<b>THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER<br></b><br>“<i>The Stop</i> is an inspiring true story about how a low-income neighborhood used good food to take charge of its community—it’s a great lesson for all of us.”<br><b>—Jamie Oliver</b><br><br>In 1998, when community worker Nick Saul became executive director of The Stop, it was like thousands of other food banks, offering canned handouts in a cramped, dreary, makeshift space. Today it is a thriving, internationally respected Community Food Center with gardens, kitchens, a greenhouse, farmers’ markets, and a mission to revolutionize our food system. Their message is spreading: Jamie Oliver told his 750,000 Twitter followers that he’d traveled all over the world and never seen anything like The Stop; Raj Patel, author of <i>Stuffed and Starved</i>, told <i>Alternet</i> he was "blown away" by this model of an NGO—whose mission is to work for healthy food, strong communities and political empowerment.<br> <br> In a voice that’s “never preachy” (<i>Maclean’s</i>), Saul argues that we need a new politics of food in which everyone has a dignified, healthy place at the table. <i>The Stop</i> is a “riveting” personal story (Naomi Klein) about overcoming obstacles and creating lasting change.