{"id":1559,"date":"2013-09-28T10:35:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T14:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2013-09-28T10:35:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T14:35:27","slug":"once-upon-a-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/once-upon-a-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Once upon a world"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I’ve been reviewing books semiregularly for the Tribune<\/a> for a few months now, and it’s nice to be back in a deadline-making, word-count-hitting groove. Thus far I’ve stuck mostly to the food beat, but with this latest I got to branch out into ecology — and I liked it.<\/p>\n

JB Mackinnon is a former Adbusters<\/a> editor and author, with his partner Alisa Smith, of the 2007 bestseller Plenty, one of the first books to popularize the then-fringey idea of local eating. (Canadian title: “The 100-Mile Diet.”) I wrote about that book for the Reader<\/a> when it came out, and have loosely followed their work ever since, and after I chanced upon a great essay by Mackinnon in Orion (“Appetite of Abundance,” sadly not online) I was inspired to seek out his latest, The Once and Future World<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s the review <\/a>— which can be found in prettier PDF format if you are a subscriber to the Trib’s Printer’s Row digital supplement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I’ve been reviewing books semiregularly for the Tribune for a few months now, and it’s nice to be back in a deadline-making, word-count-hitting groove. Thus far I’ve stuck mostly to the food beat, but with this latest I got to branch out into ecology — and I liked it. JB Mackinnon is a former … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[257,268,269],"class_list":["post-1559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-personal","tag-chicago-tribune","tag-jb-mackinnon","tag-the-once-and-future-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1565,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions\/1565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}