15 must-read science books like How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food and Drink by Paco Underhill

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How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food and Drink

By: Paco Underhill

3.50

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An “eye-opening” ( Kirkus Reviews ) and timely exploration of how our food—from where it’s grown to…

If you liked the science plot in How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food and Drink by Paco Underhill , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. 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

Similar categories in Mark Kurlansky's Salt: A World History book and Paco Underhill's How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food and Drink

  • nonfiction
  • food
  • history
  • science

2. 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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3. 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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4. The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt

By: Kara Cooney

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of he… read more

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5. I Medici. Un uomo al potere

By: Matteo Strukul

2.88

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Firenze, 1469. Lorenzo de' Medici sta vincendo il torneo in onore della sua sposa, Clarice Orsini, … read more

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6. Touch: The Science of Hand, Heart, and Mind

By: David J. Linden

3.81

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author examines how our sense of touch and emotion are interconnecte… read more

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7. The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

By: Jim Sciutto

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The essential new book by CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto, reporting from the… read more

Similar categories in Jim Sciutto's The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War book and Paco Underhill's How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food and Drink

  • nonfiction
  • history
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8. 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

Similar categories in Dan Saladino's Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them book and Paco Underhill's How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food and Drink

  • audiobook
  • history
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food and drink
  • 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

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9. Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales

By: Doreen Cunningham

3.92

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

In this lyrical memoir of motherhood, love, and resilience, a woman and her toddler son follow the … read more

Similar categories in Doreen Cunningham's Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales book and Paco Underhill's How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food and Drink

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • science
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10. Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery

By: Scott H. Young

3.70

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Ultralearning explores why it’s so difficult for p… read more

Similar categories in Scott H. Young's Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery book and Paco Underhill's How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food and Drink

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Desmond's Poverty, by America book and Paco Underhill's How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food and Drink

  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
  • audiobook
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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12. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

By: Amanda Montell

3.54

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Montell's The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality book and Paco Underhill's How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food and Drink

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

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13. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

Similar categories in Zoë Schlanger's The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth book and Paco Underhill's How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food and Drink

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • science
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14. If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

By: Geraldine DeRuiter

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays … read more

Similar categories in Geraldine DeRuiter's If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury book and Paco Underhill's How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food and Drink

  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power by Dana Mattioli

15. The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power

By: Dana Mattioli

4.10

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From veteran Amazon reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in in… read more

Similar categories in Dana Mattioli's The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power book and Paco Underhill's How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food and Drink

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
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16. Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It

By: Kashmir Hill

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The story of a small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforceme… read more

Similar categories in Kashmir Hill's Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It book and Paco Underhill's How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food and Drink

  • science
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
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17. Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys

By: Joe Coulombe

3.46

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Build an iconic shopping experience that your customers love—and a work environment that your emplo… read more

Similar categories in Joe Coulombe's Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys book and Paco Underhill's How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food and Drink

  • history
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine by Robert H. Lustig

18. Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine

By: Robert H. Lustig

4.28

Format: 416 pages, ebook

An urgent manifesto and strategy to cure both us and the planet.Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric neur… read more

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  • audiobook
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Life in the Fasting Lane: The Essential Guide to Making Intermittent Fasting Simple, Sustainable, and Enjoyable by Jason Fung

19. Life in the Fasting Lane: The Essential Guide to Making Intermittent Fasting Simple, Sustainable, and Enjoyable

By: Jason Fung

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Take the guesswork (and fear) out of fasting with real-life and expert advice about the number-one … read more

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  • science
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"...my work: to destigmatize obesity and give everyone the tools to live the healthiest life possible."

-Jason Fung, Life in the Fasting Lane: The Essential Guide to Making Intermittent Fasting Simple, Sustainable, and Enjoyable

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20. How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America

By: Priya Fielding-Singh

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating look at dietary differences along class lines, revealing that lack of access to healt… read more

Similar categories in Priya Fielding-Singh's How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America book and Paco Underhill's How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food and Drink

  • history
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • audiobook
Cover of Eat & Flourish: How Food Supports Emotional Well-Being by Mary Beth Albright

21. Eat & Flourish: How Food Supports Emotional Well-Being

By: Mary Beth Albright

3.98

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

A lively and evidence-based argument that a whole food diet is essential for good mental health. Fo… read more

Similar categories in Mary Beth Albright's Eat & Flourish: How Food Supports Emotional Well-Being book and Paco Underhill's How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food and Drink

  • science
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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22. The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning

By: A.J. Jacobs

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically attempts to follow the origi… read more

Similar categories in A.J. Jacobs's The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning book and Paco Underhill's How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food and Drink

  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history
  • audiobook
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23. The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's Mind

By: Jonah Berger

3.93

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the author of New York Times bestsellers Contagious and Invisible Influence comes a revolution… read more

Similar categories in Jonah Berger's The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's Mind book and Paco Underhill's How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food and Drink

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
"Letting potential hires choose which dimension is more important makes them feel like they have more of an active role in the process—and hopefully satisfies their need to negotiate. By letting candi…"

-Jonah Berger, The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's Mind

"Try to convince people to do something, and they spend a lot of time counterarguing. Thinking about all the various reasons why it’s a bad idea or why something else would be better. Why they don’t w…"

-Jonah Berger, The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's Mind

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24. Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug

By: Augustine Sedgewick

3.59

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The epic story of how coffee connected and divided the modern world Coffee is an indispensable p… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • food and drink
  • business
  • science
"Історична батьківщина рослини, яка по-ботанічному називається Coffea arabica, — Ефіопія. Просто в XVI–XVII століттях кавою монопольно торгували арабські купці з єменського узбережжя Червоного моря, а…"

-Augustine Sedgewick, Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug

"...means the destruction of our nation just as surely as it meant the destruction of Egypt and Rome and Spain and Germany and all the other nations who came to measure their greatness by their materi…"

-Augustine Sedgewick, Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug

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25. Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America

By: Shefali Luthra

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An urgent, intimate investigation into the experience of seeking an abortion after the fall of Roe … read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of What We Carry: A Memoir by Maya Shanbhag Lang

26. What We Carry: A Memoir

By: Maya Shanbhag Lang

4.32

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In caring for her aging mother and her own young daughter, writer Maya Shanbhag Lang--"a new voice … read more

Similar categories in Maya Shanbhag Lang's What We Carry: A Memoir book and Paco Underhill's How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food and Drink

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America by Abrahm Lustgarten

27. On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America

By: Abrahm Lustgarten

4.11

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Humanity is on the precipice of a great climate migration, and Americans will not be spared. Tens o… read more

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  • economics
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Six Ostriches (Dr. Bannerman Vet Mystery #2) by Philipp Schott

28. Six Ostriches (Dr. Bannerman Vet Mystery #2)

By: Philipp Schott

3.79

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

It’s springtime in rural Manitoba, and the snow has finally left the exotic animal farm when an ost… read more

Similar categories in Philipp Schott's Six Ostriches (Dr. Bannerman Vet Mystery #2) book and Paco Underhill's How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food and Drink

  • audiobook
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29. How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food and Drink

By: Paco Underhill

3.50

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An “eye-opening” ( Kirkus Reviews ) and timely exploration of how our food—from where it’s grown to… read more

Similar categories in Paco Underhill's How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food and Drink book and Paco Underhill's How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food and Drink

  • audiobook
  • history
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • adult
  • food and drink
  • business
  • science
Cover of I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine by Daniel J. Levitin

30. I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine

By: Daniel J. Levitin

4.14

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author of This Is Your Brain on Music Daniel J. Levi… read more

Similar categories in Daniel J. Levitin's I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine book and Paco Underhill's How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food and Drink

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Origin Story: The Trials of Charles Darwin by Howard Markel

31. Origin Story: The Trials of Charles Darwin

By: Howard Markel

3.83

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A lively account of how Darwin’s work on natural selection transformed science and society, and an … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
  • audiobook

7 must-read adult books like How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food and Drink by Paco Underhill

Transform Your Habits

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Amanda Montell

3.54

Transform Your Habits

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Life in the Fasting Lane: The Essential Guide to Making Intermittent Fasting Simple, Sustainable, and Enjoyable

Jason Fung

3.88

Transform Your Habits

The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning

A.J. Jacobs

4.08

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11 Best adult books like The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning by A.J. Jacobs

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

James Patterson

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show

Tommy Tomlinson

4.20

Transform Your Habits

When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day

Garrett M. Graff

4.59

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