Eat Like the Jonai arose from Tammi’s desire to share not only recipes for how the Jonai eat, but a philosophical and political treatise to grow, barter, buy, cook and eat yourself, others, and the planet happy.
Part memoir, part scholarship, always activist, and forever seeking the most ethical and just ways to produce, procure, process and proffer food, this book aims to give you greater skills and confidence whether you’re slow cooking a pork shoulder or working out whether to order it on a menu.
Each genre of food - breakfast, veg-forward dishes, pork, other meats, grains, condiments and sugar - opens with its politics, which fundamentally shape our food and agriculture systems.
Tammi has distilled a lifetime of worrying at the food system into her cookbook so that you can serve your meals with a side of food politics too.
We advocate for food systems transformation collectively as members of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance, and Tammi is Focal Point for Farmers, and Chair of the AFSA Legal Defence Fund, working to support small-scale farmers and eaters in their right to determine their own food and agriculture systems in the face of scale-inappropriate regulations and planning. If you want to do more to support farmers like us and the food systems we're creating, join AFSA now!
We acknowledge that we are farming on the lands of the Dja Dja Wurrung people, whose sovereignty over our area was never ceded and extend our respect to elders past and present. We endeavour to care for this land with grace and respect for the many thousands of years of custodianship of the Original Owners before us. We think acknowledgement is important but insufficient restitution for the stolen lands of the Original Owners, and so we also pay the rent. We do so by paying 1% of our monthly income to https://paytherent.net.au/. We will continue to search for more ways to offer our solidarity to the Dja Dja Wurrung and all Indigenous Peoples of Australia and around the globe.