 | The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Buy new: $9.60 / Used from: $8.74 A very influential book (changed my life!). Pollan is a UC Berkeley Professor and journalist who writes with style and authority on US food culture and industry.
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 | Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $5.94 Gross and fun at the same time...Schlosser highly recommends In-and-Out!
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 | Alice Waters and Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution by Thomas McNamee
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $3.17 A fascinating book about the influential chef and President of Slow Food USA
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 | The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution by Alice Waters
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $19.99 |
 | Chez Panisse Vegetables by Alice L. Waters
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $18.63 Great, great information and recipes on all sorts of veg.
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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: $13.97 |
 | Slice of Organic Life
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $12.00 A fun book...I took the advice on raising chickens...now thinking about honey bees...
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 | The San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market Cookbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Impeccable Produce Plus Seasonal Recipes by Peggy Knickerbocker
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $7.50 The Ferry Building has an amazing Farmer's Market, and also a mall that showcases local food merchants...
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 | The Cheese Board: Collective Works: Bread, Pastry, Cheese, Pizza
Buy new: $16.46 / Used from: $13.93 Great Berkeley cheese shop, to-die-for pizza, across the street from Chez Panisse...
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 | Slow Food: The Case for Taste (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History) by Carlo Petrini
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $7.50 |
 | Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $9.68 Great book about Kingsolver and her family's year spent eating locally...
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 | Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America's Farmers' Markets by Deborah Madison
Buy used from: $19.50 |
 | The Santa Monica Farmers' Market Cookbook: Seasonal Foods, Simple Recipes and Stories from the Market and Farm by Amelia Saltsman
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $10.99 A book on one of the best Southern California Farmer's Markets.
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 | Slow Food: Collected Thoughts on Taste, Tradition, and the Honest Pleasures of Food
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $3.86 A nice primey by the Slow Food Movement
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 | The Pleasures of Slow Food: Celebrating Authentic Traditions, Flavors, and Recipes by Corby Kummer
Buy new: $29.20 / Used from: $0.90 |
 | Terra Madre: 1600 Food Communities
Buy new: $31.20 / Used from: $9.05 This book describes 1,600 Food Communities in 150 countries: from the hatahata fishermen of Kitaura in Japan to the raisin producers of Herat in Afghanistan; from Ethiopian forest coffee pickers to Mexican vanilla growers. Farmers, shepherds, fishermen, pork butchers, vine-dressers...all people who embody a new idea of agriculture based on taste quality, sustainability and social justice
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 | The River Cottage Meat Book by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Buy new: $24.00 / Used from: $27.94 A very toughtful and thorough book. Fearnley-Whittingstall addresses the pleasures and practicalities of being a carnivore, along with the realities of industrial meat production, and its alternatives.
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