Oct 15 – The Blue Plate is the perfect dinner companion for food lovers who also care about the planet. Ecologist Mark Easter offers a detailed picture of the impact the foods you love have on the earth.
Food Culture
A Good Drink: In Pursuit of Sustainable Spirits – Feb 11
Feb 11 – In A Good Drink, Farrell goes in search of the bars, distillers, and farmers who are driving a transformation to sustainable spirits.
The Slow Food Story – Oct 11
Oct 11 – The Slow Food Story is an extensive critique of the fast-moving, work-obsessed contemporary capitalist culture.
Your Table Is Ready – Nov 8
Nov 8 – Besides dropping us back into a vanished time, Your Table Is Ready takes us places we’d never be able to get into on our own.
Medium Raw – Mar 13
Mar 13 – Medium Raw explores the restaurant business, taking the reader back and forth—from the author’s bad old days—to the present.
The Secret Life of Groceries – Apr 10
Apr 10 – The Secret Life of Groceries is an extraordinary investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store.
Soul Food – Dec 14
Dec 14 – In Soul Food, an insightful and eclectic history, Adrian Miller delves into the influences, ingredients, and innovations that make up the soul food tradition.
Braiding Sweetgrass – Apr 12
Apr 12 – In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer takes us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise”.
Grilled: Turning Adversaries Into Allies to Change the Chicken Industry – Mar 3
Mar – Grilled is the story of Leah Garcés’s fight for better treatment of farmed animals, as she works with farmers, suppliers and restaurant chains to end factory farming for good.
The Perfect Meal – Oct 6
Oct 6 – The Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France is the perfect read for foodies and Francophiles, cooks and gastronomists, and fans of food culture.
The Fate of Food – Oct 8
Oct 8 – Fate of Food is a fascinating story of the sustainable food revolution. An environmental journalist and professor asks the question: Is the future of food looking bleak—or better than ever?
Food and Freedom – Jan 10
Food and Freedom is an uplifting and humanistic message is straightforward: if people can feed themselves, they can be free.
Life from Scratch – Dec 12
Heartfelt and honest, LIFE FROM SCRATCH is a story of self-acceptance and discovery that shows the power of food to bond, to empower and to heal, and celebrates the simple truth that happiness is created from within.
The Third Plate – Oct 11
In The Third Plate Dan Barber draws on the wisdom and experience of chefs, farmers and seed breeders around the world and proposes a new definition for ethical and delicious eating.
Language of Food – Dec 9
In The Language of Food, Stanford University professor and MacArthur Fellow Dan Jurafsky peels away the mysteries from the foods we think we know and dives into the hidden history of food.