Locally Laid: How We Built a Plucky, ...
Lucie B. AmundsenHow a Midwestern family with no agriculture experience went from a few backyard chickens to a full-fledged farm—and discovered why local chicks are better.When Lucie Amundsen had a rare night out with her husband, she never imagined...
The Third Plate: Field Notes on the F...
Dan Barber"Not since Michael Pollan has such a powerful storyteller emerged to reform American food." —The Washington PostToday's optimistic farm-to-table food culture has a dark secret: the local food movement has failed to change ...
The Art of Loading Brush: New Agraria...
Wendell Berry"The Art of Loading Brush is singular in Berry's corpus." ―The Paris Review Wendell Berry's profound critique of American culture has entered its sixth decade, and in this gathering he reaches with deep devotion toward a l...
Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers ...
Liz CarlisleA protege of Michael Pollan shares the story of a little known group of renegade farmers who defied corporate agribusiness by launching a unique sustainable farm-to-table food movement. The story of the Lentil Underground begins on a ...
Unfinished Puzzle: Cuban Agriculture:...
May Ling ChanBook by Chan, May Ling, Freyre Roach, Eduardo Francisco
The Potlikker Papers: A Food History ...
John T. Edge"The one food book you must read this year."—Southern Living One of Christopher Kimball's Six Favorite Books About FoodA people's history that reveals how Southerners shaped American culinary identity and how race relatio...
Devoured: How What We Eat Defines Who...
Sophie EganA provocative look at how and what Americans eat and why—a flavorful blend of The Omnivore's Dilemma, Salt Sugar Fat, and Freakonomics that reveals how the way we live shapes the way we eat.Food writer and Culinary Institute of Amer...
Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance betwe...
Andrew FisherHow to focus anti-hunger efforts not on charity but on the root causes of food insecurity, improving public health, and reducing income inequality.Food banks and food pantries have proliferated in response to an economic emergency. Th...
This book contains a smidgen of information on many topics relating to neo-pioneer homesteading, a modern phenomenon that has exploded in the last 30 years. From the first glimmer of a homesteading dream through accumulating land, liv...
The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fat...
Ted GenowaysOn the production line in American packinghouses, there is one cardinal rule: the chain never slows. Under pressure to increase supply, the supervisors of meat processing plants have routinely accelerated production, leading to inhuma...
Anything That Moves: Renegade Chefs, ...
Dana GoodyearTitle: Anything That Moves( Renegade Chefs Fearless Eaters and the Making of a New American Food Culture) Binding: Paperback Author: DanaGoodyear Publisher: RiverheadBooks
Food Justice (Food, Health, and the E...
Robert GottliebIn today's food system, farm workers face difficult and hazardous conditions, low-income neighborhoods lack supermarkets but abound in fast-food restaurants and liquor stores, food products emphasize convenience rather than wholesomen...
The Land of Milk and Uncle Honey: Mem...
Alan Guebert"The river was in God's hands, the cows in ours." So passed the days on Indian Farm, a dairy operation on 700 acres of rich Illinois bottomland. In this collection, Alan Guebert and his daughter-editor Mary Grace Foxwell rec...
Change Comes to Dinner: How Vertical ...
Katherine GustafsonA fascinating exploration of America's food innovators, that gives us hopeful alternatives to the industrial food system described in works like Michael Pollan's bestselling Omnivore's Dilemma Change Comes to Dinner takes readers into...
Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustain...
Oran B. HestermanOur food system is broken, and it's endangering what's most precious to us: our environment, our health, our soil and water, and our future. In recent years, a host of books and films have compellingly documented the dangers. But advi...
The Town That Food Saved: How One Com...
Ben HewittOver the past few years, Hardwick, Vermont, a typical hardscrabble farming community of 3,000residents, has jump-started its economy and redefined its self-image through a local, self-sustainingfood system unlike anything else in Amer...
Food Fight: GMOs and the Future of th...
McKay JenkinsAre GMOs really that bad? A prominent environmental journalist takes a fresh look at what they actually mean for our food system and for us. In the past two decades, GMOs have come to dominate the American diet. Advocates hail them ...
Hippie Food: How Back-To-The-Landers,...
Jonathan Kauffman2019 James Beard Award NomineeAn enlightening narrative history—an entertaining fusion of Tom Wolfe and Michael Pollan—that traces the colorful origins of once unconventional foods and the diverse fringe movements, charismatic gur...
100 Million Years of Food: What Our A...
Stephen LeA Fascinating Tour Through the Evolution of the Human Diet and How We Can Improve Our Health by Understanding Our Complicated History with FoodThere are few areas of modern life that are burdened by as much information and advice, oft...
The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a...
Amanda LittleWINNER OF THE 2019 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD In the fascinating story of the sustainable food revolution, an environmental journalist and professor asks the question: Is the future of food looking bleak—or better than eve...
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dar...
Benjamin Lorr"A deeply curious and evenhanded report on our national appetites." The New York Times In the tradition ofFast Food NationandThe Omnivore's Dilemma, an extraordinary investigation into the human lives at the heart o...
The Modern Savage: Our Unthinking Dec...
James McWilliamsJust Food author James McWilliams's exploration of the "compassionate carnivore" movement and the paradox of humanity's relationship with animals.In the last four decades, food reformers have revealed the ecological and ethi...
Regenesis: Feeding the World Without ...
George Monbiot“This remarkable book, staring curiously down at the soil beneath our feet, points us convincingly in one of the directions we must travel. I learned something on every page.” —Bill McKibben For the first time...
A Day at the Hawai'i Plantation Museu...
Second Graders of Mrs C. InouyeThis book shows what the students saw and learned at the Hawai'i Plantation Museum. The book includes photographs of items the students found interesting and their comments about the items they saw and what they learned about them. T...
A consumer's guide to the food system, from local to global: our part as citizens in the interconnected networks, institutions, and organizations that enable our food choices.Everybody eats. We may even consider ourselves experts on t...
No Happy Cows: Dispatches from the Fr...
John RobbinsInternationally known vegan and bestselling author John Robbins has continued his observations and investigations into food politics and food-related issues of the day in his popular HuffingtonPost column, foodrevolution.org. No Happy...
Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Fo...
Michael RuhlmanIn Grocery, bestselling author Michael Ruhlman offers incisive commentary on America's relationship with its food and investigates the overlooked source of so much of it—the grocery store. In a culture obsessed with food—how it l...
Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race (Exp...
Naben RuthnumCurry is a dish that doesn't quite exist, but, as this wildly funny and sharp essay points out, a dish that doesn't properly exist can have infinite, equally authentic variations. By grappling with novels, recipes, travelogues, pop cu...
Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss...
Simran SethiAward-winning journalist Simran Sethi explores the history and cultural importance of our most beloved tastes, paying homage to the ingredients that give us daily pleasure, while providing a thoughtful wake-up call to the homogenizati...
Reclaiming the Commons: In Defense of...
Vandana ShivaReclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth lays out the scientific, legal, political, and cultural struggle to defend the sovereignty of biodiversity and indigenous knowledge. Corporate...