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…
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1. The One-Straw Revolution
By: Masanobu Fukuoka
4.34
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
Fukuoka demonstrates how the way we look at farming influences the way we look at health, the schoo… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"Wajah alam merupakan sesuatu yang tidak dapat dikenal"-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
"Orang sekarang ini makan dengan pikiran mereka, tidak dengan tubuh mereka"-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
"Kebudayaan yang benar dilahirkan di alam, sederhana, rendah hati, dan murni"-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
"I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons."-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
2. Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (California Studies in Food and Culture)
By: Marion Nestle
3.94
Format: 472 pages, Paperback
We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food doll… read more
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- health
- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- science
3. Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
By: Michael Pollan
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Fire, water, air, earth--our most trusted food expert recounts the story of his culinary education … read more
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- health
- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- science
4. Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables
By: Martha Holmberg , Joshua McFadden
3.32
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
"The flavors are big. . . . Trust me: Read this book and you'll never look at cabbage the same way … read more
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- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- health
5. 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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- health
- cooking
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- food
- environment
- science
6. Letters to a Young Muslim
By: Omar Saif Ghobash
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
"In a series of personal letters to his sons, Omar Saif Ghobash offers a short and highly readable … read more
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- nonfiction
7. Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line
By: Michael Gibney
4.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The back must slave to feed the belly. . . . In this urgent and unique book, chef Michael Gibney us… read more
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- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
8. 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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9. Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
By: Bee Wilson , None
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Technology in the kitchen does not just mean the Pacojets and sous-vide of the modernist kitchen. I… read more
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10. The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones
By: Anthony Bourdain
4.15
Format: 384 pages,
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11. 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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12. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
By: Michael Pollan
3.66
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described… read more
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13. Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America
By: Michael Ruhlman
3.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Cookbook author and food writer Ruhlman explores the evolution of the American grocery store and ho… read more
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14. 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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15. Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
By: David R. Montgomery
3.57
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
Dirt, soil, call it what you want--it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporti… read more
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16. This Is Your Mind on Plants
By: Michael Pollan
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs--opium, caffeine, … read more
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- science
- food
- nonfiction
- health
"[Taloma] offered prayers for us and for our troubled country and world. She invoked the spirit of the cactus in teaching us how to heal ourselves and how, once healed, we could better help to heal ot…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"The war on drugs is in truth a war on some drugs, their enemy status the result of historical accident, cultural prejudice, and institutional imperative. The taxonomy on behalf of which this war is b…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"How can you possibly expect to write anything when you can't concentrate? That's pretty much all writers do: take the blooming multiplicity of the world and our experience of it, literally concentrat…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"There's a parable here somewhere, about the difference between journalism and history. What might appear to be "the story" in the present moment may actually be a distraction from it, a shiny object …"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
17. 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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- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"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
18. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
By: Michael Pollan
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee coll… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"Memory is the enemy of wonder"-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
"For great many species today, “fitness"-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
"The bubble logic driving tulipomania has since acquired a name: “the greater fool theory."-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
"It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins."-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
19. We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto
By: Alice Waters
3.89
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From chef and food activist Alice Waters, an impassioned plea for a radical reconsideration of the … read more
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- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- health
"In the United States alone, about 30 to 40 percent of our entire food supply is wasted every year, according to estimates from the USDA. I find that particularly sad."-Alice Waters, We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto
"When all we care about is cheapness, we don't ask how long things will last or how well they are made--and in truth, we don't particularly care. Because when a product is cheap, it becomes disposable…"-Alice Waters, We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto
20. Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer
By: Bren Smith
4.39
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER IACP Cookbook Award nomineeIn the face of apocalyptic climate change, a fo… read more
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- sustainability
- nonfiction
- food
- environment
- science
"It's stunning how, under the weight of ecological collapse, a hundred years of culture can be gutted overnight. The metronome of our music and poetry isn't the ocean, it's fish. With cod gone meaning…"-Bren Smith, Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer
21. 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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- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- 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
