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A Modest Menu:: Poverty, Hunger and Food Security, in Poetry and Prose
A Modest Menu looks beyond the measurable aspects of poverty, hunger, global land use and food security, waste and pollution, human trafficking, exclusion, and the myriad other challenges which affect our lives, and will impact our future. A varied selection of essays, poetry and short stories shed light of conditions shared by those most impacted by lack of inclusion, based upon the author’s own travels, observations, research, and work among hundreds of people, groups, and cultures around the world we share. Several scalable projects which were developed and implemented by the author in local communities around the world are also presented within these pages. A Modest Menu does not present an exhaustive summarization of data, nor vast collections of proposed solutions, but, mainly, an accessible collection of writings intended to engage readers, and encourage dialogue about contemporary questions on poverty, hunger, ethics and inclusion, as well as offering some possible responses to needs, and a bit of future-casting for fans of science-fiction as well.
122 pages, Paperback
First published August 14, 2015
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February 17, 2016
A Modest Menu: Poverty, Hunger and Food Security, in Poetry and Prose
A Modest Menu could classify as one of the strangest books I have ever read, if my reading wasn't already stranger than anyone's I've already met. It is more like a collage of short stories, poems, essays and musings (called that for want of a better word) of a mind that is worth discovering, scholarly, meticulous, artistic, poetic, literary and yes, socially entrepreneuring and innovating.
Poverty, hunger and food security are vital issues and along with that of governance something India needs, as do many other countries, constant reappraisals of, and as a result I suggest this book as a must read for policy makers who are in places or positions where they can bring about concrete change and NGOs/NPOS along with Wake Up India: Essays for Our Times by me and Bina Biswas.
I find Michele's prose, her fiction and her poetry riveting though she has such a gentle voice that only connoisseurs can latch on to why she is a special writer.
All I can say is buy the book which is very affordable as a kindle one and read for yourself to see why I make such a hullaballoo about it and have given her five stars.
A Modest Menu could classify as one of the strangest books I have ever read, if my reading wasn't already stranger than anyone's I've already met. It is more like a collage of short stories, poems, essays and musings (called that for want of a better word) of a mind that is worth discovering, scholarly, meticulous, artistic, poetic, literary and yes, socially entrepreneuring and innovating.
Poverty, hunger and food security are vital issues and along with that of governance something India needs, as do many other countries, constant reappraisals of, and as a result I suggest this book as a must read for policy makers who are in places or positions where they can bring about concrete change and NGOs/NPOS along with Wake Up India: Essays for Our Times by me and Bina Biswas.
I find Michele's prose, her fiction and her poetry riveting though she has such a gentle voice that only connoisseurs can latch on to why she is a special writer.
All I can say is buy the book which is very affordable as a kindle one and read for yourself to see why I make such a hullaballoo about it and have given her five stars.
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