Media and Books

In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan

A forward thinking examination of how to connect to our eating roots.

Moveable Feasts by Sarah Murray

An in-depth and fascinating history of food, how it is shipped and the innovations that allow our food to get to us.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

Kingsolver, the well-known author of bestselling fiction titles The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees went to live in rural Virginia and vowed to only grow, or locally buy all her family’s food for one year.

The Solace of Food: A Life of James Beard by Robert Clark

A biography of the man who many credit with jump-starting the image of America as a culturally relevant food country.

Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin

The story of one autistic woman and her uncanny ability to understand animals, and her mission to promote better treatment of the animals we eat, and don’t eat.

What to Eat by Marion Nestle

Marion Nestle is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University. What to Eat is a straighforward text by a consumer advocate. It is chock full of the scary ways our food choices are calculated by the large food producers, and what we can do to make sure we are making our own informed choices.