Readings Present
Recently finished
- Gina Kolata, Rethinking Thin
- Michael Ruhlman, The Reach of a Chef
Reads in progress
- Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Veganomicon
- Hugh Fearnley-Wittingstall, The River Cottage Meat Book
- Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power: the place of sugar in modern history
- Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism
- Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food
- Richard Manning, Food’s Frontier: the next Green Revolution
Returned to the library, unfinished
- Laurie Colwin, Home Cooking
- Carole M. Counihan, The Anthropology of Food and the Body
- Sidney Mintz, Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past
- Jack Bishop, A Year In A Vegetarian Kitchen (but we all know there’s no such thing as ever really finishing a cookbook)
- Dianne Jacobe, Will Write For Food
- Ann Vilesis, Kitchen Literacy
- Madhur Jaffrey, Indian Cooking (proof that the author is a great lady who loves us and wants us to be happy; I keep checking this one out and really need to get my own copy already)
- Jay Weinstein, The Ethical Gourmet: How to Enjoy Great Food That is Humanely Raised, Sustainable, Nonendangered, and That Replanishes the Earth
- Gary Paul Nabham, Coming Home to Eat: the pleasures and politics of local foods
- The Paradox of Plenty: hunger in a bountiful world. Douglas Boucher, ed.
- Daniel Charles, Lords of the Harvest: biotech, big money, and the future of food
- Louise Riotte, Carrots Love Tomatoes: secrets of companion planting for successful gardening
- Steve Solomon, Growing Vegetables West of the Cascards: the complete guide to natural gardening
- Steve Ettlinger, Twinkie, deconstructed: my journey to discover how the ingredients found in processed foods are grown, mined (yes, mined), and manipulated into what America eats
- Meeting the Expectations of the Land: Essays in Sustainable Agriculture and Stewardship, edited by Wes Jackson, Wendell Berry, and Bruce Coleman
See also: my list of Readings Past for books I finished and more books I didn’t want to return to the library.
