"The faces I have seen distorted by hate are of people for whom I have the most profound compassion, as most of them have not had enough to eat." Henry Wallace - Iowa farmer, agricultural publisher, Vice President under FDR, statesman, feminist, socialist sympathizer and futurist.
"Let thy food be thy medicine." Hippocrates
As a part of our educational outreach program, Superfood Citizen produces cookbooks, how-to guides to health and nutrition, gardening books and generally anything to promulgate and celebrate the pastoral arts of fine farming and gentle living.
publishing
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TITLES...
PRINTS...
Our professional archival ink printer makes prints up to 44" wide, on many forms of substrate. We've rounded up a collection of images by artists both obscure and noted that we love, which speak to the rural lifestyle and to the culture of food and small-farming. Take a look through our complete archive online at: xistis.com
As an imprint of Xistis Press, a independent small publishing house owned and operated by Sarai Capael, Superfood Citizen offers, one title at a time, non-fiction, cookbooks, guide books and art books to bring light to the timeless and contemporary issues and joys of agrarian and foodie lifestyles. This is a place for us to also shamelessly plug other books and projects which we consider pertinent and highly recommend.
CARDS...
We do greeting cards too! We print the cards below, but also sell cards by letterpress printers that are too special to be left out of our catalogue. Take a look through our greeting card selection online at: xistis.com
Garden classics. A truly unique set of all occasion cards featuring 5 different designs artisan letterpress printed on an antique letterpress, by hand, one color at a time, on generously sized 5" x 7" folded creme cards of recycled content card stock ... an eco-happy choice! The back of the card features an interesting vignette about the particular vegetable. Inside of each card is blank for your personal message. assortment will vary as new designs are introduced. Art by James Beyor.
Set of 10 letterpress folded cards (2 cards each of 5 designs) with creme envelopes.
Please note: due to the highly complex and artisanal nature of letterpress printing for this type of extensive, saturated, ink coverage, there may be stray ink marks on the interior of the card, considered a notable distinction of the handmade nature of letterpress printing with this full ink coverage technique - a rare skill in the realm of the most skilled letterpress printers.
$28.50
UPCOUNTRY ARTISAN LETTERPRESS CARDS
UPCOUNTRY ARTISAN LETTERPRESS CARDS
Design inspired by the simple pleasures of life! A truly unique set of all occasion cards featuring 5 different designs artisan letterpress printed on an antique letterpress, by hand, one color at a time, on generously sized 5" x 7" folded creme cards of recycled content paper...an eco-happy choice! The blank interior is for your personal message. Assortment will vary as new designs are introduced.
Set of 10 letterpress folded cards (2 cards each of 5 designs) with creme envelopes.
Please note: due to the highly complex and artisanal nature of letterpress printing for this type of extensive, saturated, ink coverage, there may be stray ink marks on the interior of the card, considered a notable distinction of the handmade nature of letterpress printing with this full ink coverage technique - a rare skill in the realm of the most skilled letterpress printers.
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$28.50
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HEIRLOOM VEGETABLES
LETTERPRESS CARDS
Trees in all their beauty! This nature inspired set of all-occasion cards features 5 different trees realistically rendered and artisan letterpress printed on an antique letterpress in multiple richly saturated colors by hand, one color at a time, on generously sized 5" x 7" folded creme cards of recycled content paper... an eco-happy choice! Also notable for the deckle edge on the cover of each card. inside of each card is blank for your personal message.assortment will vary as new designs are introduced.
Set of 10 letterpress folded cards (2 cards each of 5 designs) with creme envelopes.
Please note: due to the highly complex and artisanal nature of letterpress printing for this type of extensive, saturated, ink coverage, there may be stray ink marks on the interior of the card, considered a notable distinction of the handmade nature of letterpress printing with this full ink coverage technique - a rare skill in the realm of the most skilled letterpress printers.
$28.50
Written and photographed by Sarai Capael.
"It’s the most excited I’ve gotten over an admittedly academic volume in quite awhile. It focuses on women’s activism in Iowa farming since 1945. But it also traces the radical changes that mechanization have made to the family farm in size, productivity and the roles of all the people living on a farm. It opened up a wealth of areas of inquiry regarding how community works when farms are much larger, and when consumers are regularly far away from the farms.
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For me, this was my “rabbit hole” book of the year, where I realized how big the question of “how has the relationship between women and farming changed?” was. The answer is, “All of it, all of it has changed. Let me try to explain how enormous ‘all’ is."
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- Greta Hardin, from The Female Farmer Project
William Woys Weaver is the author of sixteen books and hundreds of articles on foods and foodways. His most recent book, As American As Shoofly Pie, is an analysis of Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine. Weaver is founding president of the Historic Foodways Society of the Delaware Valley and the director of the Keystone Center for the Study of Regional Foods and Food Tourism, a non-profit academic research institute, where he teaches courses on regional American cuisine. Dr. Weaver received his doctorate in food studies at University College Dublin, Ireland, the first doctorate awarded by the University in that field of study.
By ignoring the truth, ag-chemical enthusiasts are able to claim that pesticides and herbicides are necessary to feed the world. But science points out that low-to-mediocre crop production, weed, disease, and insect pressures are all symptoms of nutritional imbalances and inadequacies in the soil. Science in Agriculture is a concise recap of the main schools of thought that make up eco-agriculture - all clearly explained. Gain a working knowledge of chemistry, physics, and plant biology as applied to agriculture. Discover what weeds are trying to tell you about your soil's fertility needs. Learn how to design and implement a program to produce crops, pastures, turf, landscape or ornamentals of balanced nutritional and mineral content. Both farmer and professional consultant will benefit from this important work.
A sweeping history of tragic genius, cutting-edge science, and the Haber-Bosch discovery that changed billions of lives--including your own.
At the dawn of the twentieth century, humanity was facing global disaster: Mass starvation was about to become a reality. A call went out to the world’ s scientists to find a solution.
This is the story of the two men who found it: brilliant, self-important Fritz Haber and reclusive, alcoholic Carl Bosch. Together they discovered a way to make bread out of air, built city-sized factories, and saved millions of lives.
But their epochal triumph came at a price we are still paying. The Haber-Bosch process was also used to make the gunpowder and explosives that killed millions during the two world wars. Both men were vilified during their lives; both, disillusioned and disgraced, died tragically.
From one of America's most sensitive and fervent nature writers comes this classic of herbal lore and legend, new in paperback. This is not strictly a gardening book (although there is plenty for the gardener to learn in it), but a singular example of a man thinking about what he grows not only how it grows, but its roots in religion, the Bible, history and medicine. The book was written at Chimney Farm, the Maine homestead immortalized in Northern Farm to which he repaired in 1931 with his wife Elizabeth Coatsworth, and where he died in 1968.
Beston described his efforts as "part garden book, part musing study of our relation to nature through the oldest group of plants known to gardeners." But, as Roger Swain observes in his moving introduction, "Herbs and the Earth has an intensity that evokes the herbs themselves, as if, pressed between the pages, their aroma has seeped into the pages." The book is lovingly illustrated with the woodcuts of the great American stone cutter/letter designer/craftsman John Howard Benson.
Sweet Gratitude is a cookbook with a message: raw desserts aren’t only healthier for both people and the planet, they can also be every bit as tasty–indeed, sinfully so–as their mainstream counterparts. Tiziana Tamborra and Matthew Rogers, both master dessert chefs at the pioneering San Francisco-based Café Gratitude, present a tantalizing table of after-dinner or any-occasion delights. Providing authoritative information on techniques and specialty ingredients, and emphasizing the seasonal and the regional, Sweet Gratitude contains fresh takes on old favorites like pumpkin pie and tiramisu, as well as ingenious new creations like Pomegranate Fig Tart, Brazil Nut Chocolate Ganache, and Shortbread Thumbprint Cookies with Goji Berry Jam. Ideal for anyone looking for healthier dessert choices as well as a valuable resource for people with special dietary needs including those who cannot consume dairy, gluten, or refined sugar, Sweet Gratitude shows readers how to craft what may be the most elusive item in the culinary canon: the guilt-free dessert!
Here is the best of Bemelmans on the subject he loved most: la bonne table. The entrancing memories and charming pictures assembled here transport the reader behind the scenes of the great hotels of Europe and America--including the immortal "Hotel Splendide"--and such restaurants as the Tour d'Argent in Paris and Le Pavillon in New York. Memorable dishes, the eccentric geniuses of the kitchens who created them, the opulent and often astonishing patrons who ordered them, the legendary wines and the occasions they toasted, are all evoked in rich and piquant flavor.
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The gifted and exuberant Ludwig Bemelmans was trained as a boy for a career as a restauranteur, and La Bonne Table is in effect his gastonomical autobiography. He muses over great menus and great eaters--and soon makes the reader very hungry. Here, truly, is a feast of reading, as a lost world of luxury and elegance is brilliantly evoked and savored. Bemelmans' extraordinary charm captivated all who met him; it glows through the pages of La Bonne Table.
“Les dîners de Gala" is uniquely devoted to the pleasures of taste … If you are a disciple of one of those calorie-counters who turn the joys of eating into a form of punishment, close this book at once; it is too lively, too aggressive, and far too impertinent for you.”—Salvador Dalí
Food and surrealism make perfect bedfellows. The opulent dinner parties thrown by Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) and his wife and muse, Gala (1894–1982) were the stuff of legend. Luckily for us, Dalí published a cookbook in 1973, Les diners de Gala, which reveals some of the sensual, imaginative, and exotic elements that made up their notorious gatherings.