The title Loving the Earth speaks for itself: cultivating and guarding the environment, in fact, are a leitmotiv of our time and the aspiration of all those who wish to make the Planet Earth a little healthier, more prosperous, and a happier place to live on.

The book resonates with the voices of great men and women in tune with the Terra Madre network and its extraordinary humanity: farmers, fishers, nomads, artisans, cooks, musicians, intellectuals and ordinary citizens.

In its pages speak Nobel Prize winners, cooks who have changed world gastronomy, icons of the musical and literary and rural world, men of religious spirit who have illuminated more than just the ways of the soul.