Author and former chef Georgia Pellegrini explores the practice of 16 food artisans who are working to preserve and strengthen the culinary traditions that tie us to our food and transform the relationship we have with what’s on our plates. With moving stories, colorful anecdotes, and recipes, the book celebrates the revival of the artisanal food movement.
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The family’s year long experience leads them through a season of planting, pulling weeds, expanding their kitchen skills, harvesting their own animals, joining the effort to save heritage crops from extinction, and learning the time-honored rural art of unloading excess zucchini.
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses tells the story of humanity from the Stone Age to the 21st century through the lens of beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and cola.
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In Cooked, Michael Pollan discovers the enduring power of the four classical elements—fire, water, air, and earth— to transform the stuff of nature into delicious things to eat and drink.
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Tomorrow’s Table argues that a judicious blend of genetic engineering and organic farming is key to helping feed the world’s growing population in an ecologically balanced manner.
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In Farmacology, practicing family physician and renowned nutrition explorer Daphne Miller brings us beyond the simple concept of “food as medicine” and introduces us to the critical idea that it’s the farm where that food is grown that offers us the real medicine.
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This is the story about Seed Savers Exchange that began humbly as a simple exchange of seeds among passionate gardeners and how the membership has grown from a small circle of people to more than thirteen thousand.
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