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[http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R905250900 Mark Kurlansky] discusses his new book, "The Food of a Younger Land." It examines the diversity and variety of pre-war American cuisine. Using abandoned documents from the Federal Writers Project, Kurlansky looks at a forgotten America where food varied greatly from city-to-city and state-to-state. (audio interview 4/09). He has also written books on salt and cod. | [http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R905250900 Mark Kurlansky] discusses his new book, "The Food of a Younger Land." It examines the diversity and variety of pre-war American cuisine. Using abandoned documents from the Federal Writers Project, Kurlansky looks at a forgotten America where food varied greatly from city-to-city and state-to-state. (audio interview 4/09). He has also written books on salt and cod. | ||
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Revision as of 14:58, 20 June 2009
This category relates to food production and consumption
Websites
Environmental Defense Fund research on food and farm policies.
Grist Magazine food section, including Victual Reality, a food news blog, also ones on growing and cooking.
Articles
A personal essay about being a family farmer Wired Magazine's excellent look at current status and future of food
Alice Waters and Friends, "Slow Food Nation" in The Nation magazine 2006.
Marion Nestle on sugar from What to Eat 2006
"The Hidden Cost of Cheap Chicken" from The Way We Eat by Peter Singer and Jim Mason 2006. Interview with Singer.
On meat and milk from The Way We Eat by Peter Singer and Jim Mason 2006
Michael Pollan's excellent NYT Letter to the next president.
Books
NPR interview with Dan Koeppel, author of Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World, gives us a primer on the expansive history — and the endangered future — of this seedless, sexless fruit.
Michael Pollan is the author of a number of brilliant books on food. TEDtalk video, author of Omnivore's Dilemma (Ch 1. online free). Video of debate with John Mackey, founder of Whole Foods Video link (Realplayer required). Their correspondence, which has explored such issues as organic and local food, animal agriculture, and the role of Whole Foods, is available at Whole Foods site and Michael Pollan site. His new book is In Defense of Food see also audio interview on NPR 12/24/08 and short excerpt
Fastfood Nation by Eric Schlosser S&E Stacks TX945.3 .S2968 2001 Google books
Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply by Vandana Shiva McH Stacks HD9000.5 .S454 2000 Links
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver, about being a localvore
History of agribusiness in California
What to Eat Marion Nestle
Moveable Feasts : From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat / Sarah Murray New York : St. Martin's Press, 2007 McH Stacks - HE595.F6 M87 2007
Mark Kurlansky discusses his new book, "The Food of a Younger Land." It examines the diversity and variety of pre-war American cuisine. Using abandoned documents from the Federal Writers Project, Kurlansky looks at a forgotten America where food varied greatly from city-to-city and state-to-state. (audio interview 4/09). He has also written books on salt and cod.
Cool Cuisine - Taking the Bite out of Global Warming Google book
Videos
Food Inc. 2009 Trailer Related interview with Pollan (video 10 min)
"The Garden" trailer (director Scott Hamilton Kennedy, the Academy Award winning documentary). The Garden is the unflinching look at the struggle between urban farmers and the City of Los Angeles and a powerful developer who wants to evict them and build warehousesinterview/excerpts
Ann Cooper calls herself a renegade lunch lady, works in Berkekeley CA (TEDtalk video). A good overview/introduction to food issues.
Mark Bittman weighs in on what's wrong with the way we eat now (too much meat, too few plants; too much fast food, too little home cooking), and why it's putting the entire planet at risk.
The Future of Food c2004 Film & Music DVD2936 (88 min.) In-depth investigation into unlabeled genetically-modified foods which have become increasingly prevalent in grocery stores. Unravels the complex web of market and political forces that are changing the nature of what we eat.
King Corn Link UCSC McHenry DVD6291
"Ian and Curt, best friends from college on the East Coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the perverse and perplexing food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat, how we farm, and the stuff we're really made of"
Supersize Me DVD2447 Includes interview with Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, and other interviews
The Real Dirt on Farmer John, a fanciful tale or organic agriculture
The Meatrix Brilliant and funny animation
Specific Foods
Bananas
Breakfast of Biodiversity : The Truth About Rain Forest Destruction / by John Vandermeer and Ivette Perfecto ; foreword by Vandana Shiva Oakland, Calif. : Institute for Food and Development Policy, c1995 S&E Stacks SD414.T76 V36 1995 c.3 Online Includes bananas.
NPR interview with Dan Koeppel, author of Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World, gives us a primer on the expansive history — and the endangered future — of this seedless, sexless fruit.
See Tucker in course reader
Coffee
Black Gold Video on Coffee Excerpt
Nell Newman, Founder of Newman's Own Organics and Santa Cruz local interviewed by Josh Kornbluth (iTunes podcast video)
Uncommon Grounds: the History of Coffee and How it Transformed our World by Mark Pendergrast [(excerpts). UCSC S&E Stacks TX415 .P46 1999
City on a Hill (ucsc student newspaper) article on Steve Gliessman and CAN
Confronting the Coffee Crisis : fair trade, sustainable livelihoods and ecosystems in Mexico and Central America Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008 McH Stacks - HD9199.M62 C66 2008
Audio interview on shade grown coffee 1/09
Meat
The Meatrix, clever animated video
Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture J Rifkin 1993
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (see also reader) provides information on the meat industry and chemicals in the food.
Meat Market by Erik Marcus "... presents a thorough examination of animal agriculture's cruelties and its far-reaching social costs. Marcus then considers the discouraging progress made by the animal protection movement. He evaluates where the movement has gone wrong, and how its shortcomings could best be remedied." 2005 288 pp McH Stacks HV4764 .M22 2005
Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, And Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry 2006 new ed. S&E Stacks TS1963 .E37 1997 by Gail A. Eisnitz (San Rafael, CA), "winner of the Albert Schweitzer Medal for outstanding achievement in animal welfare, is the chief investigator for the Humane Farming Association."
Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry by Karen Davis.
Extensive report on agriculture's effect on environment, including livestock.
Audio
Luther Burbank invented over 800 varieties of plants — edible and ornamental. His Burbank potato is still the most widely grown commercial potato. Jane S. Smith, author of a new book about Burbank, describes his contributions to horticultural science and the food we eat.
Food History
Nikolay Vavilov, the Indiana Jones of Botany
Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine by Gary Paul Nabhan
The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov: The Story of Stalin's Persecution of One of the Great Scientists of the Twentieth Century by Peter Pringle audio interview
The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food--Before the National Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When the Nation's Food Was Seasonal by Mark Kurlansky audio interview
Articles in category "Food"
The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
