{"id":9990,"date":"2022-06-28T16:24:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T16:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2022\/06\/28\/our-food-and-farming-book-picks-for-summer-2022\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:49:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:49:06","slug":"our-food-and-farming-book-picks-for-summer-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/our-food-and-farming-book-picks-for-summer-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Our food and farming book picks for summer 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The editors and reporters at <a href=\"https:\/\/civileats.com\/2022\/06\/22\/our-food-and-farming-book-picks-for-summer-2022\/\">Civil Eats<\/a> recommend 24 new food and farming books to help us stay informed and inspired during summer&#8217;s repose. Among them is a book by Furman University&#8217;s Ken Kolb, chair and professor of the sociology department, &#8220;Retail Inequality.&#8221; In it, Kolb challenges long-held beliefs and assumptions embedded in the popular &#8220;food desert&#8221; narrative. In her review of the book, Lisa Held says Kolb advances the idea that &#8220;low-income neighborhoods deserve the same food options as wealthy neighborhoods, regardless of whether that leads to healthier diets.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The editors and reporters at Civil Eats recommend 24 new food and farming books to help us stay informed and inspired during summer&#8217;s repose. Among them is a book by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,22],"tags":[1058,1503,1282,668],"class_list":["post-9990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-sociology","tag-access-to-healthy-food","tag-divestment","tag-neighborhood-grocery-stores","tag-poverty"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}