaire view, seeing it as an educational exercise in "consciousness raising" rather than a necessary or sufficient solution to problems of modern food production and consumption.
She co-founded the Three Stone Hearth project in Berkeley, California, which seeks to provide homecooked-style food to subscribers too busy to cook for themselves every day; it has spread to Illinois, New York state, and Minnesota and inspired similar projects in Canada.
She is the author of Full Moon Feast: Food and the Hunger for Connection, which combines essays arguing for local eating with recipes for local seasonal recipes matching the 13 lunar months of the year.
Biography
She starred as Pepper McKenzie on the popular 1982 children's television show Powerhouse, which aired on PBS.
Her interest in food began when she became a vegetarian at the age of 14, although she subsequently started eating meat again. She worked as director of education programs at the Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture in San Francisco.
In 1996 she completed the professional Chef’s Training at the Natural Gourmet Institute in New York City.
Criticism
John Mariani has claimed that the concept of a locavore diet is nothing new, being similar to the ideas of Stewart Brand, Frances Moore Lappé, and others. A study by Christopher Weber found that eating locally as proposed by Prentice made no difference to greenhouse gas emissions—although that may not be the chief aim of locavores. She has also been criticized by vegans for promoting meat eating.