Agriculture & Food
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The Truth about Baked Beans: An Edible History of New England
$34.00 Add to cartForages through New England’s most famous foods for the truth behind the region’s culinary myths
Meg Muckenhoupt begins with a simple question: When did Bostonians start making Boston Baked Beans? Sto- Series: Washington Mews Books
- Author: Muckenhoupt, Meg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1479882763
- Language: English
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Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third Worl
$19.95 Read moreThis global environmental and political history “will redefine the way we think about the European colonial project” (Observer).
” . . . sets the triumph of the late 19th-century Western imperialism… [more below]- Series: Essential Mike Davis
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1784786624
- Language: English
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Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All
$15.99 Add to cartA host of books and films in recent years have documented the dangers of our current food system, from chemical runoff to soaring rates of diet-related illness to inhumane treatment of workers and ani… [more below]
- Author: Hesterman, Oran B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 05 2012
- ISBN10: 1610391020
- Language: English
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Quality Agriculture: Conversations about Regenerative Agronomy with Innovative Scientists and Growers
$24.99 Add to cartAn increasing number of farmers and scientists believe the foundational ideas of mainstream agronomy are incomplete and unsound. Conventional crop production ignores biology in favor of chemical inter… [more below]
- Author: Kempf, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: June 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1734844507
- Language: English
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Butter: A Rich History
$16.99 Add to cart“Edifying from every point of view–historical, cultural, and culinary.” –David Tanis, author of A Platter of Figs and Other Recipes
It’s a culinary catalyst, an agent of change, a gastronomic rock s- Author: Khosrova, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1616207396
- Language: English
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Native Foods: Agriculture, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism in American History
$27.95 Add to cartIn Native Foods: Agriculture, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism in American History, Michael D. Wise confronts four common myths about Indigenous food history: that most Native communities did not … [more below]
- Series: Food and Foodways
- Author: Wise, Michael D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: June 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1682262383
- Language: English
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Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry
$32.00 Add to cartBest Books of 2024: “Frerick’s prose throughout is both direct and masterfully controlled, with every point supported by extensive references and notes. This is no alarmist screed but rather a careful… [more below]
- Author: Frerick, Austin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1642832693
- Language: English
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Serendipity: A History of Accidental Culinary Discoveries
$24.99 Add to cartEataly founder Oscar Farinetti reveals the accidental, serendipitous discoveries that gave birth to some of the world’s most well-known gastronomic delights.
Did you know that your morning coffee could… [more below]
- Author: Farinetti, Oscar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1954641184
- Language: English
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Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food
$18.95 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Summer Reading Selection
“Delves into not only what we eat around the world, but what we once ate and what we have lost since then.”–The New York Times Book Review
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- Author: La Cerva, Gina Rae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1771649151
- Language: English
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Good Husbandry: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the beloved bestseller The Dirty Life, this “superb memoir chronicles the evolution of a farm, marriage, family, and her own personal identity with humor, insight, and candor” (Publ… [more below]
- Author: Kimball, Kristin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1501111655
- Language: English
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Red, White, & Black Make Blue: Indigo in the Fabric of Colonial South Carolina Life
$27.95 Add to cartLike cotton, indigo has defied its humble origins. Left alone it might have been a regional plant with minimal reach, a localized way of dyeing textiles, paper, and other goods with a bit of blue. But
- Author: Feeser, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0820345539
- Language: English
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Change Comes to Dinner
$22.00 Add to cartA fascinating exploration of America’s food innovators, that gives us hopeful alternatives to the industrial food system described in works like Michael Pollan’s bestselling Omnivore’s Dilemma
Change- Author: Gustafson, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 08 2012
- ISBN10: 0312577370
- Language: English
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Bet the Farm: The Dollars and Sense of Growing Food in America
$30.00 Read more“Eloquent and detailed…precise and well-thought-out…Read her book — and listen.” — Jane Smiley, The Washington Post.
Beth Hoffman was living the good life: she had a successful career as a jour- Author: Hoffman, Beth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 164283159X
- Language: English
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Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us about Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom
$27.95 Add to cart“Nourishment will change the way you eat and the way you think.”–Mark Schatzker, author of The Dorito Effect
“[Provenza is] a wise observer of the land and the animals [and] becomes transformed to le
- Author: Provenza, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 26 2018
- ISBN10: 1603588027
- Language: English
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Temple Grandin’s Guide to Working with Farm Animals: Safe, Humane Livestock Handling Practices for the Small Farm
$24.99 Read moreAward-winning author Temple Grandin is famous for her groundbreaking approach to decoding animal behavior. Now she extends her expert guidance to small-scale farming operations. Grandin’s fascinating … [more below]
- Author: Grandin, Temple
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1612127444
- Language: English
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Po’boy
$22.95 Add to cartPo’Boy tells the story of how a humble sandwich became a symbol of New Orleans culture, history, and cuisine. Invented to help feed a crowd of out-of-work individuals in New Orleans’s streetcar indust
- Series: Louisiana True
- Author: Bischoff, Burke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: July 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180475
- Language: English
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Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don’t Know What You’re Eating and What You Can Do about It
$19.99 Add to cart“Olmsted makes you insanely hungry and steaming mad–a must-read for anyone who cares deeply about the safety of our food and the welfare of our planet.” –Steven Raichlen, author of the Barbecue! Bib… [more below]
- Author: Olmsted, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1616207418
- Language: English
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The Orchard: A Memoir
$18.95 Add to cartA stirring memoir of a young, single woman’s laborious struggle to save her family’s New England apple farm from going under during the Great Depression.
The Orchard is an exquisitely beautiful and p- Series: Nonpareil Books #9
- Author: Robertson, Adele Crockett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1567927262
- Language: English
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White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation
$29.95 Read moreThe long and pernicious relationship between fast food restaurants and the African American community
Today, fast food is disproportionately located in Black neighborhoods and marketed to Black Ameri- Author: Kwate, Naa Oyo a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: April 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 1517911095
- Language: English
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Eating Instinct
$21.99 Add to cartAn exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today’s toxic food culture.
Food is supposed to sustain and nourish us. Eating well, any doctor will tell you, is the best- Author: Sole-Smith, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1250234557
- Language: English
