Washington's Green Grocer Lending Library

Welcome to the Washington's Green Grocer Lending Library! No fees, no big deal, just let us know if you would like to borrow one of these books or movies and we'll deliver it with your order. If you finish it by your next delivery, great. Leave it out in the burlap bag it comes to you in on the following delivery day and we'll pick it up and put it back in circulation. If you need another week, that's fine too. You've got two weeks to enjoy your item. We'll lend them out in a first request order, so check back often if something that you would like is not available. As soon as it's back to us we'll make it available again.

If you have had a book or movie out for awhile, maybe even a LONG while, you may be having flashbacks to the last day of 5th grade when you realize you've had a library book out the entire year...gulp. Seriously, no biggie, but please do return it with your next delivery and we'll get it back in circulation.          

To check out a book simply send Zeke an email  and let us know which selection you would like and maybe a back up if your first choice is already taken. We'll send you a confirmation email.

Happy reading, cooking, pondering, and discovering! 

 

Movies

 

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One Man, One Cow, One Planet - 

 

 

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Vanishing of the Bees - DVD

Honeybees have been mysteriously disappearing across the planet, literally vanishing from their hives. This film has been called "The most important documentary film since An Inconvenient Truth". Check out this trailer, then check out the DVD and watch it with some friends and spread the word!

 

 

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Dirt! The Movie

"An invigorating look at an invaluable substance we take for granted." - Los Angeles Times

A great movie. Here's a trailer:

 

 

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The Real Dirt on Farmer John (DVD) -Click here to see a preview of the movie

This quirky, warm and important film documents the life of John Peterson, farmer and founder of the wildly popular Angelic Organics. From the cover -  "The epic tale of a maverick Midwestern farmer. An outcast in his community, Farmer John bravely stands amidst a failing economy, vicious rumors, and violence. By melding the traditions of family farming with the power of art and free expression, this powerful story of transformation and renewal heralds a resurrection of farming in America."

 

 

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Food, Inc. (DVD) Click here to see a preview of the movie

A must see. Really.  "Food, Inc. lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory system."

 

 

How to Cook Your Life (DVD)   Available

Move over “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance!” Here comes Zen and the Art of a Good Meal! Filmmaker Doris Dörrie turns her attention to Buddhism and that age-old saying, you are what you eat. In How To Cook Your Life, Dörrie enlists the help of the charismatic Zen Master Edward Espe Brown to explain the guiding principles of Zen Buddhism as they apply to the preparation of food as well as life itself. “How a person goes about dealing with the ingredients for his meals” explains Dörrie “says a lot about him. How To Cook Your Life teaches us to be attentive in our everyday dealings with the most mundane things and also open our eyes to one of the most beautiful occupations: cooking.”

 

 

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King Corn (DVD)

From Amazon.com: "Picking up where Super Size Me left off, King Corn examines America's health woes through the multifaceted lens of one humble grain. Director Aaron Woolf and co-writers Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis offer irrefutable proof that the US is virtually drowning in the stuff. Check out the trailer:

 

 

   Available for free on Hulu  We don't have a copy of this one but you can watch it for free by clicking on the link.

The Future of Food (DVD on Hulu)   Click Here to Watch a Preview

"There is a revolution going on in the farm fields and on the dinner tables of America, a revolution that is transforming the very nature of the food we eat. THE FUTURE OF FOOD offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade."

 

Cookbooks

 

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SOS! The Six O'Clock Scramble to the Rescue by Aviva Goldfarb

Earth-Friendly, Kid Pleasing Dinners for Busy Families - Many of you are probably familiar with Aviva Goldfarb's fabulous meal planning service, "The Six O'clock Scramble". We think you'll find that this book is a natural companion to what we bring you on a weekly basis! 

 

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Vegan Family Meals - Real Food for Everyone by Ann Gentry

"This book gathers everyone around the table - meat lovers, vegetarians, and vegan, to share in accessible and appealing vegan recipes that will inspire readers concerned with the ethics and health of their food choices."

 

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The Camping Cookbook - Quick and easy recipies for delicious outdoor cooking.

A collection of recipes and a how to guide for modern camping that allows you to get away from the everyday hussle and bussle in order to enjoy nature, but at the same time treat your taste buds with delicious "home-cooked meals" simplified for cooking over a camp fire or stove.

 

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Happy in the Kitchen by Michel Richard

Written by a the much loved French-born chef and owner of award-winning restaurants, Michel Richard continues to inspire colleagues with his creativity of invention and extraordinary techniques by taking the foods we love and twisting it to transform good foods to great in the comfort of your own home kitchen.

 

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From Seed to Skillet - A Guide to Growing, Tending, Harvesting, and Cooking up Fresh, Healthful Food to Share with People You Love - by Jimmy Williams and Susam Heeger

"From Seed to Skillet contains everything the kitchen gardener needs to make the transit from vague dream to bountiful harvest and delicious meal." - Michael Pollan

 

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Farmer John's Cookbook: The Real Dirt on Vegetables - Seasonal recipes and stories from a community supported farm - by Farmer John Peterson and Angelic Organics

A cookbook that takes you out of the supermarket and onto the farm, Farmer John's Cookbook celebrates the seasonal cycles of vegetables that will inspire delicious and healthful food for your table.

 

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Nourishing Traditions - The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats - by Sally Fallon

Nourishing Traditions unites the wisdom of the ancient worlds with the latest scientific research to provide modern families with a guide to wise food choices and proper preparations techniques.

 

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Serving Up the Harvest - Celebrating the Goodness of Fresh Vegetables - by Andrea Chesman

No matter where you find your fresh-from-the-earth vegetables, they are still in need of inspired preparation.  Andrea Sheman shares her recipes to help you bring out the very best in whatever produce is at its peak.

 

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Momofuku by David Chang and Peter Meehan

Recipes that once you dare, you will make over and over again. 

 

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Around my French Table by Dorie Greenspan

"This personal book on homey French cooking is so beautiful that you'll want to lick the pages. I'll be working my way through every easy, delicious recipe." -Ina Garten

 

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Breakfast-Lunch-Tea -The Many Little Meals of Rose Bakery by Rose Carrarini

Over 100 recipes from Rose Bakery's most popular dishes. Rose Bakery, an Anglo-French bakery and restaurant in Paris serves up fresh and natural food under the owner's philosophy that ' life is improved by great food and great food can be achieved by everyone."

 

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Mission Food - Recipes and Ideas from and Improbable Restaurant by Anthony Myint and Karen Leibowitz.

Oh my gosh...I love this book. Mission Street food is a restaurant, a charitable organization, a taco truck, a burger stand and a clubhouse for innovative cooks tucked inside and unassuming Chinese take-out place. What a completely fun read!

 

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Wild Fermentation - The flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods by Sandor Ellix Katz

"Get ready to take a whirlwind trip through the wild world of fermented and live-culture cuisine! These vital foods - at the forefront of the "food as nutrition" movement - provide incredible health benefits and are delicious and easy to make."

 

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Super Natural Everyday by Heidi Swanson

The much anticipated second cookbook by Heidi of the wonderful blog 101 Cookbooks, this one is just as great...you're gonna love it! 

 

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Super Natural Cooking - Five Ways to Incorporate Whole and Natural Ingredients into your Cooking by Heidi Swanson

You've probably already heard of Heidi and this cookbook that was born from her wildly successful blog, 101 Cookbooks. She is due to release another book in April. Look for it here! *Update...it's here!!*

 

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Artisan Breads Every Day - Fast and Easy Recipes fro World Class Breads by Peter Reinhart

 

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Love Soup by Anna Thomas

160 All-New Vegetarian Recipes from the Author of The Vegetarian Epicure (that one is here in our library as well!).

 

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Artisanal Gluten-Free Cooking by Kelli and Peter Brosnski

More than 250 great-tasting recipes from scratch. 

 

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In the Kitchen with a Good Appetite - 150 Recipes & Stories About Food You Love by Melissa Clark

Melissa is the writer for "A Good Appetite" in the New York Times Dining Section. You'll find her very warm and approachable story telling a delight and her recipes a treasure.

 

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Ratio - The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking by Michael Ruhlman

"When you know a ratio, it's not like knowing a single recipe, it's instantly knowing a thousand."

 

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Kripalu Cookbook by Atma Joann Levitt

Gourmet vegetarian recipes from Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. 

 

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White Dog Cafe Cookbook by Judy Wicks and Kevin Von Klause

Multicultural recipes and tales of adventure from Philadelphia's revolutionary restaurant.

 

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Healthy Cuisine of India by Bharti Kircher

Delicious recipes from the fragrant and bountiful food of the Bengal Region of India.

 

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Miss Dahl's Voluptuous Delights - Recipes for Every Season, Mood and Appetite by Sophie Dahl

From "Hortense's Fish Soup" to Hangover Eggs - you'll love the easy, breezy approach Sophie takes to whipping up something in the kitchen.

 

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Vegetable Dishes I Can't Live Without by Mollie Katzen

Molly Katzen is such a pioneer in the world of vegetarian cooking that when she comes up with a book solely compiled of dishes she can't live with out, I'm reading it!

 

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Simple Desserts by Ken Haedrich

These really are simple desserts and every single one that I have made is terrific and baking is not my strongest skill in the kitchen.

 

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Cold Weather Cooking  by Sarah Leah Chase

Did anyone ever get to Que Sera Sarah on Nantucket? I think it's gone now, but that was Sarah's shop where people would flock to and stock up on goodies for their picnics on the beach, or backyard dinner parties. There is some great stuff in this book and it's still cold outside!

 

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Grub - Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen by Annal Lappe and Bryant Terry

From Publisher's Weekly- From making healthy food choices and preparing mouth-watering meals, to unmasking corporate flimflam and supporting sustainable farming, here is the complete guide for the young, the hip, the socially tuned-in - and for all who want to eat real food. 

 

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The Modern Vegetarian Kitchen by Peter Berley

From Publisher's Weekly - A chef for seven years at the Angelica Kitchen, New York City's hip vegan restaurant, Berley focuses on how the act of cooking can nourish one's life in this (mostly) vegan cookbook. Emphasizing home-cooked meals as opposed to gourmet feasts, Berley articulates the principles and techniques behind each recipe. Based on fresh and seasonally available ingredients, the cookbook reads like a valentine to Berley's grandmother, who cooked and baked using foods from her organic garden

 

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Fresh Food Fast - Delicious Seasonal Vegetarian Meals in Under and Hour by Peter Berley

True to his roots as a restaurant chef, cooking teacher, and family man, award-winning vegetarian chef Peter Berley has a passion for meals that taste incredible, salute the seasons, and are easy to prepare in under an hour. In Fresh Food Fast, he provides forty-eight meals -- twelve for each season -- including recipes, a shopping list, an equipment list, and a game plan that takes you step-by-step through the menu.

 

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Potpies - Yumminess in a Dish by Elinor Klavans

With succulent fillings under their golden toppings, it's no wonder that potpies have such a universal appeal. Author Elinor Klivans offers a huge range of filling options from vegetables and eggs to meats, chicken, or fish. And the variety of toppings is a real eye-opener: homemade crusts; story-bought phyllo or puff pastry; tortillas; quick-mixing corn bread or biscuits; even nuts, potatoes, or bread

 

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The Vegetarian Epicure - Book Two by Anna Thomas

Written in the 70's, this book has that early Mollie Katzen type of feel to it with folksy illustrations and recipes that are delicious, healthy and pioneers of the "health food" movement.

 

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Frank Stitt's Bottega Favorita - A Southern Chef's Love Affair with Italian Food by Frank Stitt - 

I talked about getting a copy of this cookbook (the other Frank Stitt book is on it's way!) in this blog post about my Frank Stitt love. Here it is!

 

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Let's Cook Japanese Food! - Everyday Recipes for Home Cooking by Amy Kaneko

Home cooking Japanese-style is made easy and delicious with no challenging ingredients or special shopping trips. In this book you'll find real flavors of everyday Japanese specialties that are easy to prepare in your own home.

 

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Artisan Bread in Five Minutes - The Discovery that Revolutionizes Home Baking by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois

From Publisher's Weekly - "While the phrase artisan bread typically evokes images of labor-intensive sessions and top-notch ingredients, for authors Hertzberg and François it means five minutes. An intriguing concept—high-quality, fresh bread in less time than it takes to boil water. The authors' promises of no kneading, no starter, no proofing yeast and no need for a bread machine is based on the concept of mixed and risen high-moisture dough stored in the fridge for up to two weeks (dough is cut into pieces and popped in the oven for fresh loaves as desired). Note: for those tracking minutes, the five-minutes doesn't include the 20-minute resting time for dough or 30 minutes for baking."  By the way, have you checked out our blog post on Speedy No-Knead Bread?

 

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Go Dairy Free - The Guide and Cookbook for Milk Allergies, Lactose Intolerance and Casien-Free Cooking by Alisa Marie Fleming

  

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Jaime's Food Revolution by Jaime Oliver

The book that came before the movie, err..I mean TV show. If you've been reading my blog, you'll already have seen some of the recipes as I've taken "revolution oath" to teach one recipe from each chapter to friends and family.  

 

Non-Fiction

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Fair Food - Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All by Oren B. Hesterman, PhD

Longtime good food pioneer Oran Hesterman knows that we can't fix the broken food system simply by changing what's on our plates: the answer lies beyond the kitchen.

 

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Tomatoland - How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit by Barry Estabrook

 

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A Year in the Village of Eternity - by Tracey Lawson

Lawson shares the secrets of the residents of Campodimele, Italy that led them to a long, active and healthy lifestyle, in which you take part in as well!

 

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Made from Scratch - Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life - by Jenna Woginrich

"This is an outstanding book for anyone yearning for the satisfaction that comes with a simpler, more self-reliant and sustainable life. I highly recommend it, for both country and city homesteaders." - Cheryl Long

 

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Comfort Me with Apples - More Adventures at the Table by Ruth Reichl

The sequel to her bestseller Tender at the Bone (we have that one two), Ruth Reichl returns with ore tales of love, life and marvelous meals. 

 

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Real Food - What to Eat and Why by Nina Planck

Hailed as the "patron saint of famers' market" and one of the "great food activists", Nina Planck is single-handedly changing the way we view real food. 

 

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A Homemade Life - Stories and Recipes from my Kitchen Table by Molly Wizenberg

From the founder of the acclaimed blog - Orangette, comes this wonderful book full of warm and wise tales and well-loved recipes. 

 

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Birdology: Adventures with a pack of hens, a peck of pigeons, cantakerous crows, fierce falcons, hip hop parrots, baby hummingnirds, and one murderously big living dinoaur by Sy Montgomery.

 

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The Art of the Commonplace - The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

Twenty-one essays by Wendell Berry that offer an agrarian alternative to our dominant urban culture.

 

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The Town that Food Saved - How one community found vitatlity in local food by Ben Hewitt

From Bookliist - A microscopic burg in northern Vermont may just be the epicenter of a new food movement, a scenario that alternately amuses, enthuses, and enrages its 3,200 residents. With a hardscrabble reputation left over from its heyday as a mining metropolis, Hardwick has had to rely on a can-do/can-do-without stoicism before, though the current economic downturn is certainly testing its mettle. Enter a group of young, energetic agribusinessmen—agripreneurs is Hewitt’s newly minted term—whose vision for a revolutionary farm-to-table locavore movement aimed at turning Hardwick’s, and possibly the nation’s, food crisis around has captured national media attention and garnered local skepticism. 

 

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The Taste of Place -A Cultural Journey in to Terroir by Amy B. Trubek

How and why do we think about food, taste it, and cook it? While much has been written about the concept of terroir as it relates to wine, in this vibrant, personal book, Amy Trubeck, a pioneering voice in the new culinary revolution, expands the concept of terroir beyond wine and into cuisine and culture more broadly.

 

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American Terroir - Savoring the Flavors of Our Woods, Waters and Fields by Rowan Jacobsen

American Terroir shares the best of America's bounty as it explains why place matters.  The first guide to the "flavor landscape" of some of our most iconic foods, it includes recipes and resources for finding place-specific foods.

 

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Bringing It To The Table - On Farming and Food by Wendell Berry

Only a farmer could delve so deeply into the origins of food, and only a writer of Wendell Berry’s caliber could convey it with such conviction and eloquence. For the last five decades, Berry has embodied mindful eating through his land practices and his writing.

 

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Deeply Rooted - Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness by Lisa M. Hamilton

From Publishers Weekly -"Journalist and photographer Hamilton presents a multicultural snapshot of the American sustainable agriculture movement, profiling a Texas dairyman, a New Mexican rancher and a North Dakotan farmer, all who have converted from conventional to sustainable agriculture for economic and personal reasons. 

 

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Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Originally published anonymously, "Nature" was the first modern essay to recommend the appreciation of the outdoors as an all-encompassing positive force. 

 

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The $64 Tomato - How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Tomato - by William Alexander

This is a book is hilarious. If you enjoy gardening even the littlest bit, you need to read this book.

 

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The Ungarnished Truth - A Cooking Contest Memoir by Ellie Mathews 

Have you ever thought about entering a cooking contest? Mathews does a great job here of diving into the sub-culture of cooking contests and tells you the story of how she entered the Pillsbury Bake Off, never expecting to win, and walked away with the grand prize - One million dollars. 

 

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Teaching Kids to Love the Earth - Sharing a Sense of Wonder...186 Outdoor Activities for Parents and Other Teachers 

This wonderful book helps you light a spark or a fire in your kids desire to connect with the earth. For more than 7 years the four Naturalists that wrote this book conducted their "Sense of Wonder" workshops for families in Minnesota and Wisconsin. It's format is terrific as it gives a story, activities, "Did You Know" and resources for each idea presented.

 

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Tender to the Bone - Growing up at the Table by Ruth Reichl

You'll be laughing, hungry and satiated in the pages of this wonderful memoir of New York time restaurant critic and former Editor-in-Chief of Gourmet magazine, Ruth Reichl.

 

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My Vegetable Love -A Journal of a Growing Season by Carl Klaus

Home gardeners, cooks and nature lovers will savor this delightful account in Iowa.

 

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My Life in France by Julia Childs

If you love food, travel and Julia, you will love this book.

 

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Lunch Lessons - Changing the Way we Feed Our Children by Ann Cooper

Our favorite renegade lunch lady is working to transform how we feed our children in schools each day from highly processed to highly nutritious food - one school lunch at a time.

 

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Honeybee - Lessons From an Accidental Beekeeper by C. Marina Marchese

Ten years ago, Marina Marchese fell in love with bees during a tour of a neighbor's honeybee hives. She quit her job, acquired her own bees, built hives, harvested honey, earned a certificate in apitherapy, studied wine tasting in order to transfer those skills  to honey tasting, and eventually opened her own business. 

 

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Radical Simplicity - Creating an Authentic Life by Dan Price

This is such a fun book. It is touted as "this generation's version of Walden" and I must say..it is a very fun look at (literally, as Dan Price is an amazing illustrator) a somewhat extreme approach to paring down to the essentials and creating a fully satisfying life.

 

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In Defense of Food - An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan

In this book, the author of The Omnivore's Dilemma shows us a way to make thoughtful food choices that will" enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy and bring pleasure back to eating." 

 

Fiction 

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The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones

A recently widowed American food writer finds solace and love—and the most inspiring food she's ever encountered—during a visit to China in Mones's sumptuous latest. 

 

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The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister

From Publishers Weekly - "In this remarkable debut, Bauermeister creates a captivating world where the pleasures and particulars of sophisticated food come to mean much more than simple epicurean indulgence. Respected chef and restaurateur Lillian has spent much of her 30-something years in the kitchen, looking for meaning and satisfaction in evocative, delicious combinations of ingredients. Endeavoring to instill that love and know-how in others, Lillian holds a season of Monday evening cooking classes in her restaurant. The novel takes up the story of each of her students, navigating readers through the personal dramas, memories and musings stirred up as the characters handle, slice, chop, blend, smell and taste. Each student's affecting story—painful transitions, difficult choices—is rendered in vivid prose and woven together with confidence. Delivering memorable story lines and characters while seducing the senses, Bauermeister's tale of food and hope is certain to satisfy

 

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Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto 

From The Library Journal -"In this translation of a best-selling novel first published in Japan in 1987, the young narrator, Mikage, moves into the apartment of a friend whose mother is murdered early in the tale. What seems like a coming-of-age melodrama quickly evolves into a deeply moving tale filled with unique characters and themes. Along the way, readers get a taste of contemporary Japan, with its mesh of popular American food and culture."