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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser Powells.com Staff Pick "What we eat has changed more in the last forty years than in the last forty thousand," Schlosser observes, yet most Americans know very little about how that food is made, where, by whom, and at what cost. Fast Food Nation traces the industry's... (read more) Your Price $4.95 Used - Trade Paper Four Seasons in Five Senses: Things Worth Savoring by David Mas Masumoto Publisher Comments Rushing from one thing to another, readers may lose sight of the art of living--which for California farmer Masumoto is also the art of farming.... (read more) Your Price $8.95 Used - Trade Paper Holy Cows and Hog Heaven: The Food Buyer's Guide to Farm Friendly Food by Joel Salatin Publisher Comments "Holy Cows and Hog Heaven" is written by an honest-to-goodness-dirt-under-the-fingernails, optimistic clean good farmer. His goal is to: Empower food buyers to pursue positive alternatives to the industrialized food system.Bring clean food farmers and... (read more) Your Price $17.95 New - Trade Paper The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Publisher Comments 2006 marks the one hundredth anniversary of one of the most powerful, provocative, and most enduring proletarian novels ever published in the United States. Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the... (read more) Your Price $9.95 Used - Trade Paper Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know about Fast Food by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson Publisher Comments Kids love fast food. And the fast food industry definitely loves kids. It couldn't survive without them. Did you know that the biggest toy company in the world is McDonald's? It's true. In fact, one out of every three toys given to a child in the United... (read more) Your Price $8.95 Used - Hardcover

Fields That Dream by Jenny Kurzweil Publisher Comments Fields That Dream explores the lives of refugees, immigrants, former chefs, insurance brokers, and union organizers who are now small-scale sustainable farmers. Each chapter of the book combines the story of a farmer who sells at a successful farmers... (read more) Your Price $6.95 Used - Trade Paper The Ethical Gourmet by Jay Weinstein Powells.com Staff Pick Like many, I want to eat well and yet have as little harmful impact on my environment as possible. Thanks to Weinstein I feel so much better informed about the choices I can make, and have had my eyes opened to factors I hadn't stopped to consider... (read more) Your Price $12.95 Used - Trade Paper Fields of Plenty: A Farmer's Journey in Search of Real Food and the People Who Grow It by Michael Ableman Publisher Comments Illustrated with evocative color photographs of the land and the people who work it organically, and accompanied by a bountiful selection of recipes, this beautifully written memoir reveals the power of food as a personal and cultural force.... (read more) Your Price $12.98 Sale - Hardcover Diet for a Dead Planet: How the Food Industry Is Killing Us by Christopher D Cook Publisher Comments If we are what we eat, then, as Christopher D. Cook contends in this powerful look at the food industry, we are not in good shape. The facts speak for themselves: more than 75 million Americans suffered from food poisoning last year, and 5,000 of them... (read more) Your Price $12.00 Used - Hardcover Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford Powells.com Staff Pick Much like Anthony Bourdain's sensational account of the culinary trenches of Amercian restaurant kitchens, Bill Buford's Heat gives readers an authentic look at his tenure as "kitchen slave" to celebrity chef Mario Batali. Including chapters on Batali's... (read more) Your Price $14.00 Used - Hardcover

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