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The Dark Side of The All American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
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by Jonathan Miles
Published May 2014
Read ReviewsA compulsively readable, deeply human novel that examines our most basic and unquenchable emotion: want. With a satirist's eye and a romantic's heart, Miles captures the morass and comedy of contemporary life in all its excess.
by Mary Roach
Published Apr 2014
Read ReviewsThe irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside.
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 Jonathan Bloom
Published Aug 2011
Read ReviewsAs more people are going hungry while simultaneously more people are morbidly obese, American Wasteland sheds light on the history, culture, and mindset of waste while exploring the parallel eco-friendly and sustainable-food movements.
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 Rose George
Published Jul 2009
Read ReviewsAn utterly original exploration of the world of human waste that will surprise, outrageand entertain
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 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 Susan Linn
Published Aug 2005
Read ReviewsA shocking exposé of the $15 billion marketing maelstrom aimed at our children and how we can stop it.
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.
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