Food For Thought

Food for thoughtA list of can’t-put-down, provocative reads to challenge and nourish your starving brain with “food for thought.”

From the farmers’ bookshelves:

  • “The Unsettling of America”
    by Wendell Berry
  • “Sharing the Harvest: A Citizen’s Guide to Community Supported Agriculture”
    by E. Henderson
  • “Coming Home to Eat”
    by Gary Paul Nabhan
  • “In Defense of Food”
    by Michael Pollan
  • “Confronting Consumption”
    edited by Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, and Ken Conca
  • “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the American Meal”
    by Eric Schlosser
  • “Eating in the Dark: America’s Experiment with Genetically Engineered Food”
    by Kathleen Hart
  • “Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture”
    by Jeremy Rifkin
  • “Slaughterhouse Blues”
    by Donald Stull and Michael Broadway
  • “The Omnivore’s Dilemma”
    by Michael Pollan
  • “The Fatal Harvest Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture”
    edited by Andrew Kimbrell
  • “Free Lunch”
    by David Cay Johnston
  • “The Way into Tikkun Olam: Repairing the World”
    by Elliot N. Dorff
  • “Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked America”
    by Richard Manning
  • “The Gift of Good Land”
    by Wendell Berry
  • “The Last Harvest”
    by Paul Raeburn
  • “What Are People For?”
    by Wendell Berry
  • “Stuffed and Starved”
  • by Raj Patel
  • “The Art of the Commonplace”
    by Wendell Berry
  • “Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating”
    by Jane Goodall
  • “Outgrowing the Earth”
    by Lester R. Brown
  • “Sustainable Capitalism”
    by John Ikerd
  • “Tomatoland”
    by Barry Estabrook
  • “Early Sprouts: Cultivating Healthy Food Choices in Young Children”
    by Kalich, Bauer, and McPartlin
  • “Roots, Shoots, Buckets and Boots: Gardening Together with Children”
    by Sharon Lovejoy
  • “One Seed to Another:  The New Small Farming”
    by Paul Hunter

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