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Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (24 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Language
English
Description
Examines types of foods from ancient times to today, describing how they were prepared and used. Features color photographs, fact boxes, a glossary, a timeline, a recipe, and further resources.
Author
Publisher
Permuted Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xiv, 318 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In an effort to help us reconnect with the food that sustains our lives, David Moscow has spent four years going around the world, meeting with rock-star chefs, and sourcing ingredients within localfood ecosystems--experiences taking place in over twenty countries that include milking a water buffalo to make mozzarella for pizza in Italy; harvesting oysters in Long Island Sound and honey from wild bees in Kenya; and making patis in the Philippines,...
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this fascinating look at the race to secure the global food supply, environmental journalist and professor Amanda Little tells the defining story of the sustainable food revolution as she weaves together stories from the world's most creative and controversial innovators on the front lines of food science, agriculture, and climate change" --
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr. 32 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Surly Squirrel and the gang are back. They are once again in Oakton where the evil mayor has decided to bulldoze Liberty Park and build a dangerous amusement park in its place. Surly and his ragtag group of animal friends band together to save their home, defeat the mayor, and take back the park.
Author
Publisher
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore's Dilemma, an extraordinary investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store. What does it take to run the American supermarket? How do products get to shelves? Who sets the price? And who suffers the consequences of increased convenience end efficiency? In this alarming exposé, author Benjamin Lorr pulls back the curtain on this highly secretive industry. Combining...
8) The nut job
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follow the travails of Surly, a mischievous squirrel, and his rat friend Buddy, who plan a nut store heist of outrageous proportions and unwittingly find themselves embroiled in a much more complicated and hilarious adventure.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"About a Chinese American chef who, lured to a decadent, enigmatic colony of the superrich in a near future in which food is disappearing, discovers the meaning of pleasure and the ethics of who gets to enjoy it, altering her life and, indirectly, the world"--
A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world's troubles....
12) Food fix: how to save our health, our economy, our communities, and our planet-- one bite at a time
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Food is our most powerful tool to reverse the global epidemic of chronic disease, heal the environment, reform politics, and revive economies. What we eat has tremendous implications not just for our waistlines, but also for the planet, society, and the global economy. What we do to our bodies, we do to the planet; and what we do to the planet, we do to our bodies. In Food Fix, #1 bestselling author Mark Hyman explains how our food and agriculture...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xvi, 214 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma and Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals brought widespread attention to the disturbing realities of factory farming. The End of Animal Farming pushes this conversation forward by outlining a strategic roadmap to a humane, ethical, and efficient food system in which slaughterhouses are obsolete--where the tastes of even the most die-hard meat eater are satisfied by innovative food technologies like cultured...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 301 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"What we eat matters--to us, and to the planet. Cool food is a game-changing new food category and way of thinking that can help fix the climate. This...book will show you how to make simple choices, starting today--in the supermarket, in your kitchen, and in the world--to reduce your environmental impact. Hundreds of cool foods exist, but until now have gone largely uncelebrated for their climate-positive powers. Some of these foods may already be...
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Lexile measure
1450L
Physical Desc
xiv, 175 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is the first study of food in classical antiquity that treats it as both a biological and a cultural phenomenon. The variables of food quantity, quality and availability, and the impact of disease, are evaluated and a judgement reached which inclines to pessimism. Food is also a symbol, evoking other basic human needs and desires, especially sex, and performing social and cultural roles which can be either integrative or divisive. The book explores...