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The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table by Tracie Mcmillan Publisher Comments What if you cant afford nine-dollar tomatoes? That was the question award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan couldnt escape as she watched the debate about Americas meals unfold, one that urges us to pay foods true cost—which is to say, pay... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover 
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver Staff Pick After 25 years in the Arizona desert, in 2004, Kentucky-bred Barbara Kingsolver moved back to the Appalachians, to a Virginia farm just hours from her childhood home. Family called. "Returning," she explains in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, "would allow my... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Sharing the Harvest: A Citizen's Guide to Community Supported Agriculture, Revised and Expanded by Elizabeth Henderson and Robyn Van En and Joan Dye Gussow Publisher Comments In Sharing the Harvest, the authors lay out the basic tenets of CSA, provide useful information for both farmers and consumers on starting and running a successful community farm project, and describe hundreds of useful strategies that have worked (or... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Food Fight: The Citizen's Guide to the Next Food and Farm Bill by Daniel Imhoff Synopsis Food Patriotism Delving into the Farm Bill can seem like visiting another country (if not another planet), with its foreign language and sometimes twisted logic. Specialty crops, for example, are what the USDA calls fruits, vegetables, and nuts—the... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan Publisher Comments What to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times. "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, the well-considered answers he provides to the... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution by Jennifer Cockrall-king PW Review "With this incisive study of the urban farming movement, Canadian food writer Cockrall-King identifies weak links in complex global food chains supplying supersized retailers (e.g., narrowing biodiversity, just-in-time delivery, 'global summertime... (read more) Your price: $21.00 New - Trade Paper
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Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe and Anna Blythe Lappe Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 415-419) and index.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply by Vandana Shiva Publisher Comments Contents Introduction Chapter 1 The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply Chapter 2 Soy Imperialism and the Destruction of Local Food Cultures Chapter 3 The Stolen Harvest Under the Sea Chapter 4 Mad Cows and Sacred Cows Chapter 5 The Stolen Harvest of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes by Mark Bittman Publisher Comments From the award-winning champion of culinary simplicity who gave us the bestselling How to Cook Everything and How to Cook Everything Vegetarian comes Food Matters, a plan for responsible eating that's as good for the planet as it is for your weight and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Bringing It To the Table: on Farming and Food (09 Edition) by Wendell Berry Staff Pick One of the most prolific and celebrated authors on the subjects of sustainable agriculture and mindful eating, Wendell Berry has influenced the likes of Wes Jackson, Barbara Kingsolver, Gene Logsdon, Barry Lopez, and Michael Pollan, to name a few. Fans... (read more) List Price $14.95 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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An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies by Tyler Cowen Publisher Comments One of the most influential economists of the decade-and the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Stagnation-boldly argues that just about everything you've heard about food is wrong. Food snobbery is killing entrepreneurship and innovation... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All by Oran Hesterman Publisher Comments A host of books and films in recent years have documented the dangers of our current food system, from chemical runoff to soaring rates of diet-related illness to inhumane treatment of workers and animals. But advice on what to do about it largely begins... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Consulting the Genius of the Place: An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture by Wes Jackson Synopsis Locavore leaders such as Alice Waters, Michael Pollan, and Barbara Kingsolver all speak of the need for sweeping changes in how we get our food. A longtime leader of this movement is Wes Jackson, who for decades has taken it upon himself to speak for the... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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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) List Price $35.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit by Barry Estabrook Publisher Comments 2012 IACP Award Winner in the Food Matters category Supermarket produce sections bulging with a year-round supply of perfectly round, bright red-orange tomatoes have become all but a national birthright. But in Tomatoland, which is based on his James... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
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Food Fray: Inside the Controversy Over Genetically Modified Food by Lisa H. Weasel Publisher Comments It started with little fanfare over a decade ago, when genetically modified foods quietly appeared on American grocery shelves. But in the years since, GM foods have sparked a global controversy and sounded alarms here at home, triggered by a multitude... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $9.95 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 Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability by Lierre Keith Publisher Comments Literary Nonfiction. Environment. Politics. We've been told that a vegetarian diet can feed the hungry, honor the animals, and save the planet. Lierre Keith believed in that plant-based diet and spent twenty years as a vegan. But in THE VEGETARIAN MYTH... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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