He also wrote on race relations, the environment, and more. Another food book of his was "The Backpacker's Budget Food Book: How to Select and Prepare Your Provisions from Supermarket Shelves," 1977.


https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obit...wledge-7743772

Two-thirds of it:

Journalist Fred Powledge, a former reporter for the New York Times and author of many books, died on January 27, 2018, in Tucson, AZ. He was 82. Powledge wrote deeply about the civil rights movement and race relations as a reporter for the New York Times and, before that, the Atlanta Journal. His book Free At Last? The Civil Rights Movement and the People Who Made It (Little, Brown) was a New York Times Notable Book in 1991. He also wrote Black Power/White Resistance: Notes on the New Civil War (World: 1967), and a children's book, We Shall Overcome: Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement (Simon and Schuster: 1993.) Powledge began his long freelance career late in the 1960s. In addition to 17 books, he wrote articles for ( among many others) The New Yorker, Esquire, the original Life magazine, Harper's, Playboy, Family Circle, Audubon, Popular Computing, the New York Times Magazine, Redbook, BioScience, and New York Magazine. He joined the New York Times in 1963 and covered President John Kennedy's assassination as well as civil rights. Powledge took a leave from the Times in 1967 to become the first Russell Sage Fellow in Journalism and the Behavioral Sciences at Columbia University. His interests were expansive. Powledge followed a traveling tented circus for a year in a VW Microbus to write his favorite book, Mud Show: A Circus Season (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1975.) Other books included Water: The Nature, Uses, and Future of Our Most Precious and Abused Resource (Farrar, Straus, Giroux: 1982); Fat of the Land (Simon and Schuster: 1984), a book about the food industry; The New Adoption Maze and How to Get Through It (Mosby:1985); and A Forgiving Wind (Sierra Club Books: 1983), a book about learning to sail in middle age. He also wrote several children's books. Topics ranged from being adopted, to life as a child circus performer, to the search for new drugs derived from plants. Powledge made his home on Marylands Patuxent River for more than two decades, and his Working River (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux: 1995) describes its ecology, history, and uses. Working River was chosen by the American Museum of Natural History for its annual List of Nature Books for Young Readers and also received a Joan G. Sugarman Book Award. Powledge was also a serious photographer whose work has appeared in a number of books and magazines--and on the cover of one of Joan Baez's early Gold albums. He lived in a renovated Brooklyn brownstone for a quarter-century and wrote a cover story for New York Magazine about its remodeling misadventures. While based in New York, he taught several courses at the New School, and was narrator, co-producer, and writer of a 1972 Channel 13 series on New York City as the 51st State...

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https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/24/b...-the-farm.html
(book review of "Fat of the Land" - about food)

https://www.google.com/search?ei=MxU....0.w_oASoOCdDo
(Kirkus reviews)

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!ms...ooks.childrens
(birthday post from 2015, with videos, book covers and Powledge's remembrance of CBS president Lou Cowan and his wife Polly)



Lenona.

Forgot to say that "Fat of the Land" was praised by Ralph Nader, as you can (sort of) see he

https://www.amazon.com/Fat-Land-Fred.../dp/0671424351

On Saturday, June 16, 2018 at 4:40:33 PM UTC-4, wrote:
> He also wrote on race relations, the environment, and more. Another food book of his was "The Backpacker's Budget Food Book: How to Select and Prepare Your Provisions from Supermarket Shelves," 1977.

Here's the Kirkus review of that one:


"No, this is not The Backpacker's Gourmet. Powledge is one of those irreverent and affably opinionated types, ready to battle anyone on the superiority of the Optimus 99 or the (American!) Coleman Peak 1 stove, especially over the Colin Fletcher favorite, the Svea 123 (""absolute turkeys""). And his recipes are not for purists either. He's brash and unapologetic about his choices. Of course, that old standby Gorp is high on the list. He's also partial to Cup-a-Soup, Uncle Ben's Quick Rice, dried eggs, instant oatmeal, and Vienna sausages (""Some people hate Vienna sausages. Some love them. I'm ambivalent, but I always wonder while I'm eating them what they're made of""). Also, macaroni and homemade jerky, ""shrimp creole, sort of,"" and lots of dishes with curry powder for disguise. Written with more style than class and more nerve than either, this may go down better as food for thought.."