This website accompanies a book called Stuffed and Starved. Buy your copy at your local independent bookstore or find it online at Bookfinder.com.

This page has details on the book, events, updates and reviews.

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The Book

The book is published in the UK by Portobello Books , in Australia and New Zealand by Black Inc Books, in India by HarperCollins India, in Canada by HarperCollins and in the US, by Melville House Books.

There are also versions in Dutch, published by World Publishers (Uitgeverij De Wereld), in Italian, published by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, in Korean published by Younglim Cardinal, and in Spanish by Los Libros del Lince.

Events
I'll be on the road for the next few months to promote the book. The confirmed list of events is below. To arrange a speaking gig please use this form.

• Thursday August 21, 7.30pm Modern Times Bookstore, San Francisco.
• Friday August 22, 7pm Books Inc. Opera Plaza, 601 Van Ness, San Francisco.
• Tuesday August 26, 7.30pm, Keplers, Palo Alto.
• Wednesday August 27, 6.30pm Commonwealth Club, San Francisco.
• Thursday August 28, 7pm Book Passage, Corte Madera.
• Friday August 29, 9am, Slow Food Nation (with Carlo Petrini, Vandana Shiva and Michael Pollan)
• Saturday August 30, 6.30pm, Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, Fort Mason Book Bay, San Francisco.
• Tuesday September 2, 7.30pm, San Mateo Peace and Justice Coalition, St. Catherine of Siena Parish, 1310 Bayswater Ave. Burlingame.
• Wednesday September 3, 7pm, Slow Food Nation Considered, Wheeler Auditorium, UC Berkeley
• Thursday September 4, 7pm, Revolution Books, Berkeley.
• Tuesday September 9, 6:30 p.m., Friends of the SF Public Library presentation at
  The San Francisco Center for the Book, 300 De Haro Street

Chapter updates
Many of the posts on this site relate to Chapters in Stuffed and Starved. Click on the links below to follow them up.

Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - A Rural Autopsy
Chapter 3 - You Have Become Mexican
Chapter 4 - “Just a cry for Bread"
Chapter 5 - The Customer is Our Enemy
Chapter 6 - Better Living through Chemistry
Chapter 7 - Glycine Rex
Chapter 8 - Checking out of Supermarkets
Chapter 9 - Chosen by bunnies
Chapter 10 - Food Sovereignty

Advance Praise

"One of the most dazzling books I have read in a very long time. The product of a brilliant mind and a gift to a world hungering for justice." -- Naomi Klein

"There’s one book above all I’d like to see at the top of the bestseller lists: Raj Patel’s Stuffed and Starved from Portobello. A clear, hard-headed analysis of why and how half the world is stuffed and the other is starved. An important subject and one handled brilliantly by Patel. I hope this book will be remembered as long as Small is Beautiful and gain as much influence. Patel has written what we can only hope will be an incredibly influential critique of our food systems." -- Sue Baker, Publishing News (UK)

Reviews and Press Coverage
You can find out what the press thinks of Stuffed and Starved by clicking here.

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Posted on 27 November, 2006 - 00:48