Abstract:Stirrings, Lana Dee Povitz's study of food activism in New York City in the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, is an extraordinary achievement. At the core of the book are four rich and vivid case studies of food-focused organizing. It begins with the United Bronx Parents, an anti-poverty organization of largely African American and Puerto Rican parents who agitated to improve school lunches in the South Bronx and ended up GASTRONOMICA 113
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