A Right to Healthy Eating

If you search for “food” and “revolution” on Chapters.Indigo.ca, eight titles will pop up—not including diet books. Include the search words “movement” and “food” and another ten show titles up. The world is alive with eagerness to change our imperilled food systems. Joining these new books is Nick Saul and Andrea Curtis’s inspirational saga of growing The Stop, the Toronto “community food centre,” into international prominence over the last 14 years. In The Stop: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement, they chronicle pivotal moments in the against-all-odds growth of a small anti-poverty organization into something that is rare, if not unparalleled, in all these revolutions and movements.

(Although the book is co-written by award–winning writer Andrea Curtis and her husband, Nick Saul, they note that “it is written in Nick’s voice, as the story … charts his 14 years at The Stop Community Food Centre.” For simplicity, I...