The Mad Farmer Poems Wendell Berry Counterpoint, 2008             Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden And Your Neighborhood into a Community17 reviews Heather Coburn Flores Chelsea Green, 2006 Not a how to book, or is it + Wonderful Book + Harvesting a movement for food security, ecological sustainability and social justice! Anyone who picks up this book expecting to find a "How to" manual on converting your lawn into an edible garden will be disappointed. However, if you're looking for some fresh ideas on not only changing out your lawn for a garden mixed with a little permaculture, activism, optimism, and community ...             Field Guide to Produce: How to Identify, Select, and Prepare Virtually Every Fruit and Vegetable at the Market18 reviews Aliza Green Quirk Books, 2004 Produce book + Great Guide To Picking Produce + Field Guide to Produce This book is great. It has all the produce you can think of and the ones you can't and it tells you all you need to know about the way the food is grown. Wow Great book!!!             What to Eat52 reviews Marion Nestle North Point Press, 2007 "Eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits and vegetables, go easy on junk foods." + A must-have book. + A must have for your nutritional library + A Great Food Guide             Roast Chicken and Other Stories5 reviews Simon Hopkinson EBURY PRESS (RAND), 1999 Simon Hopkinson & Lindsey Bareham's Little Masterpiece + Wonderful ! + Delivered On Time + light and entertainting for light entertaining             Slice of Organic Life17 reviews DK Publishing, 2007 Serves up just that - "A Slice" of organic life, + Good Book on Natural Living Everyday+ + Work with nature, not against it + A nice "just getting started" book + Love this book             Field Guide to Seafood: How to Identify, Select, and Prepare Virtually Every Fish and Shellfish at the Market3 reviews Aliza Green Quirk Books, 2007 Good tool for buying seafood + portable knowledge + great reference I have purchased several books on seafood hoping to find one that is devoted to the basics of buying seafood (intended for the seafood challenged). This is the book I was searching for ! It describes the various varieties of fish and shellfish, gives alternate names for them, tells something ...             Food Fight: The Citizen's Guide to a Food and Farm Bill2 reviews Daniel Imhoff University of California Press, 2007 Farm Policy for Dummies (Like Me) + Food- a political opportunity Word of the day: "cornification." Cornification, in a nutshell, is the takeover of a diverse landscape by one mighty plant: corn. The "Effects of Cornification" graphic on page 17 of Dan Imhoff's new book shows the results: the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone, factory livestock farms, obesity, immigration ...             Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life286 reviews Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, ... HarperCollins, 2007 Don't ridicule the small gesture + Very informative, beautifully written + Animal, Vegetable, Miracle + If you want Truth and love stories...READ + Everything old is new again             The Santa Monica Farmers' Market Cookbook: Seasonal Foods, Simple Recipes and Stories from the Market and Farm4 reviews Amelia Saltsman Blenheim Press, 2007 Delicious, Accessible recipes + A treasure of a cookbook for every season! + "Custard from the Garden" This book is almost as good as actually trailing Amelia around the Santa Monica market to learn what's in peak season, and to be introduced to the farmers that grew it. Amelia's recipes are simple and direct; even fledgling cooks can use them with great success. I'd eat anything that Amelia's ...             In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto160 reviews Michael Pollan Penguin Press HC, The, 2008 Glad this is so popular + After Omnivore's Dilemma + Best information on nutrition I've read in years Pollan gives a pretty systematic overview of what's wrong with what we eat and how we can fix it. It's concise, it's well-informed, and it's open-minded. Everyone talks about how organic food or sustainable agriculture or whatever is good, but Pollan compiles it into an excellent essay.             Slow Food Nation's Come to the Table: The Slow Food Way of Living Modern Times, 2008             Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America's Farmers' Markets11 reviews Deborah Madison Broadway, 2008 Great Recipies and Wonderful Pictures + Much More Useful Than I Thought It Would Be + Great Cookbook! And really fun to read + Fabulous Resource for Local Cooking + Great Book for Farmers Market Neighbor. Very Good Read             The San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market Cookbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Impeccable Produce Plus ...4 reviews Peggy Knickerbocker, Christopher Hirsheimer Chronicle Books, 2006 Mouth-watering + Beautiful cookbook for vegetables + A must-have for Bay Area and beyond + a great resource             The Pleasures of Slow Food: Celebrating Authentic Traditions, Flavors, and Recipes5 reviews Corby Kummer Chronicle Books, 2002 Well-written (and beautiful) book on important movement + Very Good Essay on Slow Food. Little use as a cookbook + join slow food usa I think that "The Pleasures of Slow Food" is a remarkable book with something for everyone. You can enjoy the engaging stories of farmers, food artisans and cultural preservationists from around the world, written in Kummer's delightful manner. Alternatively you can relish in the sheer beauty of ...             Vegetable Harvest: Vegetables at the Center of the Plate20 reviews Patricia Wells William Morrow Cookbooks, 2007 Vegetables to feed the soul. + vegetable harvest; vegetables at the centre of the plate + Giving veggies their place + Vegetable Harvest             The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World158 reviews Michael Pollan Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2002 Who wouldn't love this book? + The Coevolution of Human Cultures and Domesticated Plants. + A fast read, well written, fascinating! + A Great Read + Such a good read for us beginners!             The San Diego Restaurant Cookbook: Recipes from America's Finest City1 review Ingrid Croce Waterside Productions, Inc., 2006 A little too much seafood This is a nice cookbook, but more for looks than for novice to close to chef status.....very hard and long recipes. The food looks great, but coming from the restaurants and with the list of restaurants, you may as well just fly there and visit the place and eat at them, than try to cook them.             Terra Madre: 1600 Food Communities Slow Food, 2007 This book describes 1,600 Food Communities in 150 countries: from the hatahata fishermen of Kitaura in Japan to the raisin producers of Herat in Afghanistan; from Ethiopian forest coffee pickers to Mexican vanilla growers. Farmers, shepherds, fishermen, pork butchers, vine-dressers...all people who embody a new idea of agriculture based on taste quality, sustainability and social justice. All ...             The New Farmers' Market: Farm-Fresh Ideas for Producers, Managers & Communities7 reviews Vance Corum, Marcie Rosenzweig, ... New World Publishing, 2005 The best of all the market books I've read! + Love, love, love this book! + Easy to Read and great info + Worth Every Dollar + Sell your produce!