Agriculture & Food
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
$18.00 Add to cart“A charming fish tale and a pretty gift for your favorite seafood cook or fishing monomaniac. But in the last analysis, it’s a bitter ecological fable for our time.” –Los Angeles Times
An unexpected,- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 01, 1998
- ISBN10: 0140275010
- Language: English
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New York’s Family Grocer: The Story of d’Agostino Supermarkets
$34.95 Add to cartFrom pushcart to pantry staple in the city that never sleeps
New York’s Family Grocer tells how a neighborhood name became part of the city’s daily rhythm. Patsy and Nicholas D’Agostino arrived from I- Author: Schmitz, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1531513220
- Language: English
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Vintage Crime: A Short History of Wine Fraud
$19.95 Add to cart“This slim yet insightful and entertaining volume documents the many instances where wine drinkers did not get what they paid for, sometimes with deadly consequences.”–New York Times, Best Wine Book… [more below]
- Author: Gibb, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0520425170
- Language: English
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A Taste of Madagascar: Culinary Riches of the Red Island
$38.00 Add to cartDiscover Madagascar’s hidden food treasures from vanilla to caviar to unique spices–a food explorer’s guide across the Red Island.
What’s hiding in Madagascar’s lush forests, vibrant coasts, and fert- Author: Laroche, Emmanuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 9798895650141
- Language: English
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Living Roots: The Promise of Perennial Foods
$35.00 Add to cartFrom buffalo prairies to urban orchards, an introduction to a diverse movement redefining how we grow, eat, and live with the land
Just four annual crops–corn, wheat, rice, and soybeans–account for- Author: Krug, Aubrey Streit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1642833886
- Language: English
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Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$18.98 Add to cartAn eye-opening examination of food and nutrition that reveals the truth about what we eat and why it matters, while helping readers distinguish between science and disinformation and inspiring eaters … [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
- Author: Newby, P. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0197802826
- Language: English
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Tell Me How You Eat: Food, Power, and the Will to Live
$28.00 Add to cartAn intimate and expansive exploration of how and why we eat, and the relationship between food and empowerment, through the historic feasts and fasts of radicals and tyrants.
Inspired by writer Amber- Author: Husain, Amber
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1668060310
- Language: English
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Food & Freedom: How the Slow Food Movement Is Changing the World Through Gastronomy
$24.95 Read moreInspiring the global fight to revolutionize the way food is grown, distributed, and eaten. In the almost thirty years since Carlo Petrini began the Slow Food organization, he has been constant… [more below]
- Author: Petrini, Carlo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0847846857
- Language: English
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Feed the People!: Why Industrial Food Is Good and How to Make It Even Better
$30.00 Add to cartWhy Wendell Berry, Michael Pollan, and other slow-food-loving locavores are wrong about food in America–and why Waffle House can save us all.
The food industry is a major driver of climate change, p- Author: Dutkiewicz, Jan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1541603788
- Language: English
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An Illustrated Catalog of American Mushrooms
$60.00 Add to cartA fascinating exploration of the USDA’s national fungus collection, offering readers an intimate portrait of America’s elusive fungi species.
The United States Department of Agriculture’s National Fu- Author: Us Department of Agriculture Maurice B W
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1454963557
- Language: English
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An Illustrated Catalog of American Fruits & Nuts
$60.00 Add to cartA kaleidoscopic celebration of the USDA’s pomological collection, offering an engaging, biophilic meditation upon the sweetest of the earth’s produce.
The United States Department of Agriculture Pomo- Author: Us Department of Agriculture Pomological
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1454963530
- Language: English
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Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company
$19.00 Add to cartWinner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, and a New Yorker best book of 2024, a “startling glimpse into the meatpacking industry’s abuse of undocumented and incarcerated workers” (The New… [more below]
- Author: Driver, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 166807883X
- Language: English
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We Can Do Better: Collected Writings on Land, Conservation, and Public Policy by Paul Johnson
$25.00 Add to cart- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: October 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1948509652
- Language: English
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Heaven on the Half Shell: The Story of the Oyster in the Pacific Northwest
$29.95 Read moreHeaven on the Half Shell offers a thoroughly researched and richly illustrated history of the Pacific Northwest’s beloved bivalve, the oyster. Starting with the earliest evidence of sea gardens and c
- Author: Gordon, David George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0295750782
- Language: English
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The Painful Truth about Hunger in America: Why We Must Unlearn Everything We Think We Know–And Start Again
$34.95 Add to cartA radical and urgent new approach to how we can solve the problems of hunger and poverty in the US.
Most people think hunger has to do with food: researchers, policymakers, and advocates focus on prom- Series: Food, Health, and the Environment
- Author: Chilton, Mariana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0262048302
- Language: English
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Food for Life: The New Science of Eating Well, by the #1 Bestselling Author of Spoon-Fed
$24.99 Read moreA comprehensive guide to the new science of nutrition, drawing on Tim Spector’s cutting-edge research
Food is our greatest ally for good health, but the question of what to eat in the age of ultra-p… [more below]- Author: Spector, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1529919665
- Language: English
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Farm-Raised Kids: Parenting Strategies for Balancing Family Life with Running a Small Farm or Homestead
$24.99 Add to cartLearn to raise tiny agriculturists with this insightful guide full of parenting advice and strategies for engaging kids in farm life while you’re running your own homestead.
In this first-ever book o- Author: Kulla, Katie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1635866715
- Language: English
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Land Rich, Cash Poor: My Family’s Hope and the Untold History of the Disappearing American Farmer
$32.99 Add to cartThe hidden history of an economic and cultural catastrophe that is threatening our very food supply–the disappearance of the American farmer.
Taking on this story of heart and hardship, award-winnin- Author: Reisinger, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1510779981
- Language: English
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Who Really Feeds the World?: The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology
$14.95 Add to cartDebunking the notion that our current food crisis must be addressed through industrial agriculture and genetic modification, author and activist Vandana Shiva argues that those forces are in fact the … [more below]
- Author: Shiva, Vandana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 1623170621
- Language: English
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Letter to a Young Farmer: How to Live Richly Without Wealth on the New Garden Farm
$25.00 Read moreFor more than four decades, the self-described “contrary farmer” and writer Gene Logsdon has commented on the state of American agriculture. In Letter to a Young Farmer, his final book of essays, Log
- Author: Logsdon, Gene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 05 2018
- ISBN10: 160358806X
- Language: English
