The food revolution of our time has been well underway, and with the proliferation of food information many insightful books have bloomed.
We are here to share with you some of our staff favorites, hoping that our list may inspire a food revolution in you, or in your community.
- A Girl and her Pig April Bloomfield
- American Wasteland Jonathan Bloom.
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Barbara Kingsolver.
- Blood, Bones, and Butter Gabrielle Hamilton
- Eat to Live Dr. Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
- Eat Your Genes: How Genetically Modified Food Is Changing Our Diet Stephen Nottingham.
- Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease Robert H. Lustig, M.D.
- Foodopoly Wenonah Hauter.
- Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health Marion Nestle.
- Free For All: Fixing School Food in America Janet Poppendieck.
- Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health Gary Taubes.
- Home Made Yvette Van Boven.
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Life on the line Grant Achatz
- Mindless Eating: Why Eat More Than We Think Dr. Brian Wansink, Ph.D.
- Omnivore’s Dilemma Michael Pollan.
- Pandora’s Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal Melanie Warner.
- Raw Energy: 124 Raw Food Recipes for Energy Bars, Smoothies, and Other Snacks to Supercharge Your Body Stephanie L. Tourles.
- Setting The Table Danny Meyer.
- Slow Food: The Case for Taste Carlo Petrini.
- The Family Meal: Home Cooking with Ferran Adrià Ferran Adria.
- The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing’s Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living Scott and Helen Nearing.
- The One Straw Revolution Masanobu Fukuoka.
- The Unsettling of AmericaWendell Berry
- The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why Jonny Bowden Ph.D, C.N.S.
- This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader Joan Dye Gussow.
- What to Eat: An Aisle-by-Aisle Guide to Savvy Food Choices and Good Eating Marion Nestle.
- Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health William Davis, M.D.
- You Can Farm Joel Salatin.
What food related books have inspired you?
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Gosh, that’s a long list! I have only read a couple of them so I’ll plan my summer this way. Thanks.
Long indeed! There are so many amazing books out there, it was a challenge to keep the list from growing even larger! Enjoy!