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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 ... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper 
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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) Your price: $14.95 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) Your price: $21.95 New - Hardcover
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Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods by Sandor Ellix Katz Publisher Comments For thousands of years humans have enjoyed the taste and nutrition of fermented foods and drinks. We rely on the transformative, almost magical power of fermentation to preserve and improve all sorts of food, making them tastier, more digestible, and... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Trade Paper
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Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food by Wendell Berry Publisher Comments Only a farmer could delve so deeply into the origins of food, and only a writer of Wendell Berry's caliber could convey it with such conviction and eloquence. Long before organic produce was available at your local supermarket, Berry was farming with the... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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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 (edt) 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 movieits an important movie.”... (read more) Your price: $14.95 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: $20.00 Sale - 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 $15.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver and Camille Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp 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 $26.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World by Paul Hawken Staff Pick Feeling crushed beneath the weight of ominous news, borderline-apocalyptic statistics, and global warming alerts that offer no recourse but panic? Paul Hawken's Blessed Unrest is the book you've been waiting for. Here is a call to arms with concrete... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America's Emerging Battle Over Food Rights by David Gumpert Publisher Comments Beginning in 2006, the agriculture departments of several large states-with backing from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration-launched a major crackdown on small dairies producing raw milk. Replete with undercover agents, sting operations, surprise... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Ga by William Alexander Publisher Comments Bill Alexander had no idea that his simple dream of having a vegetable garden and small orchard in his backyard would lead him into life-and-death battles with groundhogs, webworms, weeds, and weather; midnight expeditions in the dead of winter to dig up... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet by Alisa Smith Publisher Comments The remarkable, amusing and inspiring adventures of a Canadian couple who make a year-long attempt to eat foods grown and produced within a 100-mile radius of their apartment. When Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon learned that the average ingredient in a... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Viking in the Wheat Field: A Scientist's Struggle to Preserve the World's Harvest by Susan Dworkin Publisher Comments The gripping story of how Bent Skovmand and others preserved the world's wheat harvest. In 1999, a terrifying new form of stem rust--spotted in Uganda and dubbed UG99--quickly turned robust golden fields into dark, tangled ruins. For decades plant... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $21.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism by Marion Nestle Publisher Comments In an informed, even-handed and accessible way, the author demonstrates how powerful food industries oppose regulations, deny accountability, and blame consumers when something goes wrong, and how century-old laws for ensuring food safety no longer... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Stuffed and Starved: the Hidden Battle for the World Food System (08 Edition) by Raj Patel Publisher Comments How can starving people also be obese? Why does everything have soy in it? How do petrochemicals and biofuels control the price of food? It's a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before (800 million) while... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly by James E. McWilliams Publisher Comments We suffer today from food anxiety, bombarded as we are with confusing messages about how to eat an ethical diet. Should we eat locally? Is organic really better for the environment? Can genetically modified foods be good for you? JUST FOOD does for fresh... (read more) Your price: $25.99 New - Hardcover
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Hooked: Pirates, Poaching, and the Perfect Fish by G Bruce Knecht Publisher Comments This modern pirate yarn has all the makings of a great true adventure tale and is also an exploration of the ways our culinary tastes have all manner of unintended consequences for the world around us. Hooked is a story about the poaching of the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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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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Harvest for Hope : Guide To Mindful Eating (05 Edition) by Jane Goodall Publisher Comments The renowned scientist who fundamentally changed the way we view primates and our relationship with the animal kingdom now turns her attention to an incredibly important and deeply personal issue-taking a stand for a more sustainable world. In this... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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