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Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Cultureby Jeremy RifkinISBN 0452269520 (0-452-26952-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Beef : The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture'Book summary:Traces the history of human beef consumption and asks why Western civilization continues to raise and eat the cattle that threaten the global environment, human health, and economic stability. 35,000 first printing. National ad/promo. Tour. [via]
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Can You Trust a Tomato in January?: The Hidden Life of Groceries and Other Secrets of the Supermarket Revealed at Lastby Vince StatenISBN 0671885782 (0-671-88578-2)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Can You Trust a Tomato in January?: The Hidden Life of Groceries and Other Secrets of the Supermarket Revealed at Last'Book summary:Here is the great American ritual of supermarket shopping in all its Muzak-drenched, fluorescent-lit, coupon-clipped glory. In this fascinating expedition through the world of polished linoleum-tiled aisles, find out why peanut butter doesn't stick to the roof of your mouth anymore, discover the lost connection between graham crackers and sex, and learn what's really in the mysterious stuff they call Cool Whip. Join author Vince Staten on his humorous and revealing journey through the secret life of our favorite supermarket items, as he uncovers the hidden histories and fascinating folklore behind the foods we take for granted. The results are truly amazing and reveal the answers to such questions as: Which has more lemon in it, Lemon Pledge or Country Time Lemonade? What is Spam- and why is it so darn popular? What happened to the vanilla in Nabisco Nilla Wafers? Who thought of putting American cheese in an aerosol can, and is it really cheese, anyway? [via]
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Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Foodby Charles Wilson, Eric SchlosserISBN 0618593942 (0-618-59394-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food'Book summary:In the New York Times bestseller Chew on This, Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson unwrap the fast-food industry to bring you a behind-the-scenes look at a business that both feeds and feeds off the young. Find out what really goes on at your favorite restaurants-and what lurks between those sesame seed buns.
Praised for being accessible, honest, humorous, fascinating, and alarming, Chew On This was also repeatedly referred to as a must-read for kids who regularly eat fast food. Having all the facts about fast food helps young people make healthy decisions about what they eat. Chew On This shows them that they can change the world by changing what they eat.
Chew on This also includes action steps, a discussion guide, and a new afterword by the authors. [via]More editions of Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food:
Cut Your Grocery Bills in Halfby Barbara SalsburyISBN 0874915317 (0-87491-531-7)
Softcover, Devorss & Co
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Deadly Feastsby Richard RhodesISBN 0684844257 (0-684-84425-7)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plagueby Richard RhodesISBN 0684823608 (0-684-82360-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague'Book summary:In a non-fiction narrative that reads like a medical thriller, richard rhodes follows virus hunters on three continents as they track the emergence of a deadly new brain disease that first kills cannibals in new guinea, then cattle and young people in britain and france -- and that has already been traced to food animals in the united states. A new afterword assesses what needs to be done to prevent a fatal epidemic."an upton sinclair-ish look inside the modern meat industry....rhodes tells this medical detective story beautifully". -- john schwartz, the washington post [via]
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Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earthby John RobbinsISBN 0915811812 (0-915811-81-2)
Softcover, H J Kramer
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth'Book summary:john robbins has written a most extraordinary, compelling book, one bound to shake our innermost core. Diet for a new america is a must for anyone concerned about ecology."--the las vegas sun. Photos [via]
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Softcover, H J Kramer
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Diet For A Dead Planet: How The Food Industry Is Killing Usby Christopher CookISBN 1595580840 (1-59558-084-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diet for a Dead Planet: How The Food Industry Is Killing Us'Book summary:A harrowing indictment of industrial agriculture's threat to the future of food and the environment.
As mad cow disease hits hard in the United States and bird flu roils the Asian poultry markets, the issue of food safety has never been more stark. According to the Centers for Disease Control, more than 75 million Americans fell sick last year from the food they ate. Christopher D. Cook's riveting and timely investigation takes us beyond Fast Food Nation to explain why our entire food system is in crisis. Corporate consolidation of farms and supermarkets, high-tech drives to increase productivity, misplaced subsidies for exports, and inadequate regulation have all combined to produce a grim harvest. In these pages we encounter fruit and vegetables laminated by crop spray, slaughterhouses that transport illegal immigrants to the United States to butcher diseased meat for less than the minimum wage, and the near-extinction of American family farms.
Yet, Cook argues, there is another way: Sales of organic food nearly tripled to $13 billion in 2001-2002. Farmers' markets and food cooperatives are burgeoning across the nation, and the slow food and food justice movements have become part of the mainstream. The eloquence and concision of Diet for a Dead Planet will spur the campaign still further.
- Food-borne pathogens cause up to 30 million human illnesses, and as many as 9,000 deaths, in the U.S. each year
- Agriculture dumps nearly 500,000 tons of pesticides many of them known carcinogens on our food each year
- American farms produce more than 1.3 billion tons of animal waste annually 5 tons for every U.S. citizen
- For every dollar consumers spend on food, 81 cents goes on marketing with just 19 cents to the farmer
- Farm subsidies in the United States and European Union total nearly half a billion dollars a day
- The average food item in the United States travels 2,000 miles from farm to table
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Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food And the Supersizing of Americaby Morgan SpurlockISBN 0425210235 (0-425-21023-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food And the Supersizing of America'Book summary:The literary debut of the funniest and most incisive new voice to come along since Michael Moore-and the acclaimed director of the film phenomenon of the year.
Can man live on fast food alone? Morgan Spurlock tried to do just that. For thirty days, he ate nothing but three "squares" a day from McDonald's as part of an investigation into the effects of fast food on American health. The resulting documentary won him resounding applause and a worldwide release that broke box-office records. Audiences were captivated by Spurlock's experiment, during which he gained twenty-five pounds, his blood pressure skyrocketed, and his libido all but disappeared.
But this story goes far beyond Spurlock's good-humored "Mc-Sickness." He traveled across the country-into schools, hospitals, and people's homes -to investigate school lunch programs, the marketing of fast food, and the declining emphasis on health and physical education. He looks at why fast food is so tasty, cheap, and ultimately seductive, and what Americans can do to turn the rising tide of obesity, hypertension, and diabetes that have accompanied its ever-growing popularity. He interviewed experts in twenty U.S. cities-from surgeon generals and kids to lawmakers and marketing gurus-who share their research, opinions, and "gut feelings" on our ever-expanding girth and what we can all do to offset a health crisis of supersized proportions.
In this groundbreaking, hilarious book, "benevolent muckraker" Morgan Spurlock debuts a wry investigative voice that will appeal to anyone interested in the health of our country, our children, and ourselves. [via]More editions of Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food And the Supersizing of America:
Empty Harvest: Understanding the Link Between Our Food, Our Immunity, and Our Planetby Mark Anderson, Bernard JensenISBN 089529558X (0-89529-558-X)
Softcover, Avery Pub Group
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The End of Foodby Thomas F. PawlickISBN 1569803021 (1-56980-302-1)
Softcover, Barricade Books Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The End of Food'Book summary:This book is based on hard scientific research, most of which has been conducted outside of the United States, where food production lobbies have fought hard against this kind of research. Pawlick exposes an alarming trend in the food available in our grocery stores. This is not an argument about unhealthy, processed foods, rather it exposes the problems with all foods, including fruits and vegetables that people commonly assume are healthy. [via]
Farm Animal Welfare: Social, Bioethical, and Research Issuesby Bernard E. RollinISBN 0813825636 (0-8138-2563-6)
Hardcover, Blackwell Pub Professional
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The Fast Food Craze: Wreaking Havoc On Our Bodies And Our Animalsby tina VolpeISBN 0976134306 (0-9761343-0-6)
Softcover, Canyon Pub Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fast Food Craze: Wreaking Havoc On Our Bodies And Our Animals'Book summary:A hopeful, eye-opening book by first-time author, Tina Volpe, The Fast Food Craze discusses the fast food giants and how their business decisions affect the animals in the slaughterhouses, our health, and encourages readers to stop and think: Why are we eating animals?
The book includes descriptions of what happens in slaughterhouses to the animals and some characteristics of the animals in a natural environment.
Readers have a chance to explore vegetarianism, the treatment of animals, and the importance of making healthful and compassionate decisions. [via]
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Fast Food Nationby Eric SchlosserISBN 0618130977 (0-618-13097-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fast Food Nation'Book summary:On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie. But the industry's drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America's diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways. Eric Schlosser, an award-winning journalist, opens his ambitious and ultimately devastating exposé with an introduction to the iconoclasts and high school dropouts, such as Harlan Sanders and the McDonald brothers, who first applied the principles of a factory assembly line to a commercial kitchen. Quickly, however, he moves behind the counter with the overworked and underpaid teenage workers, onto the factory farms where the potatoes and beef are grown, and into the slaughterhouses run by giant meatpacking corporations. Schlosser wants you to know why those French fries taste so good (with a visit to the world's largest flavor company) and "what really lurks between those sesame-seed buns." Eater beware: forget your concerns about cholesterol, there is--literally--feces in your meat.
Schlosser's investigation reaches its frightening peak in the meatpacking plants as he reveals the almost complete lack of federal oversight of a seemingly lawless industry. His searing portrayal of the industry is disturbingly similar to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, written in 1906: nightmare working conditions, union busting, and unsanitary practices that introduce E. coli and other pathogens into restaurants, public schools, and homes. Almost as disturbing is his description of how the industry "both feeds and feeds off the young," insinuating itself into all aspects of children's lives, even the pages of their school books, while leaving them prone to obesity and disease. Fortunately, Schlosser offers some eminently practical remedies. "Eating in the United States should no longer be a form of high-risk behavior," he writes. Where to begin? Ask yourself, is the true cost of having it "your way" really worth it? --Lesley Reed [via]
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Mealby Eric SchlosserISBN 0060838582 (0-06-083858-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal'Book summary:On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie. But the industry's drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America's diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways. Eric Schlosser, an award-winning journalist, opens his ambitious and ultimately devastating exposé with an introduction to the iconoclasts and high school dropouts, such as Harlan Sanders and the McDonald brothers, who first applied the principles of a factory assembly line to a commercial kitchen. Quickly, however, he moves behind the counter with the overworked and underpaid teenage workers, onto the factory farms where the potatoes and beef are grown, and into the slaughterhouses run by giant meatpacking corporations. Schlosser wants you to know why those French fries taste so good (with a visit to the world's largest flavor company) and "what really lurks between those sesame-seed buns." Eater beware: forget your concerns about cholesterol, there is--literally--feces in your meat.
Schlosser's investigation reaches its frightening peak in the meatpacking plants as he reveals the almost complete lack of federal oversight of a seemingly lawless industry. His searing portrayal of the industry is disturbingly similar to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, written in 1906: nightmare working conditions, union busting, and unsanitary practices that introduce E. coli and other pathogens into restaurants, public schools, and homes. Almost as disturbing is his description of how the industry "both feeds and feeds off the young," insinuating itself into all aspects of children's lives, even the pages of their school books, while leaving them prone to obesity and disease. Fortunately, Schlosser offers some eminently practical remedies. "Eating in the United States should no longer be a form of high-risk behavior," he writes. Where to begin? Ask yourself, is the true cost of having it "your way" really worth it? --Lesley Reed [via]
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- Fast Food Nation Tie-in: The Dark Side of the All-american Meal: ISBN 006116139X (0-06-116139-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal: ISBN 0395977894 (0-395-97789-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal: ISBN 0060938455 (0-06-093845-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal: ISBN 0060838582 (0-06-083858-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
- Fast Food Nation Tie-in: The Dark Side of the All-american Meal: ISBN 006116139X (0-06-116139-X)
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Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the Worldby Greg CritserISBN 0618380604 (0-618-38060-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World'Book summary:What in American society has changed so dramatically that nearly 60 percent of us are now overweight, plunging the nation into what the surgeon general calls an "epidemic of obesity"? Greg Critser engages every aspect of American life - class, politics, culture, and economics - to show how we have made ourselves the second fattest people on the planet (after South Sea Islanders).[via]
Fat Land highlights the groundbreaking research that implicates cheap fats and sugars as the alarming new metabolic factor making our calories stick and shows how and why children are too often the chief metabolic victims of such foods. No one else writing on fat America takes as hard a line as Critser on the institutionalized lies we've been telling ourselves about how much we can eat and how little we can exercise. His expose of the Los Angeles schools' opening of the nutritional floodgates in the lunchroom and his examination of the political and cultural forces that have set the bar on American fitness low and then lower, are both discerning reporting and impassioned wake-up calls.
Disarmingly funny, Fat Land leaves no diet book - including Dr. Atkins's - unturned. Fashions, both leisure and street, and American-style religion are subject to Critser's gimlet eye as well. Memorably, Fat Land takes on baby-boomer parenting shibboleths - that young children won't eat past the point of being full and that the dinner table isn't the place to talk about food rules - and gives advice many families will use to lose.
Critser's brilliantly drawn futuristic portrait of a Fat America just around the corner and his all too contemporary foray into the diabetes ward of a major children's hospital make Fat Land a chilling but brilliantly rendered portrait of the cost in human lives - many of them very young lives - of America's obesity epidemic.More editions of Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World:
Fed Up: The Food Forces That Make You Fat, Sick and Poorby Brett SilversteinISBN 0896082237 (0-89608-223-7)
Softcover, South End Pr
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Feeding the Future: From Fat to Famine, How to Solve the World's Food Crisesby Andrew Heintzman, Evan SolomonISBN 0887847447 (0-88784-744-7)
Softcover, House of Anansi Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Feeding the Future: From Fat to Famine, How to Solve the World's Food Crises'Book summary:As humanity enters the 21st century, globalization and modernization promise to make for more consumption of grains, beef, and fish than ever before. The 2 billion inhabitants of India and China are set to purchase at unprecedented levels, and sub-Saharan Africa will need to overcome its many torturous famines. What kinds of fixes can ensure the stability of the food supply throughout the 21st century and beyond? Feeding the Future provides pragmatic, learned solutions to the issues that loom large. Nine chapters, each penned by a different expert, examine issues ranging from food safety to the business of food to conservation. "Fish or Cut Bait" examines overfishing and other practices that threaten to ruin the world's seas, while "Between Feast and Famine" takes on the issue of global trade, showing how globalization can be made to work for all. Combining social ingenuity, emerging technologies, and smart business models, Feeding the Future offers real solutions for a world that needs them now more than ever.[via]More editions of Feeding the Future: From Fat to Famine, How to Solve the World's Food Crises:
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Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Healthby Marion NestleISBN 0520240677 (0-520-24067-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health'Book summary:In the U.S., we're bombarded with nutritional advice--the work, we assume, of reliable authorities with our best interests at heart. Far from it, says Marion Nestle, whose Food Politics absorbingly details how the food industry--through lobbying, advertising, and the co-opting of experts--influences our dietary choices to our detriment. Central to her argument is the American "paradox of plenty," the recognition that our food abundance (we've enough calories to meet every citizen's needs twice over) leads profit-fixated food producers to do everything possible to broaden their market portion, thus swaying us to eat more when we should do the opposite. The result is compromised health: epidemic obesity to start, and increased vulnerability to heart and lung disease, cancer, and stroke--reversible if the constantly suppressed "eat less, move more" message that most nutritionists shout could be heard.
Nestle, nutrition chair at New York University and editor of the 1988 Surgeon General Report, has served her time in the dietary trenches and is ideally suited to revealing how government nutritional advice is watered down when a message might threaten industry sales. (Her report on byzantine nutritional food-pyramid rewordings to avoid "eat less" recommendations is both predictable and astonishing.) She has other "war stories," too, that involve marketing to children in school (in the form of soft-drink "pouring rights" agreements, hallway advertising, and fast-food coupon giveaways), and diet-supplement dramas in which manufacturers and the government enter regulation frays, with the industry championing "free choice" even as that position counters consumer protection. Is there hope? "If we want to encourage people to eat better diets," says Nestle, "we need to target societal means to counter food industry lobbying and marketing practices as well as the education of individuals." It's a telling conclusion in an engrossing and masterfully panoramic exposé. --Arthur Boehm [via]
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The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our Worldby John Robbins, Dean OrnishISBN 1573247022 (1-57324-702-2)
Softcover, Conari Pr
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Good Enough to Eat: How We Shop, What We Eatby Maureen TatlowISBN 0717126978 (0-7171-2697-8)
Hardcover, Gill & Macmillan
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The Jungleby Upton Beall SinclairISBN 1417934417 (1-4179-3441-7)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle'Book summary:The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.Upton Sinclairs muckraking masterpiece The Jungle centers on Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant working in Chicagos infamous Packingtown. Instead of finding the American Dream, Rudkus and his family inhabit a brutal, soul-crushing urban jungle dominated by greedy bosses, pitiless con-men, and corrupt politicians.
While Sinclairs main target was the industrys appalling labor conditions, the reading public was most outraged by the disgusting filth and contamination in American food that his novel exposed. As a result, President Theodore Roosevelt demanded an official investigation, which quickly led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug laws. For a work of fiction to have such an impact outside its literary context is extremely rare. (At the time of The Jungles publication in 1906, the only novel to have led to social change on a similar scale in America was Uncle Toms Cabin.)
Today, The Jungle remains a relevant portrait of capitalism at its worst and an impassioned account of the human spirit facing nearly insurmountable challenges.
Maura Spiegel teaches literature and film at Columbia University and Barnard College. She is the coauthor of The Grim Reader and The Breast Book: An Intimate and Curious History. She coedits Literature and Medicine, a journal.
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Hardcover, Bt Bound - The Jungle: ISBN 1593081642 (1-59308-164-2)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - The Jungle: ISBN 1566195667 (1-56619-566-7)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble Imports - The Jungle: ISBN 140436806X (1-4043-6806-X)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com - The Jungle: ISBN 1566195527 (1-56619-552-7)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Imports - The Jungle: ISBN 0140390316 (0-14-039031-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Jungle: ISBN 014303958X (0-14-303958-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Jungle: ISBN 0252014804 (0-252-01480-4)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr - The Jungle: ISBN 039397779X (0-393-97779-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Jungle: ISBN 0451528042 (0-451-52804-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Jungle: ISBN 0486419231 (0-486-41923-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - The Jungle: ISBN 0534521797 (0-534-52179-7)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co - The Jungle: ISBN 0553212451 (0-553-21245-1)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - The Jungle: ISBN 0743487621 (0-7434-8762-1)
Softcover, Pocket Classics - The Jungle: ISBN 0812976231 (0-8129-7623-1)
Softcover, Modern Library - The Jungle: ISBN 0613460820 (0-613-46082-0)
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Hardcover, Replica Books - The Jungle: ISBN 0899664156 (0-89966-415-6)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books - The Jungle: ISBN 0451524209 (0-451-52420-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Jungle: ISBN 0804900868 (0-8049-0086-8)
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- The Jungle: ISBN 1593080085 (1-59308-008-5)
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The Jungleby Upton SinclairISBN 1404311572 (1-4043-1157-2)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle'Book summary:Practically alone among the American writers of his generation, wrote Edmund Wilson, [Sinclair] put to the American public the fundamental questions raised by capitalism in such a way that they could not escape them. When it was first published in 1906, The Jungle exposed the inhumane conditions of Chicagos stockyards and the laborers struggle against industry and wage slavery. It was an immediate bestseller and led to new regulations that forever changed workers rights and the meatpacking industry. A direct descendant of Dickenss Hard Times, it remains the most influential workingmans novel in American literature. [via]
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The Jungleby Christopher Phelps, Upton Beall SinclairISBN 0312400373 (0-312-40037-3)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle'Book summary:Upton Sinclairs novel The Jungle, which inspired passage in 1906 of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act, stands as a classic of twentieth-century American literature and social protest. In this accessible and thorough edition by Christopher Phelps, a critical introduction addresses the wide range of issues raised by the text, including early twentieth-century working conditions, immigrant community, race and gender, political reform, and the continuing relevance of Sinclairs investigation. This edition uses the most widely recognized text of The Jungle the Doubleday, Page edition published in 1906 and provides an illuminating supporting document: President Theodore Roosevelts delivery to Congress of the official report that confirmed The Jungles shocking allegations about the Chicago meatpacking industry. Questions for consideration, a chronology, and a selected bibliography help contextualize Sinclairs novel and provide students with resources for further study.[via]More editions of The Jungle:
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The Jungleby Emily Russell, Peter KuperISBN 1561634115 (1-56163-411-5)
Softcover, Nbm Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle'Book summary:Peter Kupers Classics Illustrated adaptation of Upton Sinclair`s whistle-blowing novel on the conditions at the Chicago slaughter houses in the early 20th century is brought back to press in a beautiful larger size hardcover. One of his best and most poignant works. [via]
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The Jungleby James R. Barrett, Upton Beall SinclairISBN 0252014944 (0-252-01494-4)
Hardcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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The Jungleby Janice Greene, Upton Beall Sinclair, Shelley MatheisISBN 0835910482 (0-8359-1048-2)
Softcover, Globe Fearon Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle'Book summary:With its high-interest adaptations of classic literature and plays, this series inspires reading success and further exploration for all students. These classics are skillfully adapted into concise, softcover books of 80-136 pages. Each retains the integrity and tone of the original book.
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The Jungleby Peter Kuper, Emily RussellISBN 1561634042 (1-56163-404-2)
Hardcover, Nbm Pub Co
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Kill and Chill: Restructuring Canada's Beef Commodity Chainby Ian MacLachlanISBN 080207832X (0-8020-7832-X)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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Kitchen Confidentialby Anthony BourdainISBN 0747550727 (0-7475-5072-7)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kitchen Confidential'Book summary:Most diners believe that their sublime sliver of seared foie gras, topped with an ethereal buckwheat blini and a drizzle of piquant huckleberry sauce, was created by a culinary artist of the highest order, a sensitive, highly refined executive chef. The truth is more brutal. More likely, writes Anthony Bourdain in Kitchen Confidential, that elegant three-star concoction is the collaborative effort of a team of "wacked-out moral degenerates, dope fiends, refugees, a thuggish assortment of drunks, sneak thieves, sluts, and psychopaths," in all likelihood pierced or tattooed and incapable of uttering a sentence without an expletive or a foreign phrase. Such is the muscular view of the culinary trenches from one who's been groveling in them, with obvious sadomasochistic pleasure, for more than 20 years. CIA-trained Bourdain, currently the executive chef of the celebrated Les Halles, wrote two culinary mysteries before his first (and infamous) New Yorker essay launched this frank confessional about the lusty and larcenous real lives of cooks and restaurateurs. He is obscenely eloquent, unapologetically opinionated, and a damn fine storyteller--a Jack Kerouac of the kitchen. Those without the stomach for this kind of joyride should note his opening caveat: "There will be horror stories. Heavy drinking, drugs, screwing in the dry-goods area, unappetizing industry-wide practices. Talking about why you probably shouldn't order fish on a Monday, why those who favor well-done get the scrapings from the bottom of the barrel, and why seafood frittata is not a wise brunch selection.... But I'm simply not going to deceive anybody about the life as I've seen it." --Sumi Hahn [via]
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbellyby Anthony BourdainISBN 158234082X (1-58234-082-X)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly'Book summary:Most diners believe that their sublime sliver of seared foie gras, topped with an ethereal buckwheat blini and a drizzle of piquant huckleberry sauce, was created by a culinary artist of the highest order, a sensitive, highly refined executive chef. The truth is more brutal. More likely, writes Anthony Bourdain in Kitchen Confidential, that elegant three-star concoction is the collaborative effort of a team of "wacked-out moral degenerates, dope fiends, refugees, a thuggish assortment of drunks, sneak thieves, sluts, and psychopaths," in all likelihood pierced or tattooed and incapable of uttering a sentence without an expletive or a foreign phrase. Such is the muscular view of the culinary trenches from one who's been groveling in them, with obvious sadomasochistic pleasure, for more than 20 years. CIA-trained Bourdain, currently the executive chef of the celebrated Les Halles, wrote two culinary mysteries before his first (and infamous) New Yorker essay launched this frank confessional about the lusty and larcenous real lives of cooks and restaurateurs. He is obscenely eloquent, unapologetically opinionated, and a damn fine storyteller--a Jack Kerouac of the kitchen. Those without the stomach for this kind of joyride should note his opening caveat: "There will be horror stories. Heavy drinking, drugs, screwing in the dry-goods area, unappetizing industry-wide practices. Talking about why you probably shouldn't order fish on a Monday, why those who favor well-done get the scrapings from the bottom of the barrel, and why seafood frittata is not a wise brunch selection.... But I'm simply not going to deceive anybody about the life as I've seen it." --Sumi Hahn [via]
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Lilly: Reminiscences of Lillian Hellmanby Peter FeiblemanISBN 0688061885 (0-688-06188-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, and the Future of Foodby Daniel CharlesISBN 073820773X (0-7382-0773-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Iby Michael RuhlmanISBN 0805061738 (0-8050-6173-8)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary I'Book summary:Journalist Michael Ruhlman talked his way into the CIA: the Culinary Institute of America, the Harvard of cooking schools. It had something to do with potatoes a grand-uncle had eaten deacades earlier, how the man could remember them so well for so long, buried as they had been in the middle of an elegant meal. Ruhlman wanted to learn how to cook potatoes like that--like an art--and the CIA seemed the place to go. The fun part of this book is that we all get to go along for the ride without having to endure the trauma of cooking school.
Ever wonder what goes on in a busy kitchen, why your meal comes late or shows up poorly cooked? The temptation is to blame the waiter, but there are a world of cooks behind those swinging doors, and Ruhlman marches you right into it. It's a world where, when everything is going right, time halts and consciousness expands. And when a few things go wrong, the earth begins to wobble on its axis. Ruhlamn has the writerly skills to make the education of a chef a visceral experience. [via]
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The Making of a Chef : Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of Americaby Michael RuhlmanISBN 0805046747 (0-8050-4674-7)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Making of a Chef : Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America'Book summary:Journalist Michael Ruhlman talked his way into the CIA: the Culinary Institute of America, the Harvard of cooking schools. It had something to do with potatoes a grand-uncle had eaten deacades earlier, how the man could remember them so well for so long, buried as they had been in the middle of an elegant meal. Ruhlman wanted to learn how to cook potatoes like that--like an art--and the CIA seemed the place to go. The fun part of this book is that we all get to go along for the ride without having to endure the trauma of cooking school.
Ever wonder what goes on in a busy kitchen, why your meal comes late or shows up poorly cooked? The temptation is to blame the waiter, but there are a world of cooks behind those swinging doors, and Ruhlman marches you right into it. It's a world where, when everything is going right, time halts and consciousness expands. And when a few things go wrong, the earth begins to wobble on its axis. Ruhlamn has the writerly skills to make the education of a chef a visceral experience. [via]
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The Man Who Ate Everything : And Other Gastronomic Feats, Disputes, and Pleasurable Pursuitsby Jeffrey SteingartenISBN 0679430881 (0-679-43088-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man Who Ate Everything : And Other Gastronomic Feats, Disputes, and Pleasurable Pursuits'Book summary:When Jeffrey Steingarten was made food critic of Vogue in 1989, he began by systematically learning to like all the food he had previously avoided. From clams to Greek food to Indian desserts with the consistency of face cream, Steingarten undertook an extraordinary program of self-inflicted behavior modification to prepare himself for his new career. He describes the experience in this collection's first piece, before setting out on a series of culinary adventures that take him around the world.
It's clear that Vogue gave Steingarten carte blanche to write on whatever subjects tickled his taste buds, and the result is a frequently hilarious collection of essays that emphasize good eating over an obsession with health. "Salad, the Silent Killer" is a catalog of the toxins lurking in every bowl of raw vegetables, while "Fries" follows a heroic attempt to create the perfect French fry--cooked in horse fat. Whether baking sourdough bread in his Manhattan loft or spraying miso soup across a Kyoto restaurant, Steingarten is an ideal guide to the wilder reaches of gastronomy, a cross between M.F.K. Fisher and H.L. Mencken. [via]
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May All Be Fed: Diet for a New Worldby John Robbins, Jia PattonISBN 0688116256 (0-688-11625-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Meat Market: Animals, Ethics, And Moneyby Erik MarcusISBN 0975867911 (0-9758679-1-1)
Softcover, Brio Pr
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The Menu and the Cycle of Cost Controlby Paul J. McVety, Bradley J. Ware, Susan Desmond MarshallISBN 0787265977 (0-7872-6597-7)
Softcover, Kendall Hunt Pub Co
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No More Bull!: The Mad Cowboy Targets America's Worst Enemy Our Dietby Howard Lyman, Glen Merzer, Joanna Samarow-MerzerISBN 0743286987 (0-7432-8698-7)
Softcover, Scribner
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Mealsby Michael PollanISBN 1594200823 (1-59420-082-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals'Book summary:One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year Winner of the James Beard Award Author of #1 New York Times Bestsellers In Defense of Food and Food Rules Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described as a national eating disorder. Will it be fast food tonight, or something organic? Or perhaps something we grew ourselves? The question of what to have for dinner has confronted us since man discovered fire. But as Michael Pollan explains in this revolutionary book, how we answer it now, as the dawn of the twenty-first century, may determine our survival as a species. Packed with profound surprises, The Omnivore's Dilemma is changing the way Americans thing about the politics, perils, and pleasures of eating. Coming from The Penguin Press in 2013, Michael Pollan's newest book Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation--the story of our most trusted food expert's culinary education "Thoughtful, engrossing ... You're not likely to get a better explanation of exactly where your food comes from." -The New York Times Book Review "An eater's manifesto ... [Pollan's] cause is just, his thinking is clear, and his writing is compelling. Be careful of your dinner!" -The Washington Post "Outstanding... a wide-ranging invitation to think through the moral ramifications of our eating habits." --The New Yorker "If you ever thought 'what's for dinner' was a simple question, you'll change your mind after reading Pollan's searing indictment of today's food industry-and his glimpse of some inspiring alternatives.... I just loved this book so much I didn't want it to end." -The Seattle Times [via]
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Roots of Rebellion: Land and Hunger in Central Americaby Tom BarryISBN 0896082873 (0-89608-287-3)
Softcover, South End Press
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Seeds of Contention: World Hunger and the Global Controversy over Gm Cropsby Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Ebbe SchiolerISBN 0801868262 (0-8018-6826-2)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industryby Gail A. EisnitzISBN 1591024501 (1-59102-450-1)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, And Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.s. Meat Industry'Book summary:With powerful descriptions reminiscent of Upton Sinclair's masterpiece The Jungle, this book takes a shocking, frightening look at where our beef, poultry, and pork are "mass-produced." Photos. [via]
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Sparknotes the Jungleby Upton SinclairISBN 1586634100 (1-58663-410-0)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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They're today's most popular study guides-with everything you need to succeed in school. Written by Harvard students for students, since its inception SparkNotes" has developed a loyal community of dedicated users and become a major education brand. Consumer demand has been so strong that the guides have expanded to over 150 titles. SparkNotes'" motto is Smarter, Better, Faster because:
· They feature the most current ideas and themes, written by experts.
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And with everything covered--context; plot overview; character lists; themes, motifs, and symbols; summary and analysis, key facts; study questions and essay topics; and reviews and resources--you don't have to go anywhere else!
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Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Tableby Ruth ReichlISBN 0767903382 (0-7679-0338-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table'Book summary:New York Times restaurant critic Ruth Reichl shares lessons learned at the hands (and kitchen counters) of family members and friends throughout her life, from growing up with her taste-blind mother to the comfort of cream puffs while away at boarding school on "Mars" (Montreal seemed just as far away) to her most memorable meal, taken on a mountainside in Greece.
Her stories shine with the voices and recipes of those she has encountered on the way, such as her Aunt Birdie's maid and companion, Alice, who first taught Reichl both the power of cooking and how to make perfect apple dumplings; the family's mysterious patrician housekeeper, Mrs. Peavey, who always remembered to make extra pastry for the beef Wellington; Serafina, the college roommate with whom Reichl explored a time of protest and political and personal discovery; and, finally, cookbook author Marion Cunningham, who, after tales of her midlife struggles and transformation, gave Reichl the strength to overcome her own anxieties.
Reichl's wry and gentle humor pervades the book, and makes readers feel as if they're right at the table, laughing at one great story after another (and delighting in a gourmet meal at the same time, of course). Reichl's narrative of a life lived and remembered through the palate will stay with the reader long after the last page is turned. [via]
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An Unnatural Order: Why We Are Destroying the Planet and Each Otherby Jim MasonISBN 1590560817 (1-59056-081-7)
Softcover, Lantern Books
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Valuing Animals: Veterinarians and Their Patients in Modern Americaby Susan D. JonesISBN 0801871298 (0-8018-7129-8)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Valuing Animals: Veterinarians and Their Patients in Modern America'Book summary:Over the course of the twentieth century, the relationship between Americans and their domestic animals has changed dramatically. In the 1890s, pets were a luxury, horses were the primary mode of transport, and nearly half of all Americans lived or worked on farms. Today, the pet industry is a multibillion-dollar-a-year business, keeping horses has become an expensive hobby, and consumers buy milk and meat in pristine supermarkets. Veterinarians have been very much a part of these changes in human-animal relationships. Indeed, the development of their professionfrom horse doctor to medical scientistprovides an important perspective on these significant transformations in America's social, cultural, and economic history.
In Valuing Animals, Susan D. Jones, trained as both veterinarian and historian, traces the rise of veterinary medicine and its impact on the often conflicting ways in which Americans have assessed the utility and worth of domesticated creatures. She first looks at how the eclipse of the horse by motorized vehicles in the early years of the century created a crisis for veterinary education, practice, and research. In response, veterinarians intensified their activities in making the livestock industry more sanitary and profitable. Beginning in the 1930s, veterinarians turned to the burgeoning number of house pets whose sentimental value to their owners translated into new market opportunities. Jones describes how vets overcame their initial doubts about the significance of this market and began devising new treatments and establishing appropriate standards of care, helping to create modern pet culture.
Americans today value domestic animals for reasons that typically combine exploitation and companionship. Both controversial and compelling, Valuing Animals uncovers the extent to which veterinary medicine has shapedand been shaped bythis contradictory attitude.
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The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matterby Peter SingerISBN 157954889X (1-57954-889-X)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter'Book summary:A thought-provoking look at how what we eat profoundly affects all living things--and how we can make more ethical food choices[via]
Five Principles for Making Conscientious Food Choices
1. Transparency: We have the right to know how our food is produced.
2. Fairness: Producing food should not impose costs on others.
3. Humanity: Inflicting unnecessary suffering on animals is wrong.
4. Social Responsibility: Workers are entitled to decent wages and working conditions.
5. Needs: Preserving life and health justifies more than other desires.
Peter Singer, the groundbreaking ethicist who "may be the most controversial philosopher alive" (The New Yorker), now sets his critical sights on the food we buy and eat: where it comes from, how it's produced, and whether it was raised humanely. Teaming up once again with attorney Jim Mason, his coauthor on the acclaimed Animal Factories, Singer explores the impact our food choices have on humans, animals, and the environment.
In The Way We Eat, Singer and Mason examine the eating habits of three American families with very different diets. They track down the sources of each family's food to probe the ethical issues involved in its production and marketing. What kinds of meat are most humane to eat? Is "organic" always better? Wild fish or farmed? Recognizing that not all of us will become vegetarians, Singer and Mason offer ways to make the best food choices. As they point out: "You can be ethical without being fanatical."More editions of The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter:
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What to Eatby Marion NestleISBN 0865477388 (0-86547-738-8)
Softcover, North Point Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What to Eat'Book summary:Since its publication in hardcover last year, Marion Nestle's What to Eat has become the definitive guide to making healthy and informed choices about food. Praised as "radiant with maxims to live by" in The New York Times Book Review and "accessible, reliable and comprehensive" in The Washington Post, What to Eat is an indispensable resource, packed with important information and useful advice from the acclaimed nutritionist who "has become to the food industry what . . . Ralph Nader [was] to the automobile industry" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch).How we choose which foods to eat is growing more complicated by the day, and the straightforward, practical approach of What to Eat has been praised as welcome relief. As Nestle takes us through each supermarket section--produce, dairy, meat, fish--she explains the issues, cutting through foodie jargon and complicated nutrition labels, and debunking the misleading health claims made by big food companies. With Nestle as our guide, we are shown how to make wise food choices--and are inspired to eat sensibly and nutritiously.Now in paperback, What to Eat is already a classic--"the perfect guidebook to help navigate through the confusion of which foods are good for us" (USA Today). [via]
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