Food System Books
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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 — 210,673 ratings — published 2006
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as food-system)
avg rating 4.07 — 119,668 ratings — published 2008
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as food-system)
avg rating 4.05 — 113,334 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 — 59,593 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 — 2,589 ratings — published 2007
Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as food-system)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,777 ratings — published
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as food-system)
avg rating 4.01 — 32,964 ratings — published 2013
Eating Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as food-system)
avg rating 4.21 — 80,821 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 — 1,528 ratings — published 1997
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as food-system)
avg rating 4.08 — 26,007 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 — 1,751 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 — 235 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 4.01 — 346 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 3.56 — 55 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 — 578 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 — 655 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 3.80 — 195 ratings — published 1988
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as food-system)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,384 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 — 206,575 ratings — published 2001
Reaping What She Sows: How Women Are Rebuilding Our Broken Food System (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 4.55 — 20 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 3.49 — 1,189 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 — 3,864 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 4.23 — 7,047 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 — 9,296 ratings — published 2015
Vitamania: Our Obsessive Quest For Nutritional Perfection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,150 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 4.38 — 45,506 ratings — published 2023
Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us about Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 4.28 — 179 ratings — published
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,114 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 4.12 — 3,636 ratings — published 2021
Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 3.79 — 878 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 3.83 — 78 ratings — published
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 3.94 — 15,108 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 4.04 — 471 ratings — published 2023
Unpacking School Lunch: Understanding the Hidden Politics of School Food (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.25 — 4 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 4.31 — 2,653 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 3.95 — 171 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 — 15,284 ratings — published 2020
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 4.23 — 606,712 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
Pressure Cooker: Why Home Cooking Won't Solve Our Problems and What We Can Do About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 3.87 — 437 ratings — published 2019
Magic Bean: The Rise of Soy in America (CultureAmerica)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 3.75 — 12 ratings — published
Food Fight: GMOs and the Future of the American Diet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 3.89 — 189 ratings — published 2017
Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,791 ratings — published 2016
Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 4.11 — 545 ratings — published 2008
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as food-system)
avg rating 4.01 — 899,956 ratings — published 2005
“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
“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
