From the category archives:

Real Food Books

And the winner is…

June 11, 2009 · 1 comment

Mark Menagh! Mark won a copy of In Defense of Food, autographed by the author Michael Pollan. He was chosen at random from people who commented on this post, suggesting books that had changed their relationship with food. Mark recommended Fast Food Nation. Other readers had great suggestions including:

Living in the Environment: Principles, Connections, and [...]

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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver has been personally recommended to me several times, and appears to be the food book I see most referenced behind Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food and/or The Omnivore’s Dilemma (in fact Pollan’s and Kingsolver’s books are the first and third most popular food [...]

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Your first source for information, as I’ve mentioned before: ask your friends and neighbors!
But, if you are like me, and want to have something to reference day or night, Reluctant Eater reader Ginger K. has a recommendation Rodale’s Vegetable Garden Problem Solver:

I can’t tell you how good it is just yet (my copy is on [...]

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Aside from the two Michael Pollan books, In Defense of Food & The Omnivores Dilemma, which got me started on this new way of eating, readers have recommended a few other great looking books. I have not yet had the chance to read any of them, but several have been suggested more than once!

The China [...]

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A reader of mine suggested that I would love this book. Apparently it goes into a lot of the actual science behind what is suggested in The Omnivore’s Dilemma. As soon as I have given it a read, you can be sure that I’ll be throwing around statistics, figures, and new ideas.
Interestingly, after recommending The [...]

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