7 Best cookbooks books like Silo: The Zero Waste Blueprint by Douglas McMaster

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Silo: The Zero Waste Blueprint

By: Douglas McMaster

4.02

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

“A seriously eye opening, inspiring and thought-provoking book!” - Nathan Outlaw “This is not a co…

"Make peace with human failure, it's inevitable. Everything isn't going to be OK, but you're not responsible for that which is out of your hands. All you can do is make what is in your hands positive."

-Douglas McMaster, Silo: The Zero Waste Blueprint

"Make peace with human failure, it's inevitable. Everything isn't going to be OK, but you're not responsible for that which is out of your hands. All you can do is make what is in your hands positive."

-Douglas McMaster, Silo: The Zero Waste Blueprint

"Nature is never the same twice; this inconsistency requires adaptability. There are limitless problems in the world. If we think like a machine we only find ourselves with the same problems. The problems are there because we haven't adapted a solution; the only way to find a solution is to think outside the machine. This thinking is necessary to a natural food system. There are no two vegetables that are the same, no two days of cooking that are the same, no two humans that are the same. Industrial systems give us the same ingredients every day, through all the seasons. When you put square shapes in square spaces, you don't understand the circle. Your thinking becomes linear and you can't adapt. When you adapt, your mind is able to make connections and find solutions to the unpredictable nature of real food."

-Douglas McMaster, Silo: The Zero Waste Blueprint

"Nature is never the same twice; this inconsistency requires adaptability. There are limitless problems in the world. If we think like a machine we only find ourselves with the same problems. The problems are there because we haven't adapted a solution; the only way to find a solution is to think outside the machine. This thinking is necessary to a natural food system. There are no two vegetables that are the same, no two days of cooking that are the same, no two humans that are the same. Industrial systems give us the same ingredients every day, through all the seasons. When you put square shapes in square spaces, you don't understand the circle. Your thinking becomes linear and you can't adapt. When you adapt, your mind is able to make connections and find solutions to the unpredictable nature of real food."

-Douglas McMaster, Silo: The Zero Waste Blueprint

If you liked the cookbooks plot in Silo: The Zero Waste Blueprint by Douglas McMaster , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, Barry Miles, James Grauerholz

1. Naked Lunch

By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more

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"Exterminate all rational thought"

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

Cover of The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness and the Making of a Great Chef by Marco Pierre White, James Steen

2. The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness and the Making of a Great Chef

By: Marco Pierre White , James Steen

3.97

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

What do Mario Batali and Gordon Ramsay have in common? They survived tours of duty in the kitchen … read more

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  • cookbooks
  • food
  • nonfiction
"If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you."

-Marco Pierre White, The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness and the Making of a Great Chef

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3. Salt: A World History

By: Mark Kurlansky

4.11

Format: None pages,

From the Bestselling Author of Cod and The Basque History of the World In his fifth work of nonfict… read more

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  • food
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby, Jeremy Leggatt

4. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

By: Jean-Dominique Bauby , Jeremy Leggatt

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young child… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food by Dan Barber

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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  • food
  • nonfiction
  • sustainability
  • environment
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6. Work Clean: The life-changing power of mise-en-place to organize your life, work, and mind

By: Dan Charnas

3.50

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The first organizational book inspired by the culinary world, taking mise-en-place outside the kitc… read more

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  • food
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Circle (The Circle, #1) by Dave Eggers

7. The Circle (The Circle, #1)

By: Dave Eggers

3.43

Format: 493 pages, Hardcover

alternate cover for ISBN 9780385351393 When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the wor… read more

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"Why shouldn’t your curiosity about the world be rewarded?"

-Dave Eggers, The Circle (The Circle, #1)

"Grief doesn't arrive on schedule, as much as we'd like to."

-Dave Eggers, The Circle (The Circle, #1)

"There’s less need to slowly acclimate these guys to the tank,"

-Dave Eggers, The Circle (The Circle, #1)

"Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape."

-Dave Eggers, The Circle (The Circle, #1)

8. The Wasp Factory

By: Iain Banks

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed B… read more

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9. A Work in Progress: Notes on Food, Cooking and Creativity

By: None

4.15

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A Work in Progressis the highly anticipated follow-up to Rene Redzepi's James Beard and IACP Award-… read more

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10. 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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11. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

By: John Le Carré

3.94

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he cr… read more

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12. Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business

By: None

3.95

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

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13. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

4.40

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable… read more

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14. Relæ: A Book of Ideas

By: None

3.00

Format: None pages,

Chef Christian F. Puglisi opened restaurant Relae in 2010 on a rough, run-down stretch of one of Co… read more

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15. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

By: Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • environment
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

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16. The Order of Time

By: Carlo Rovelli

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explo… read more

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  • nonfiction
"We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being."

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

"Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution."

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

"Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same."

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

"Before Newton, time for humanity was the way of counting how things changed. Before him, no one had thought it possible that a time independent of things could exist. Don't take your intuitions and i…"

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

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17. No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

By: Greta Thunberg

3.86

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice … read more

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  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • environment
"The real power belongs to the people."

-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

"...But it is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of a few."

-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

"You say that you love your children above everything else. And yet you are stealing their future."

-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

"Those of us who are still children can’t change what you do now once we’re old enough to do something about it."

-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

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18. Wilding

By: Isabella Tree

4.46

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • environment
"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

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19. In Ascension

By: Martin MacInnes

3.79

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more

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"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

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20. A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City

By: Edward Chisholm

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An evocative portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris as seen through the eyes of a young w… read more

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  • food
  • nonfiction
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21. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

By: Bill Gates

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing … read more

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  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • environment
Cover of Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect by Will Guidara

22. Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect

By: Will Guidara

4.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

National Bestseller Essential lessons in hospitality for every business, from the former co-owner … read more

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  • food
  • nonfiction
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23. The Precipice

By: Toby Ord

4.00

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central ch… read more

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  • nonfiction
"If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Humanity is about two hundred thousand years old. But the Earth will remain habitable for hundreds of millions more—enough time for millions of futu…"

-Toby Ord, The Precipice

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24. Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

By: George Monbiot

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

"This remarkable book, staring curiously down at the soil beneath our feet, points us convincingly … read more

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  • food
  • nonfiction
  • sustainability
  • environment
"Charity is what happens when government fails."

-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

"Obesity is a communicable disease. Its vectors are corporations."

-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

"Campaigners, chefs, and food writers rail against “intensive farming,"

-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

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25. Foundations of Flavor: The Noma Guide to Fermentation

By: René Redzepi

4.56

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller Named one of the Best Cookbooks of the Year by the Chicago Tribune, New Y… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food and drink
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26. What About Men?

By: Caitlin Moran

3.70

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

As any feminist who talks about the problems of girls and women will know, the first question you w… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Finally I read 12 Rules for Life and there is some good stuff in it. Peterson’s step by step advice on how to properly argue with loved ones and come to an agreement that is satisfying to both is und…"

-Caitlin Moran, What About Men?

Cover of Flavorama: A Guide to Unlocking the Art and Science of Flavor by Arielle  Johnson

27. Flavorama: A Guide to Unlocking the Art and Science of Flavor

By: Arielle Johnson

4.37

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

An irreverent, accessible, essential guide to the science of flavor and how to use it in your own k… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • food
  • nonfiction
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28. Silo: The Zero Waste Blueprint

By: Douglas McMaster

4.02

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

“A seriously eye opening, inspiring and thought-provoking book!” - Nathan Outlaw “This is not a co… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • sustainability
  • food and drink
  • environment
"Make peace with human failure, it's inevitable. Everything isn't going to be OK, but you're not responsible for that which is out of your hands. All you can do is make what is in your hands positive."

-Douglas McMaster, Silo: The Zero Waste Blueprint

"Nature is never the same twice; this inconsistency requires adaptability. There are limitless problems in the world. If we think like a machine we only find ourselves with the same problems. The prob…"

-Douglas McMaster, Silo: The Zero Waste Blueprint

Cover of Larder: From pantry to plate - delicious recipes for your table by Robin Gill

29. Larder: From pantry to plate - delicious recipes for your table

By: Robin Gill

4.33

Format: 536 pages, Kindle Edition

Robin Gill has revolutionised the way British food is cooked and enjoyed, with his philosophy of co… read more

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  • cookbooks
Cover of Ikoyi: A Journey Through Bold Heat with Recipes by Jeremy Chan

30. Ikoyi: A Journey Through Bold Heat with Recipes

By: Jeremy Chan

5.00

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

‘In what seems like only a brief moment, Ikoyi has shaken the world of cooking.' – René Redzepi, ch… read more

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  • cookbooks
Cover of Slippurinn: Recipes and Stories from Iceland by Gísli Matt

31. Slippurinn: Recipes and Stories from Iceland

By: Gísli Matt

4.80

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

'To eat at Slippurinn is blissful. To have Matt’s recipes is a gift.’ –   Diana Henry  The debut… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • food

18 best-selling nonfiction books like Silo: The Zero Waste Blueprint by Douglas McMaster

Transform Your Habits

The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness and the Making of a Great Chef

Marco Pierre White , James Steen

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Salt: A World History

Mark Kurlansky

4.11

Transform Your Habits

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Jean-Dominique Bauby , Jeremy Leggatt

3.50

Transform Your Habits

The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food

Dan Barber

3.32

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Transform Your Habits

The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science

J. Kenji López-Alt

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

Jonathan Kennedy

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Cal Newport

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Antoni: Let's Do Dinner

Antoni Porowski

4.17

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