Closing the Food Gap : 9780807047316 : 01 Jan 2009 : This powerful call to arms offers a realistic vision for getting locally produced, healthy food onto everyone's table, ?[blending] a passion for sustainable living with compassion for the poor? (Dr. Jane Goodall)   In Closing the Food Gap, food activist and journalist Mark Winne poses questions too often overlooked in our current conversations around food: What about those people who are not financially able to make conscientious choices about where and how to get food? And in a time of rising rates of both diabetes and obesity, what can we do to make healthier foods available for everyone? To address these questions, Winne tells the story of how America's food gap has widened since the 1960s, when domestic poverty was ?rediscovered,? and how communities have responded with a slew of strategies and methods to narrow the gap, including community gardens, food banks, and farmers' markets. The story, however, is not only about hunger i