Take Back the Tray

Short Description

Maharaj reconnects food with health, wellness, education, and rehabilitation in a way that serves people, not just budgets, and provides a blueprint for reclaiming control from corporations and brutal bottom lines.

Sales and Market Bullets

Maharaj raised over $50,000 from almost 300 backers in a Kickstarter campaign to fund the writing of this book.
Maharaj is well known domestically and internationally as part of the locavore and social gastronomy movements, was the first head chef at The Stop Community Food Centre in Toronto, and co-hosts The Hot Plate
For readers of The New Farm (Brent Preston), Feed the Resistance (Julia Turshen), and The Third Plate (Dan Barber).
Take Back the Tray includes fascinating facts such as up to 65 percent of hospital food ends up in landfills; although a hospital bed in Ontario costs $1,200 per day, less than $8 is allotted to food; and at Scarborough Hospital, Joshna served a turkey lunch made from local ingredients for only 33 cents per plate.

Audience

Local food-movement activists
Food policy makers
Joshna’s kickstarter backers
Those who work with, or are affected by, institutional food