The Dorito Effect By Mark Schatzker
The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor By Mark Schatzker Simon & Schuster Paperbacks We have heard of the “placebo effect,” the “nocebo effect,” […]
Food Politics & Economics
The End of Scarcity By Kristen Ragusin
The End of Scarcity: The Dawn of the New Abundant World By Kristen Ragusin Indigo Book Press Money makes the world go around. Or does it? If it […]
Unsettled By Dr. Steven E. Koonin
Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters By Dr. Steven E. Koonin BenBella Books, Inc. Climate science is one of those fields […]
Raw Milk and the Search for Human Kindness By Michael Schmidt
Raw Milk and the Search for Human Kindness: Overcoming Fear and Complacency By Michael Schmidt with Beverley Viljakainen Glencolton Farm Available from: form.jotform.com/201585414305247 It was a dark, cold […]
Sacred Cow by Diana Rodgers, RD and Robb Wolf
Sacred Cow: The Case for (Better) Meat: Why Well-Raised Meat Is Good for You and Good for the Planet By Diana Rodgers, RD and Robb Wolf BenBella Books, […]
Hands Off My Food! by Dr. Sina McCullough
Hands Off My Food! How Government and Industry Have Corrupted Our Food and Easy Ways to Fight Back By Dr. Sina McCullough Watchdog Works Dr. McCullough’s story, told […]
The Poison Squad by Deborah Blum
The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century By Deborah Blum Penguin Books This is first and foremost a […]
Ending the War on Artisan Cheese By Catherine Donnelly
Ending the War on Artisan Cheese: The Inside Story of Government Overreach and the Struggle to Save Traditional Raw Milk Cheesemakers By Catherine Donnelly Chelsea Green Publishing When […]
Hippie Food by Jonathan Kauffman
Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed The Way We Eat By Jonathan Kauffman William Morrow and Company When my family take our normal Sunday drive […]
The Dorito Effect By Mark Schatzker
The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth about Food and FlavorBy Mark SchatzkerSimon & Schuster Paperbacks Since the 1960s, Americans have spent a lot of time and money […]
Food Politics By Marion Nestle
Food Politics By Marion Nestle University of California Press; Revised and Expanded Edition (2007) Marion Nestle is one of the most respected and frequently quoted authorities on food […]
Squeezed by Alissa Hamilton
Squeezed: What You Don’t Know about Orange Juice By Alissa Hamilton Yale University Press, 2010 Ever stop to think why we drink orange juice in the mornings? Or […]
Whole Soy Story By Kaayla Daniel
The Whole Soy Story By Kaayla Daniel, PhD, CCN New Trends Publishing 2005 Originally published in 2005, this book is not new, and our readers will know that […]
Extra Virginity By Tom Mueller
Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil By Tom Mueller W.W. Norton and Co., 2011 Even if olive oil is not part of your regular […]
Making Supper Safe by Ben Hewitt
Making Supper Safe: One Man’s Quest to Learn the Truth about Food Safety By Ben Hewitt Rodale Books 2011 Ben Hewitt sets out to examine the public health […]
Empires of Food by Evan D.G. Fraser and Andrew Rimas
Empires of Food: Feast, Famine and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations By Evan D.G. Fraser and Andrew Rimas Free Press, 2010 Empires of Food is a fascinating book that […]
Political Economy of Milk by James Maroney
The Political Economy of Milk By James H. Maroney, Jr. Gala Books, Ltd Several good points are made in this book starting with the prologue, where Mr. Maroney […]
Everlasting Health by Robert Bernardini
Everlasting Health: Humanity’s Guide to Understanding, Avoiding, and Reversing Disease By Robert Bernardini, M.S. PRI Publishing A quick look at the cover tells you there are a lot […]
Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Let me start with congratulations. Your best-seller, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, is a brilliant exposé of modern farming and food production practices; your description of the industrialization of organic […]
Stuffed and Starved By Raj Patel
A Thumbs Up Book Review Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World’s Food System By Raj Patel Melville House Publishing, 2008 Review by John Moody Question: […]
Something from the Oven by Laura Shapiro
A Thumbs Up Book Review Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America By Laura Shapiro Viking, 2004 Reviewed by Katherine Czapp Laura Shapiro’s graceful, well-researched, and […]