 | This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader by Joan Dye Gussow
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $5.01 Wonderful autobiography of a New Yorker who tries heroically to grow all her own fruits and vegetables along the Hudson River.
Great descriptions of organic gardening alongside insightful and educated political rants, recipes for fresh food, and heartwarming stories about her interactions with her local community.
Author was a professor of nutrition and ecology in NY.
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 | The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $4.88 Michael Pollan is a must for anyone interested in where our food comes from.
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 | Second Nature: A Gardener's Education by Michael Pollan
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $7.86 |
 | In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $7.16 I recommend all by this author, but have previewed the three I have enjoyed reading.
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 | Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition, and Health, Revised and Expanded Edition (California Studies in Food and Culture) by Marion Nestle
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $7.95 Politics, politics, politics. That's really what determines what we eat as a nation. This one will get you mad and revved up.
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 | What to Eat by Marion Nestle
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $6.98 Nestle is another figurehead in food and nutrition writing. NYU Professor, I believe.
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 | The Ecology of Eden: An Inquiry into the Dream of Paradise and a New Vision of Our Role in Nature by Evan Eisenberg
Buy new: $25.00 / Used from: $2.05 |
 | Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $4.13 the original treatise for the generation of the sixties
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 | The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why by Jonny Bowden
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $11.49 A reference book that provides a few pages of information on each food you should be eating including nutritional information, selecting and storing and some on preparation.
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 | Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver
Buy new: $10.76 / Used from: $7.20 read anything and everything by this passionate author.
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 | Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, And Fair by Carlo Petrini
Buy new: $15.30 / Used from: $11.25 The slow food movement offers assistance to those trying to learn and grow from the information presented in this list.
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 | Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal is Doing to the World by Eric Schlosser
Buy used from: $0.01 More of a downer than the uplifting alternatives presented, but because its a best seller you are more likely to find opportunities to talk about this work. As a grassroots movement, good local food will need the support of community members. This book opens a gateway for sharing your passion about food, public health and the environment with others.
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 | A History of Food by Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $19.45 |
 | What Are People For?: Essays by Wendell Berry
Buy used from: $6.90 The American muse for modern food writers.
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 | Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats by Sally Fallon
Buy new: $17.82 / Used from: $15.69 A little on the fringe in terms of diet restriction advice, but very good scientific explanation of the composition of food alongside great recipes.
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 | Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century (California Studies in Food and Culture) by Laura Shapiro
Buy new: $11.84 / Used from: $6.74 |
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