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Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (California Studies in Food and Culture)
Marion Nestle
University of California Press, 2002
A Well-Documented Book, A must read for everybody who eats
+ Marion Nestle: Knows her Political Facts about our food!
+ The same people pushing to "empower individuals" do all they can to disempower you
+ What's next?
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Roast Chicken and Other Stories
Simon Hopkinson
EBURY PRESS (RAND), 1999
Simon Hopkinson & Lindsey Bareham's Little Masterpiece
+ Wonderful !
+ Delivered On Time
+ light and entertainting for light entertaining
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The Pleasures of Slow Food: Celebrating Authentic Traditions, Flavors, and Recipes
Corby Kummer
Chronicle Books, 2002
Well-written (and beautiful) book on important movement
+ Very Good Essay on Slow Food. Little use as a cookbook
+ join slow food usa
I think that "The Pleasures of Slow Food" is a remarkable book with something for everyone. You can enjoy the engaging stories of farmers, food artisans and cultural preservationists from around the world, written in Kummer's delightful manner. Alternatively you can relish in the sheer beauty of ...
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What to Eat
Marion Nestle
North Point Press, 2007
"Eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits and vegetables, go easy on junk foods."
+ A must-have book.
+ A must have for your nutritional library
+ A Great Food Guide
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Michael Pollan
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2002
Who wouldn't love this book?
+ The Coevolution of Human Cultures and Domesticated Plants.
+ A fast read, well written, fascinating!
+ A Great Read
+ Such a good read for us beginners!
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Slice of Organic Life
DK Publishing, 2007
Serves up just that - "A Slice" of organic life,
+ Good Book on Natural Living Everyday+
+ Work with nature, not against it
+ A nice "just getting started" book
+ Love this book
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Slow Food Nation's Come to the Table: The Slow Food Way of Living
Modern Times, 2008
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Field Guide to Produce: How to Identify, Select, and Prepare Virtually Every Fruit and Vegetable at the Market
Aliza Green
Quirk Books, 2004
Produce book
+ Great Guide To Picking Produce
+ Field Guide to Produce
This book is great. It has all the produce you can think of and the ones you can't and it tells you all you need to know about the way the food is grown. Wow Great book!!!
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Michael Pollan
Penguin Press HC, The, 2008
Glad this is so popular
+ After Omnivore's Dilemma
+ Best information on nutrition I've read in years
+ Review of "In Defense of Food"
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The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution
Alice Waters
Clarkson Potter, 2007
deceptively simple, the recipes are gems
+ An Excellent Basic Cookbook
+ Excellent book and received with excellent service.
+ Enormously useful for any level of cook
+ The Basics for Everyone
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Terra Madre: 1600 Food Communities
Slow Food, 2007
This book describes 1,600 Food Communities in 150 countries: from the hatahata fishermen of Kitaura in Japan to the raisin producers of Herat in Afghanistan; from Ethiopian forest coffee pickers to Mexican vanilla growers. Farmers, shepherds, fishermen, pork butchers, vine-dressers...all people who embody a new idea of agriculture based on taste quality, sustainability and social justice. All ...
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Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden And Your Neighborhood into a Community
Heather Coburn Flores
Chelsea Green, 2006
Not a how to book, or is it
+ Wonderful Book
+ Harvesting a movement for food security, ecological sustainability and social justice!
Anyone who picks up this book expecting to find a "How to" manual on converting your lawn into an edible garden will be disappointed. However, if you're looking for some fresh ideas on not only changing out your lawn for a garden mixed with a little permaculture, activism, optimism, and community ...
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The Mad Farmer Poems
Wendell Berry
Counterpoint, 2008
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The New Farmers' Market: Farm-Fresh Ideas for Producers, Managers & Communities
Vance Corum, Marcie Rosenzweig, ...
New World Publishing, 2005
The best of all the market books I've read!
+ Love, love, love this book!
+ Easy to Read and great info
+ Worth Every Dollar
+ Sell your produce!
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Field Guide to Seafood: How to Identify, Select, and Prepare Virtually Every Fish and Shellfish at the Market
Aliza Green
Quirk Books, 2007
Good tool for buying seafood
+ portable knowledge
+ great reference
I have purchased several books on seafood hoping to find one that is devoted to the basics of buying seafood (intended for the seafood challenged). This is the book I was searching for ! It describes the various varieties of fish and shellfish, gives alternate names for them, tells something ...
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