Friday, February 27, 2009

Books we Recommend

Read up on sustainable agriculture, the local food movement, whole foods, organic agriculture, food systems, and more! These books have been placed in loose categories to try and serve as a guide... but many of these books have all kinds of crossover between nutrition, gardening, cooking, food politics and local food and on.

Got a book to suggest? Email us!

 Food/ Food Culture/ Nutrition:
Why Some Like it Hot: Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity, 2004 by Gary Paul Naban
Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods, 2001 by Gary Paul Naban
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver (also gardening/ politics.)
Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket by Brian Halweil
 Food in History by Reay Tannahill in 1973
Real Food: What to Eat and Why by Nina Plank (Nutrition) 
The Happiness Diet:  Tyler Grahm and Drew Ramsey MD. (Nutrition)
In Defense of Food , by Michael Pollan
Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Throughout the Ages , by Anne Mendelson 
 Secret Suppers
Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally by Alisa Smith and J.B. Mackinnon

Gardening and Working With Nature: 
Settled In The Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town, 2010 by Susan Hand Shetterly
The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earth Worms, by Amy Stewart
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations by David R. Montgomery
 Four Season Harvest by Eliot Coleman
How to Grow More Vegetables and Fruits John Jeavons
Second Nature by Michael Pollan
Teaming with Microbes: A Gardeners Guide to the Soil Food Web
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan


Politics of Food :
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health, by Marion Nestle
Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can truly Eat Responsibly, by James E. McWilliams
 Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine, by Marion Nestle.
In Defense of Food , by Michael P
Food Matters: A Guide To Conscious Eating, by Mark Bittman
Full Moon Feast: Food and Hunger For Connection by Jessica Prentice
In Defense of Food , by Michael Pollan
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved by Sandor Elix Katz
The Gift of Good Land by Wendell Berry
 The United States of Arugula

Culinary/ Cookbooks
The Art of Eating
The Art of Simple Food A cookbook by Alice Waters
Food52: Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs
How to Pick a Peach;The Search for Flavor From Farm to Table: Russ Parsons


 



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  1. Tora EstepNovember 3, 2011 at 9:01 AM

    Hi, tried to email, but my computer is doing weird things. Anyway, I have two books that I'd like to recommend: Barry Estabrook's Tomatoland, which documents environmental and worker abuses related to winter tomato production in Florida and Tanya Denckla Cobb's book Reclaiming Our Food. She's a UVA professor who had documented the myriad ways that people are changing the food system all across the country. Excellent read with lots of inspiration.

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  2. ErinNovember 3, 2011 at 6:05 PM

    Thanks Tora! I am looking forward to seeing Tanya at the state food security summit next month! Great recommendations!

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