Food Literacy

We ask ourselves questions about food every day. What should we eat? When should we eat? How much should we eat? How should we cook it? How can we reuse it? To grow? To save? To pollute less? To be healthy? The answers come together in an urgent concept: food literacy, which means, knowing what to do, knowing how to do it and applying this logic.
Eating habits In Portugal are ranked fifth among the risk factors for losing years of healthy life. This is why food literacy is so important, as is this collection of books, devoted to food and nutrition. A must-read, this first essay provides strategies for planning and managing, selecting, preparing and eating, which are essential for readers to be able to make choices that are informed, that promote health and that are attentive to the greatest challenges of the present day.

May 2023