Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
By: Mark Bittman
3.89
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and pioneering journalist, an expansive look at how h…
Want to Read $ 14.99"Ecologists recognized that resources are finite, and that nature is in charge. That's basic science. Capitalists believe that nature exists to be exploited by humans, a tenet perfectly in tune with Western religion."-Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
"Ecologists recognized that resources are finite, and that nature is in charge. That's basic science. Capitalists believe that nature exists to be exploited by humans, a tenet perfectly in tune with Western religion."-Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
"In what's usually referred to as "the Columbian Exchange" -one of history's great misnomers, given the genocide that followed - Europe took so much of value from the Indigenous people of what became known as North and South America that it was able to rule most of the world until the mid-twentieth century."-Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
"In what's usually referred to as "the Columbian Exchange" -one of history's great misnomers, given the genocide that followed - Europe took so much of value from the Indigenous people of what became known as North and South America that it was able to rule most of the world until the mid-twentieth century."-Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
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1. A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression
By: Jane Ziegelman , None , Andrew Coe
3.75
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard and her husband, a culinary historian, an in-depth expl… read more
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2. Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
By: Barry Estabrook
4.35
Format: 26 pages,
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- environment
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3. The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food
By: Dan Barber
3.32
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Barber explores the evolution of American food from the 'first plate,' or industrially-produced, me… read more
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4. Stuffed And Starved: Markets, Power And The Hidden Battle For The World Food System
By: Raj Patel
3.88
Format: None pages,
It's a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before, … read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
5. The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter
By: Peter Singer , Jim Mason
3.93
Format: None pages,
Eating is about more than satisfying our hunger. It's also about the environment, social justice, p… read more
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6. Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
By: Michael Moss
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Every year, the average American eats 33 pounds of cheese and 70 pounds of sugar. They ingest 8,500… read more
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7. Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don’t Know What You’re Eating and What You Can Do About It
By: Larry Olmsted
3.50
Format: 36 pages, Hardcover
You've seen the headlines: Parmesan cheese made from wood pulp. Lobster rolls containing no lobster… read more
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8. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
By: Michael Pollan
3.89
Format: 266 pages,
Michael Pollan's last book, The Omnivore's Dilemma, launched a national conversation about the Amer… read more
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9. Diet for a Small Planet
By: Frances Moore Lappé , None
3.21
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
With the new emphasis on environmentalism in the 1990's, Lappe stresses how her philosophy remains … read more
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10. Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
By: Michael Pollan
3.73
Format: 192 pages,
In his articles and in bestselling books such as The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan has establish… read more
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11. Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
By: Dan Saladino
4.29
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Dan Saladino's Eating to Extinction is the prominent broadcaster’s pathbreaking tour of the world’s… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
- food and drink
- environment
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"The science writer David Quammen puts it: 'When we disrupt ecosystems, we shake viruses loose from their natural hosts, and when they happens, they need a new host. Often, we are it. And so, they spi…"-Dan Saladino, Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
12. Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat
By: Marion Nestle
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A James Beard Award-winner and the author of What to Eat and Soda Politics , leading nutritionist M… read more
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"The real question here is how you -- as a reader, eater, and citizen -- can recognize and protect yourself against the onslaught of misleading information and advice that results from food-company ma…"-Marion Nestle, Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat
13. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
By: Chris van Tulleken
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more
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14. Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions
By: Michael Moss
3.80
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Michael Moss uses the latest research on addiction to uncover what the scientific and medical commu… read more
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15. Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History
By: William Alexander
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author William Alexander takes readers on the surprisingly twisty journe… read more
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16. Formerly Known As Food: How the Industrial Food System Is Changing Our Minds, Bodies, and Culture
By: Kristin Lawless
3.56
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
One of Bustle's "17 Best Nonfiction Books Coming Out In June 2018" • One of The Revelator's "16 New… read more
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17. What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health
By: David R. Montgomery
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Are you really what you eat? David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé take us far beyond the well-worn ad… read more
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18. The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat
By: Matt Siegel
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An entertaining look at the little-known history surrounding the foods we know and love. Is Italia… read more
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19. Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
By: Mark Bittman
3.89
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and pioneering journalist, an expansive look at how h… read more
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- health
- politics
- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- food and drink
- environment
- science
"Ecologists recognized that resources are finite, and that nature is in charge. That's basic science. Capitalists believe that nature exists to be exploited by humans, a tenet perfectly in tune with W…"-Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
"In what's usually referred to as "the Columbian Exchange" -one of history's great misnomers, given the genocide that followed - Europe took so much of value from the Indigenous people of what became …"-Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
"Domesticated animals were often too valuable to be eaten. Indeed, the amount of meat consumed per person may well have gone down with the advent of farming as wild animals became scarce, at least nea…"-Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
20. No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating
By: Alicia Kennedy
3.67
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A culinary and cultural history of plant-based eating in the United States that delves into the sub… read more
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21. Water, Wood, and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town
By: Hannah Kirshner
4.33
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An immersive journey through the culture and cuisine of one Japanese town, its forest, and its wate… read more
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