Eating the Landscape Review

Chris Roppolo

Prof. Melissa Santos

ENGL 102

12 March 2018

Eating the Landscape Review

            Eating the Landscape by Enrique Salmon is a non-fiction personal narrative that focuses on the native people and farmers that keep their traditional farming practices in a world full of technological advances. Salmon travels through northern Mexico and the southeastern United States and shares how a vast range of cultures keep their traditional ways of growing crops and preparing their meals. Salmon also reveals the fear that the indigenous people’s youth are not returning from the cities to farm and keep their traditional ways going in their native land.

            Eating the Landscape does a great job with narrating these indigenous ways of farming and of preparing food. In reading this book and hearing the ways that the indigenous people farmed show that having a reciprocal relationship with Earth and the land and a connection with one’s culture is the main elements of keeping and sustaining food for all of humankind. This book does a great job explaining all these things and I would highly recommend this to anyone who’s interested in the indigenous ways of agriculture and preparation of food and is “an essential resource for ethnobotanists, food sovereignty proponents, and advocates of the local food and slow food movements.”  (goodreads.com)