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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: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Grow Cook Eat: A Food Lover's Guide to Vegetable Gardening, Including 50 Recipes, Plus Harvesting and Storage Tips by Willi Galloway and Jim Henkens Publisher Comments From sinking a seed into the soil through to sitting down to enjoy a meal made with vegetables and fruits harvested right outside your back door, this gorgeous kitchen gardening book is filled with practical, useful information for both novices and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $20.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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Diet for a Dead Planet: How the Food Industry Is Killing Us by Christopher Cook Publisher Comments This absorbing study looks at the dangers of American food production, including exposure of food to food-borne pathogens, pesticides, and much more.... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - 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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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan Publisher Comments Michael Pollan's lastbook , The Omnivore's Dilemma, launched a national conversation about the American way of eating; now In Defense of Food shows us how to change it, one meal at a time. Pollan proposes a new answer to the question of what we should... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Wild Table: Seasonal Foraged Food and Recipes by Connie Green and Sarah Scott Publisher Comments A captivating cookbook by a renowned forager of wild edibles — with more than one hundred sumptuous recipes and full-color photographs. In the last decade, the celebration of organic foods, farmer's markets, and artisanal producers has dovetailed... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $27.50 Used - Hardcover
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Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe Publisher Comments Here again is the extraordinary bestselling book that taught America the social and personal significance of a new way of eating — one that remains a complete guide for eating well in the new millennium. Featuring: simple rules for a healthy diet; a... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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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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The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just 1/4 Acre! by Carleen Madigan Publisher Comments Put your backyard to work! Enjoy fresher, organic, better-tasting food all the time. The solution is as close as your own backyard. Grow the vegetables and fruits your family loves; keep bees; raise chickens, goats, or even a cow. The Backyard... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - 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 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: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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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The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times by Carol Deppe Publisher Comments Winner of About.com's Reader's Choice Award: Best Garden Book Since 2010Selected by Amazon.com as one of the Top 10 Books of 2010 in the Home and Gardening Category!CREATIVE, PRODUCTIVE GARDENING FOR GOOD TIMES AND BAD.In an age of erratic weather and... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter (06 Edition) by Peter Singer Publisher Comments Peter Singer, the groundbreaking ethicist whom The New Yorker calls the most influential philosopher alive teams up again with Jim Mason, his coauthor on the acclaimed Animal Factories, to set their critical sights on the food we buy and eat: where it... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Farmer's Cookbook: A Back to Basics Guide to Making Cheese, Curing Meat, Preserving Produce, Baking Bread, Fermenting, and More (Back to Basics Guides) by Marie W. Lawrence Publisher Comments More and more cooks are turning to their own gardens or to local farmers' markets to find inspiration for their meals. Eating fresh, local produce is a hot trend, but lifelong Vermonter Marie Lawrence has been cooking with produce from her gardens... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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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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Girl Hunter: Revolutionizing the Way We Eat, One Hunt at a Time by Georgia Pellegrini Publisher Comments What happens when a classically-trained New York chef and fearless omnivore heads out of the city and into the wild to track down the ingredients for her meals? After abandoning Wall Street to embrace her lifelong love of cooking, Georgia Pellegrini... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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Cooking in the Moment: A Year of Seasonal Recipes by Andrea Reusing Staff Pick Cooking in the Moment is a vibrant seasonal recipe collection paired with lush photos and insightful commentary. James Beard Award nominee Andrea Reusing hit this one out of the park; it's a must have for every farmers market fanatic.... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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Williams-Sonoma Cooking from the Farmers' Market by Tasha De Serio Publisher Comments From small towns to big cities, people all over the world love shopping at the farmers’ market. The first tender asparagus of spring, the juicy peaches of summer, the sweet butternut squash of autumn, bright winter citrus fruits: local farmstands... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Hardcover
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