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A Year of Food Life
by Barbara Kingsolver
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by Jeff Gordinier
Published Jul 2020
Read ReviewsA food critic chronicles four years spent traveling with renowned chef René Redzepi in search of the most tantalizing flavors the world has to offer.
by Ted Genoways
Published Nov 2018
Read ReviewsIs there still a place for the farm in today's America?
Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?
by Andrew Lawler
Published Apr 2016
Read ReviewsFrom ancient empires to modern economics, veteran journalist Andrew Lawler delivers a sweeping history of the animal that has been most crucial to the spread of civilization across the globe - the chicken.
by Nicholas A. Basbanes
Published Jul 2014
Read ReviewsA consideration of all things paper: Entertaining, illuminating, irresistible, a book that masterfully guides us through paper's inseparability from human culture.
by Michael Moss
Published Feb 2014
Read ReviewsThe explosive story of the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic.
by Tyler Cowen
Published Feb 2013
Read ReviewsProvocative, incisive, and as enjoyable as a juicy, grass-fed burger, An Economist Gets Lunch will influence what you'll choose to eat today and how we're going to feed the world tomorrow.
by Mark Kurlansky
Published Feb 2013
Read ReviewsThe first biography of Clarence Birdseye, the eccentric genius inventor whose fast-freezing process revolutionized the food industry and American agriculture.
by Gabrielle Hamilton
Published Jan 2012
Read ReviewsBlood, Bones & Butter is an unflinching and lyrical work. Gabrielle Hamilton's story is told with uncommon honesty, grit, humor, and passion. By turns epic and intimate, it marks the debut of a tremendous literary talent.
by Annie Proulx
Published Oct 2011
Read ReviewsProulx's first work of nonfiction in more than twenty years, Bird Cloud is the story of designing and constructing her dream house. It is also an enthralling natural history and archaeology of the region, and a family history, going back to nineteenth-century Mississippi riverboat captains and Canadian settlers.
by Hannah Nordhaus
Published May 2011
Read ReviewsThe honey bee is a willing conscript, a working wonder, an unseen and crucial link in America's agricultural industry. But never before has its survival been so unclear - and the future of our food supply so acutely challenged.
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Published Sep 2010
Read ReviewsBrilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, Eating Animals explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits - from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth - and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting.
by Michael Pollan
Published Apr 2009
Read Reviews"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, the well-considered answers he provides to the questions posed in the bestselling The Omnivore's Dilemma.
by Charles Clover
Published Mar 2008
Read Reviews"Here is the worlds fishing industry laid bare, gutted and filleted for all to see: the greed, the folly, the waste and destruction. You will never look at a fish supper in the same way again." - The Economist.
by Mayer Hillman
Published Apr 2007
Read ReviewsAn outstanding overview on global warming--and what we can do about it--from a distinguished world-class authority.
by Elizabeth Royte
Published Aug 2006
Read ReviewsA brilliant exploration into the soiled heart of the American trash can.
by Verlyn Klinkenborg
Published Jan 2004
Read ReviewsKlinkenborg brings a fresh view to the ordinary beauty of our daily lives in this year-long meditation on the deep joys of country life.
by Frances Moore Lappe, Anna Lappe
Published Apr 2003
Read ReviewsJoin one of our country's foremost activist thinkers, Frances Moore Lappé, and her daughter, Anna, on a trip around this small planet. This follow up to The Next Diet For A Small Planet helps each of us find new courage to trust ourselves and choose the world we want.
by Eric Schlosser
Published Jan 2002
Read ReviewsA groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history that may change the way America thinks about the way it eats.
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