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The Omnivore’s Dilemma : The Secrets Behind What You Eat
A Nation Of Farmers : Defeating The Food Crisis On American Soil

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Sharon Astyk & Aaron NewtonPublication Details
BookNew Society Publishers2009Description
More Americans than ever before require food stamps and food pantries just to get by, and a worldwide food crisis is unfolding, overseas and in our kitchens. The book includes in-depth guidelines for: Creating resilient local food systems Growing, cooking, and eating sustainably and naturally Becoming part of the solution to the food crisis The book argues that we need to make self-provisioning, once the most ordinary of human activities, central to our lives. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HD9005 .A87 2009 DUE 11-23-09
A History Of Food

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Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat ; translated by Anthea BellPublication Details
BookNew expanded edWiley-Blackwell2009Description
New expanded edition of a classic book, originally published to great critical acclaim from Raymond Blanc, The New York Times, The Sunday Telegraph, The Independent and more Tells the story of man?s relationship with food from earliest times to the present day Includes a new foreword by acclaimed food writer Betty Fussell, a preface by the author, updated bibliography, and a new chapter bringing the story up to date New edition in jacketed hardback, with c.70 illustrations and a new glossy color plate section “Indispensable, and an endlessly fascinating book. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) TX353 .T6413 2009 AVAILABLE
Journey To Planet Earth. Season One. Land Of Plenty, Land Of Want
The Cultural Feast : An Introduction To Food And Society

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Carol A. Bryant … [et al.]Publication Details
Book2nd edThomson/Wadsworth2003Description
THE CULTURAL FEAST looks at the impact of evolution, geography, environment, social structure, and religion on food practices around the world. The second unit looks at factors that influence current food practices, such as dietary revolutions that accompany advancements in agricultural practices; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) TX353 .C85 2003 DUE 11-19-09
Feeding People Is Easy

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Colin TudgePublication Details
BookPari2007Description
The book argues that it is possible to feed the world, forever, without damaging the environment or cruelty to animals. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) S494.5.S86 T83 2007 AVAILABLE
The Story Of An African Famine : Gender And Famine In Twentieth-century Malawi

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Megan VaughanPublication Details
BookPaperback re-issueCambridge University Press2006Description
This account of the 1949 famine in colonial Malawi employs a wide variety of historical sources, ranging from Colonial Office documentation to the songs of women who lived through the tragedy. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HC935.Z9 F38 2006 AVAILABLE
Hunger In America 2006 National Report Prepared For America’s Second Harvest : Final Report
The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved : Inside America’s Underground Food Movements

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Sandor Ellix KatzPublication Details
BookChelsea Green Pub2006Links
Description
From community-supported local farmers, community gardeners, and seed saving activists, to underground distribution networks of contraband foods and food resources rescued from the waste stream, this book shows how ordinary people can resist the dominant system, revive community-based food production, and take direct responsibility for their own health and nutrition. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) TX357 .K38 2006 DUE 01-27-10
The Future Of Food
Grains From Grass : Aging, Gender, And Famine In Rural Africa

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Lisa CliggettPublication Details
BookCornell University Press2005Links
Description
In her ethnography of the Gwembe Tonga people of rural Zambia, Lisa Cliggett explores what happens to kinship ties in times of famine. Cliggett?s book tells a story about how people living in environmentally and economically dire circumstances manage their social and material worlds to the best of their ability, sometimes at the cost of maintaining kinship bonds?a finding that challenges Western notions of family among indigenous people, especially in rural Africa. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) DT3058.T65 C55 2005 AVAILABLE
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