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An Eater's Manifesto
by Michael Pollan
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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
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by Mary Beard
Published Dec 2017
Read Reviews"A modern feminist classic." - The Guardian
From the internationally acclaimed classicist and New York Times best-selling author comes this timely manifesto on women and power.
by Isabel Vincent
Published Jun 2017
Read ReviewsA nonagenarian and a recently divorced reporter meet weekly for dinner, and the discussion ranges from the importance of beauty, to living after loss, to the power of love to redeem and renew, to how to make a succulent duck breast.
by Dana Goodyear
Published Nov 2014
Read ReviewsAnything That Moves is a highly entertaining, revelatory look into the raucous, strange, fascinatingly complex world of contemporary American food culture, and the places where the extreme is bleeding into the mainstream.
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 Alan Weisman
Published Aug 2008
Read ReviewsIn The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanitys impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us.
by Barbara Kingsolver
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsBestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.
by Morgan Spurlock
Published May 2006
Read ReviewsCan man live on fast food alone? Spurlock tried to do just that for a month during which he gained twenty-five pounds, his blood pressure skyrocketed, and his libido all but disappeared. In this groundbreaking, hilarious book, Spurlock debuts a wry investigative voice that will appeal to anyone interested in the health of our country, our children...
by Greg Critser
Published Jan 2004
Read ReviewsCritser's portrait of Fat America including forays into the diabetes ward of a major children's hospital make Fat Land a chilling but eloquent portrait of the cost in human lives - many of them very young lives - of America's obesity epidemic.
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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