{"id":23560,"date":"2025-03-08T21:02:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T22:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=23560"},"modified":"2025-03-08T22:25:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T22:25:54","slug":"joan-dye-gussow-pioneer-of-eating-locally-is-dead-at-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=23560","title":{"rendered":"Joan Dye Gussow, Pioneer of Eating Locally, Is Dead at 96"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An indefatigable gardener, she was concerned, a colleague said, with \u201call the things that have to happen for us to get our food.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Joan Dye Gussow, a nutritionist and educator who was often referred to as the matriarch of the \u201ceat locally, think globally\u201d food movement, died on Friday at her home in Piermont, NY., in Rockland County. She was 96.<\/p>\n

Her death, from congestive heart failure, was announced by Pamela A. Koch, an associate professor of nutrition education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where Ms. Gussow, a professor emeritus, had taught for more than half a century.<\/p>\n

Ms. Gussow was one of the first in her field to emphasize the connections between farming practices and consumers\u2019 health. Her book \u201cThe Feeding Web: Issues in Nutritional Ecology\u201d (1978) influenced the thinking of writers including Michael Pollan and Barbara Kingsolver.<\/p>\n

\u201cNutrition is thought of as the science of what happens to food once it gets in our bodies \u2014 as Joan put it, \u2018What happens after the swallow,\u2019\u201d Ms. Koch said in an interview.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But Ms. Gussow beamed her gimlet-eyed attention on what happens before <\/em>the swallow. \u201cHer concern was with all the things that have to happen for us to get our food,\u201d Ms. Koch said. \u201cShe was about seeing the big picture of food issues and sustainability.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Gussow, an indefatigable gardener and a tub-thumper for community gardens, began deploying the phrase \u201clocal food\u201d after reviewing the statistics on the declining number of farmers in the United States. (Farm and ranch families made up less than 5 percent of the population in 1970 and less than 2 percent of the population in 2023.)<\/p>\n

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An indefatigable gardener, she was concerned, a colleague said, with \u201call the things that have to happen for us to get our food.\u201dJoan Dye Gussow, a nutritionist and educator who was often referred to as the matriarch of the \u201ceat locally, think globally\u201d food movement, died on Friday at her home in Piermont, NY., in Rockland County. She was 96.Her death, from congestive heart failure, was announced by Pamela A. Koch, an associate professor of nutrition education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where Ms. Gussow, a professor emeritus, had taught for more than half a century.Ms. Gussow was one of the first in her field to emphasize the connections between farming practices and consumers\u2019 health. Her book \u201cThe Feeding Web: Issues in Nutritional Ecology\u201d (1978) influenced the thinking of writers including Michael Pollan and Barbara Kingsolver.\u201cNutrition is thought of as the science of what happens to food once it gets in our bodies \u2014 as Joan put it, \u2018What happens after the swallow,\u2019\u201d Ms. Koch said in an interview.But Ms. Gussow beamed her gimlet-eyed attention on what happens before the swallow. \u201cHer concern was with all the things that have to happen for us to get our food,\u201d Ms. Koch said. \u201cShe was about seeing the big picture of food issues and sustainability.\u201dMs. Gussow, an indefatigable gardener and a tub-thumper for community gardens, began deploying the phrase \u201clocal food\u201d after reviewing the statistics on the declining number of farmers in the United States. (Farm and ranch families made up less than 5 percent of the population in 1970 and less than 2 percent of the population in 2023.)We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23562,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23563,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23560\/revisions\/23563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}