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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan Staff Pick True or false: One out of every four items for sale in the average American supermarket contains corn? (Think, think, think...) Believe it or not, it's true. If this unsettles you — or just plain doesn't make sense — pick up a copy of Michael Pollan... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America by Gustavo Arellano Publisher Comments Nationally syndicated columnist and bestselling author of ¡Ask a Mexican! Gustavo Arellano presents an entertaining, tasty trip through the history and culture of Mexican food in this country, uncovering great stories and charting the cuisines... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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Sweet Tooth: The Bittersweet History of Candy by Kate Hopkins Publisher Comments A cultural history of candy—how it evolved from medicine and a luxury to today's Kit Kat bars and M&M's Told through the Kate Hopkins' travels in Europe and the U.S., Sweet Tooth is a first-hand account of her obsession with candy and... (read more) Your price: $25.99 New - Hardcover
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Mission Street Food: Recipes and Ideas from an Improbable Restaurant by Karen Leibowitz and Anthony Myint Staff Pick This first book from McSweeney's new cookbook imprint perfectly encapsulates the spirit of the both the publisher and the featured restaurant. Mission Street Food (the restaurant) is a shifting entity that's difficult to define — and this... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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Cheese and Culture: A History of Cheese and Its Place in Western Civilization by Paul Kindstedt Publisher Comments Behind every traditional type of cheese there is a fascinating story. By examining the role of the cheesemaker throughout world history and by understanding a few basic principles of cheese science and technology, we can see how different cheeses have... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky Publisher Comments Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the World, here turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock we eat, salt has shaped civilization from the very beginning... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky Publisher Comments A delightful romp through history with all its economic forces laid bare, Cod is the biography of a single species of fish, but it may as well be a world history with this humble fish as its recurring main character. Cod, it turns out, is the reason... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan Publisher Comments The bestselling author of The Botany of Desire explores the ecology of eating to unveil why we consume what we consume in the twenty-first century. "What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another this simple question assails any creature... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage Staff Pick Like Nathaniel's Nutmeg: Or, the True and Incredible Adventure of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History, Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, and other enjoyable histories that... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man by Mark Kurlansky Publisher Comments Break out the TV dinners! From the author who gave us Cod, Salt, and other informative bestsellers, the first biography of Clarence Birdseye, the eccentric genius inventor whose fast-freezing process revolutionized the food industry and American... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $18.17 Sale - Hardcover
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Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer Publisher Comments Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between carnivore and vegetarian. As he became a husband and a father, he kept returning to two questions: Why do we eat animals? And would we eat them if we knew how they got... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Eating Animals (09 Edition) by Jonathan Safran Foer Publisher Comments Like many young Americans, Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. As he became a husband, and then a father, the moral dimensions of eating became... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mindful Carnivore: A Vegetarian's Hunt for Sustenance by Tovar Cerulli Publisher Comments As a boy, Tovar Cerulli spent his summers fishing for trout and hunting bullfrogs. While still in high school, he began to experiment with vegetarianism. By the age of twenty he was a vegan. A decade later, in the face of declining health, he returned to... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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Absinthe: History in a Bottle by Barnaby Conrad Publisher Comments Crystal clear in the bottle, potent emerald green in the glass, and 144 proof — absinthe is as illicit as it is intoxicating. It's also among history's most notorious liquors — romanticized and maligned in equal measure. Here for the first... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Surprising Power of Family Meals: How Eating Together Makes Us Smarter, Stronger, Healthier, and Happier by Miriam Weinstein Publisher Comments How often does a book come along that will change your life? The Surprising Power of Family Meals will. Digesting its information and implementing even a few of its helpful suggestions will benefit every member of your family in deep and lasting ways... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf by Aaron Bobrow-strain Publisher Comments How did white bread, once an icon of American progress, become “white trash”? In this lively history of bakers, dietary crusaders, and social reformers, Aaron Bobrow-Strain shows us that what we think about the humble, puffy loaf says a lot... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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The True History of Tea by Victor H Mair Publisher Comments World-renowned sinologist Victor H. Mair teams up with journalist Erling Hoh to tell the story of this remarkable beverage and its uses, from ancient times to the present, from East to West. For the first time in a popular history of tea, the Chinese... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Food Inc.: How Industrial Food Is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer -- And What You Can Do about It: A Participant Guide by Karl Weber Publisher Comments Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as “more than a terrific movie—its an important movie.”... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Cookbook Library: Four Centuries of the Cooks, Writers, and Recipes That Made the Modern Cookbook by Anne Willan Publisher Comments This gorgeously illustrated volume began as notes on the collection of cookbooks and culinary images gathered by renowned cookbook author Anne Willan and her husband Mark Cherniavsky. From the spiced sauces of medieval times to the massive roasts and... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $44.38 Google eBooks - Electronic
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At Home on the Range by Margaret Yardley Potter Publisher Comments Recently, while moving into a new house, Elizabeth Gilbert unpacked some boxes of family books that had been sitting in her mother's attic for decades. Among the old, dusty hardcovers was a book called At Home on the Range (or, How To Make Friends with... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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