Bücher von Tom Hunt

Nicht erst seit Fridays for Future nimmt das Bewusstsein um die Folgen unserer ganz persönlichen Entscheidungen größeren Raum ein als je zuvor. Obwohl die Bewältigung der Klimakrise einen umfassenden Systemwandel voraussetzt, können wir schon durch die Nahrungsmittel, die wir zu uns nehmen, und ihre Zubereitung Veränderungen bewirken. In Deutschlands Haushalten werden jedes Jahr 4,4 Millionen Tonnen Lebensmittel weggeschmissen. Dieses Buch ist ein Manifest gegen die gegenwärtige Lebensmittel-verschwendung. Tom Hunt deckt unter Bezugnahme auf die neuesten Forschungsergebnisse und Richtlinien im ersten Teil detailliert die Problematik auf und bietet gleichzeitig umsetzbare Lösungen an. In seinem »Root-to-Fruit-Konzept« geht es darum, mit Genuss und Kreativität vegetarisch, saisonal und lokal zu kochen, nachhaltigere Landwirtschaft zu fördern, die Artenvielfalt zu unterstützen und keinen Abfall zu produzieren.Der zweite Teil enthält über achtzig Rezepte, die zeigen, wie einfach es ist, besser zu essen und damit nicht nur die Gesundheit, sondern auch das Wohlergehen unseres Planeten zu unterstützen.

Nancy was born and raised in Harbor Cove, a small fish-buying station. Isolation and hardships were part of her everyday existence. From the time she is old enough to stand on wheel watch, she works with her dad on his old wooden tugboat. They tow log rafts for logging companies and hire out as beach loggers to recover logs from rafts that break apart during the storms that are normal occurrence in the Alaskan Panhandle. As soon as she is old enough to be on her own, she leaves home and never looks back. She is determined to live with all the conveniences she grew up without. That is exactly what she does: a husband, two kids, and a house in the suburbs in Lynnwood, Washington. Then the phone rings. Her dad needs help after having a stroke. Still resistant, she is convinced by her husband and daughter to return. She takes her fourteen-year-old son because he is having a hard time socially at school. Her children know nothing of how she grew up. She has told them very little because she is afraid they will become fascinated with the very things she detested. When she arrives, she finds hardly anything has changed. Folks are still living the way they were when she left, making up the rules as they go along. Then somehow she begins to question her memory and begins to realize the importance of allowing people to live the way they choose. Reluctantly she agrees to help her dad recover some logs from a broken raft, putting lives in danger, including her own son's. Neil arrives in the The Cove two months before his job begins as a school teacher, a job nobody else wanted. He's not even sure there will be enough children to have school open. When someone asks why he can't come up with answer. Ralph Bodeen arrives one morning in a small plastic punt after rowing all night. His small troller has burned to the waterline. He announces that he is now a man without resources and is looking for work. He has lost everything including all of his toilet paper. The Cove collects people and it's up to them to somehow make things work -- or not.

Bad Water and Other Stories of the Alaskan Panhandle is a book of short stories set in southeast Alaska on an archipelago about the size of Florida. There are not many people and most of them live in a few small scattered towns. Some live in the more remote areas of the thousands of miles of coastline and hundreds of backwater bays and coves, making a living at whatever is available. Alaska is a place where geography and weather dictate human behavior, and that could mean eating the same dried beans, rice, deer meat and fish for a good part of the year. With no freeways and little law enforcement (a 911call means contacting the Coast Guard), people must learn to be self-sufficient, especially in times of emergencies. Sometimes people make their own solutions to solve problems. If a solution doesn't work and you're still alive, it's time to try another! The folks that live in this remote part of Alaska do whatever it takes to make it work. There's a freedom that can't be had in civilization, but the price is high. These are their stories.Tom Hunt and his wife live on a small island about a mile from Ketchikan, Alaska. There aren't any cars or roads, so everyone lives on or by the water. They've worked in construction, commercial fishing and teaching. "We live in a cove named Whiskey Cove, a name from prohibition days when Canadian liquor was sold to locals before it was transported to town. The first paragraph of "Making Do" is a good description of Whiskey Cove."