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Category Archives: books
Reading Lists
I’m still compiling my own reading list page for my resources, but in the mean time here’s a couple of lists of slow food and sustainable food reading materials. From the Slow Food Blog, a list of articles, books, films, and web sites. At Audubon Magazine, prominent names in the sustainable food field give their [...]
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The Kitchen Gardener’s Handbook
I’m always on the lookout for a good gardening book, and this one I found on the library’s new nonfiction shelf is excellent for a number of reasons. The Kitchen Gardener’s Handbook by Jennifer R. Bartley includes, as indicated on the cover, “design plans, seasonal checklists, fresh recipes, plant profiles and growing tips, [and] flowers [...]
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The Little House Cookbook
About two years ago we were reading the Little House on the Prairie books as bedtime stories for our daughter, as detailed in this post. I noted at the time how much the books center around food, food production, and eating. It just so happens while browsing at the library last week I ran across [...]
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Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Young Readers Edition
Did you know that a Young Readers Edition of The Omnivore’s Dilemma was released last fall? It’s aimed at grades seven and up, and is a shortened version of the original. A 13 year old reviews it at Civil Eats. I recently bought a copy for my niece.
Raj Patel: The Value of Nothing
Raj Patel, a “writer, activist, and academic,” is currently getting press for his new book, The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy. Patel’s previous book was Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System. You can read an interview with him on Civil Eats. Paula Crossfield writes [...]
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Daniel Goleman on Bill Moyers Journal
At the Bill Moyers Journal site you can watch video or read a transcript of his interview with Daniel Goleman, psychologist, science journalist, and best-selling author. They discuss his 2009 book Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything. Also mentioned, the Good Guide web site and how it [...]
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How Food Shapes Our Cities
Thanks to my brother-in-law for this link to video of architect and author Carolyn Steel (Hungry City) speaking at the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference, July 2009. In this 18-minute talk she gives an overview of the historical relationship between cities and agriculture and the changes technology has wrought. She says, “We live in a [...]
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Sustainable Seafood?
All You Can Eat? A Journey Through a Seafood Fantasy is an excellent article by Jim Carrier in the March/April issue of Orion. This revealing look at the history and current state of the shrimping industry features snippets of conversations with Leslie Hartman, Alabama shrimp biologist working in Mobile Bay, and Mike and Joe Skinner, [...]
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A Slow Food Reading List
I always intend to recommend more books, and at the Slow Food USA Blog there’s a post on “What [books] inspired you to get involved in sustainable food? What inspires you still?”:http://www.slowfoodusa.org/index.php/slow_food/blog_post/a_slow_food_reading_list/#When:18:31:05Z
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Sustainable Eating Reading List