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  • Sowing the Seeds of Victory

    American Gardening Programs of World War I

    Sometimes, to move forward, we must look back. Gardening activity during American involvement in World War I (1917-1919) is vital to understanding current work in agriculture and food systems. The origins of the American Victory Gardens of World War II lie in the Liberty Garden program during World War I. This book examines the National War Garden Commission, the United States School Garden Army, ... Leer más

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    On Farming, Food, and Love

    From a “graceful, luminous writer with an eye for detail” (Minneapolis Star Tribune), this riveting memoir explores a year on a sustainable farm.When Kristin Kimball left New York City to interview a dynamic young farmer named Mark, her world changed. On an impulse, she shed her city self and started a new farm with him on five hundred acres near Lake Champlain. The Dirty Life is the captivating ... Leer más

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  • Plenty

    Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet: A Cookbook

    The remarkable, amusing and inspiring adventures of a Canadian couple who make a year-long attempt to eat foods grown and produced within a 100-mile radius of their apartment.When Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon learned that the average ingredient in a North American meal travels 1,500 miles from farm to plate, they decided to launch a simple experiment to reconnect with the people and places that ... Leer más

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  • The New Farm

    Our Ten Years on the Front Lines of the Good Food Revolution

    de Brent Preston ...
    This "must-read" memoir of human-scale agriculture offers an insider's view of today's food system by a leading voice in sustainable farming (Daniel Boulud).After years of working at the ends of the earth in human rights and development, Brent Preston and his wife were die-hard city dwellers. But when their second child arrived, the shine came off urban living. In 2003 they bought a hundred acres ... Leer más

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  • Project Animal Farm

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    Sonia Faruqi had an Ivy League degree and a job on Wall Street. But when the banking industry collapsed, she found herself on a small organic dairy farm that would change her life for the better, although it didn't seem that way in the beginning.First, she had to come to grips with cows shocked into place, cannibal chickens, and "free range" turkeys that went nowhere. But there were bright lights ... Leer más

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  • Flowers in the Blood

    The Story of Opium

    de Jeff Goldberg ...
    The ultimate book on the incredible, and complex history of opium throughout the world.Flowers in the Blood lifts the veil of mystery that has surrounded opium down through the ages. Inside, discover:Why a three-thousand-year-old statue of a Greek goddess was crowned with poppiesThe formulas for Hippocrates’s ancient opium remediesWhy the Islamic councils of the wise vilified hashish but venerated ... Leer más

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  • Dorothy’s story (Individual stories from THE SWEETHEARTS, Book 4)

    Series Libro 4 - Individual stories from THE SWEETHEARTS
    This is Dorothy’s story, one of five stories extracted from THE SWEETHEARTS.Whether in wartime or peace, tales of love, laughter and hardship from the girls in the Rowntrees factory in Yorkshire.“‘Every Friday when we got paid, they used to come round with your pay packet and a tin for charity and you’d put a penny in, and they’d go round all the machines for people to put money in. That was a ... Leer más

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  • Datos de composición de alimentos

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    Los datos de composición de los alimentos son esenciales para diversos fines en numerosas esferas de actividad. El establecimiento de una red mundial de bases de datos de composición de alimentos compatibles es una tarea importante que requiere un enfoque sistemático tanto para la obtención como para la compilación de datos de buena calidad. Los Datos de composición de alimentos se prepararon como ... Leer más

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  • Foodopoly

    The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America

    "A meticulously researched tour de force" on politics, big agriculture, and the need to go beyond farmers' markets to find fixes ( Publishers Weekly).Wenonah Hauter owns an organic family farm that provides healthy vegetables to hundreds of families as part of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement. Yet, as a leading healthy-food advocate, Hauter believes that the local food movement ... Leer más

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  • Nutritionism

    The Science and Politics of Dietary Advice

    Series series Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
    Popularized by Michael Pollan in his best-selling In Defense of Food, Gyorgy Scrinis's concept of nutritionism refers to the reductive understanding of nutrients as the key indicators of healthy food—an approach that has dominated nutrition science, dietary advice, and food marketing. Scrinis argues this ideology has narrowed and in some cases distorted our appreciation of food quality, such that ... Leer más

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  • What's Wrong with Fat?

    The United States, we are told, is facing an obesity epidemic-a "battle of the bulge" of not just national, but global proportions-that requires drastic and immediate action. Experts in the media, medical science, and government alike are scrambling to find answers. What or who is responsible for this fat crisis, and what can we do to stop it? Abigail Saguy argues that these fraught and frantic ... Leer más

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  • The Land of the Five Flavors

    A Cultural History of Chinese Cuisine

    Traducido por Karen Margolis ...
    Series series Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
    Renowned sinologist Thomas O. Höllmann tracks the growth of food culture in China from its earliest burial rituals to today's Western fast food restaurants, mapping Chinese cuisine's geographical variations and local customs, indigenous factors and foreign influences, trade routes, and ethnic associations. Höllmann details the food practices of major Chinese religions and the significance of ... Leer más

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