By Lynne Chatterton – Pulcini Press Limited Edition 2010
Lynne Chatterton was born in the Riverland – an irrigated farming zone in South Australia. She farmed grapes, fruit and vegetables under irrigation. She graduated from Adelaide University with a degree in Politics and History. Later she became a rural journalist and commentator for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and then Rural Policy Adviser to the Minister of Agriculture and later the Premier of South Australia. Lynne has travelled widely in India. She has worked in West Asia and North Africa as a consultant on farming for a number of international organisations. Lynne now lives with her husband Brian, in rural Umbria where she writes, cooks and they grows olives and other food. Her other books include “Sustainable Dryland Farming – combining farmer innovation and medic pasture in a Mediterranean Climate” published by Cambridge University press and her travel memoirs “Red Herrings” published by Pulcini Press.
A typical review of the book:
“Lynne Chatterton is an Australian who now lives in Italy. She and her husband Brian have travelled widely and worked with farmers in the developing world. The book is a thoughtful distillation of her experiences. It is a book about food in the widest sense – how food is produced, the politics of food, how we shop, cook and eat – with many recipes interspersed in the text, printed in red so the eye can pick them out instantly.
It is unusual to be able to cook from recipes in a book that also tells one of “the backroom deals of pressure groups, special interests and political thuggery” that goes behind the scenes in “Foodland” – something that Lynne Chatterton is well qualified to speak of from first hand experience. having been, among other things, policy adviser in the 1970s to the then South Australian Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forests. Governments, she states unequivocally, have for the most part “not stood firmly on the side of real, nutritional food for all” but have tended to give in cravenly to the demands of large supermarket chains for regulations that serves their interests. This book is very firmly on the side of good food for all.”
Caroline Harbouri in The Mediterranean Garden July 2011
Designed by Lynne Chatterton.
Illustrated in red and black, 357 pages. Printed in Italy.
Available in Australia from Bottega Rotolo
For more information on Lynne’s book, including reviews go to:
www.cottage-umbria.com/books.html
