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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as food-system)
avg rating 4.19 — 212,113 ratings — published 2006
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as food-system)
avg rating 4.07 — 120,558 ratings — published 2008
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as food-system)
avg rating 4.05 — 114,253 ratings — published 2007
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as food-system)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,424 ratings — published 2001
Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as food-system)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,599 ratings — published 2007
Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as food-system)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,875 ratings — published
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as food-system)
avg rating 4.02 — 33,424 ratings — published 2013
Eating Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as food-system)
avg rating 4.21 — 81,496 ratings — published 2009
Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, And Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as food-system)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,537 ratings — published 1997
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as food-system)
avg rating 4.08 — 26,312 ratings — published 2013
The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as food-system)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,759 ratings — published 2009
Food Fight: The Inside Story of The Food Industry, America's Obesity Crisis, and What We Can Do About It (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as food-system)
avg rating 3.47 — 234 ratings — published 2003
Holy Cows & Hog Heaven: The Food Buyer's Guide to Farm Friendly Food (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as food-system)
avg rating 4.02 — 350 ratings — published 2005
Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability (Food, Health, and the Environment)
by (shelved 2 times as food-system)
avg rating 4.18 — 178 ratings — published 2011
Food Rebellions!: Forging Food Sovereignty to Solve the Global Food Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as food-system)
avg rating 3.57 — 54 ratings — published 2009
Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as food-system)
avg rating 3.71 — 579 ratings — published 2008
Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as food-system)
avg rating 3.93 — 657 ratings — published 2002
Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America (California Studies in Food and Culture, 8)
by (shelved 2 times as food-system)
avg rating 3.79 — 194 ratings — published 1988
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as food-system)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,431 ratings — published 2009
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as food-system)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,936 ratings — published 2001
Living the Good Life: How to Live Sanely and Simply in a Troubled World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 4.11 — 417 ratings — published 1954
Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,390 ratings — published 2006
What to Eat (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 4.03 — 5,986 ratings — published 2006
Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present, and Future of the Self-Provisioning City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 4.25 — 130 ratings — published
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 4.40 — 2,308 ratings — published 1939
What to Eat Now: The Indispensable Guide to Good Food, How to Find It, and Why It Matters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 4.06 — 319 ratings — published
Reaping What She Sows: How Women Are Rebuilding Our Broken Food System (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 4.41 — 32 ratings — published
Gut Check: Unleash the Power of Your Microbiome to Reverse Disease and Transform Your Mental, Physical, and Emotional Health (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 3.50 — 1,286 ratings — published
VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 to Lose Weight and Restore Your Health . . . for Good (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 3.71 — 2,942 ratings — published 2013
Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal: A Food Science Nutrition History Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,977 ratings — published 2021
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 4.22 — 7,701 ratings — published 2024
The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 4.01 — 9,448 ratings — published 2015
Vitamania: Our Obsessive Quest For Nutritional Perfection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,182 ratings — published 2015
Ultra-Processed People: Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 4.37 — 49,744 ratings — published 2023
Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us about Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 4.29 — 189 ratings — published
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,181 ratings — published 2022
Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,790 ratings — published 2021
Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 3.79 — 890 ratings — published 2004
Raw: a Novel (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 2.83 — 6 ratings — published 2010
Genetic Engineering in Agriculture: The Myths, Environmental Risks, and Alternatives (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 3.56 — 18 ratings — published 2001
Hungry Beautiful Animals: The Joyful Case for Going Vegan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 3.80 — 86 ratings — published
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 3.92 — 17,677 ratings — published 2024
Farmed Out: Agricultural Lobbying in a Polarized Congress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Endangered Eating: America's Vanishing Foods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 4.02 — 509 ratings — published 2023
Unpacking School Lunch: Understanding the Hidden Politics of School Food (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published
Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,764 ratings — published 2021
The Behavioral Code: The Hidden Ways the Law Makes Us Better . . . or Worse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 3.97 — 174 ratings — published 2021
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 3.94 — 15,923 ratings — published 2020
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 4.22 — 641,569 ratings — published 2021
Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 3.78 — 78 ratings — published
“Food is packed with meaning, as well as vitamins, carbohydrates and protein. It satisfies needs beyond those of the body and the pocketbook. Food is a medium to build families, religious communities, ethnic boundaries and a consciousness of history.”
― Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists
― Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists
“The industrial food complex polluted our food system
to please the addicted palettes they created.”
― Conscious Cures: Soulutions to 21st Century Pandemics
to please the addicted palettes they created.”
― Conscious Cures: Soulutions to 21st Century Pandemics