Food in Fiction & Nonfiction

Economics

Profiting from the World's Economic Crisis: Finding Investment Opportunities by Tracking Global Market Trends
Bud Conrad     330 CON

Lost and Found: Unexpected Revelations About Food and Money
Geneen Roth     332.024 ROT

Production

Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All
Oran B. Hesterman    338.1 HES

Feeding People Is Easy
Colin Tudge    338.1 TUD

Food, Inc.: How Industrial Food Is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-- and What You Can Do About It
Karl Weber, editor    338.19 FOO

The Town That Food Saved: How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food
Ben Hewitt    338.19 HEW

Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do about It
Anna Lappé     338.19 LAP

Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know
Robert Paarlberg    338.19 PAA

Encyclopedia of Organic, Sustainable, and Local Food
Leslie A. Duram, editor    REF 338.1903 ENC

The World According to Monsanto: Pollution, Corruption, and the Control of the World's Food Supply
Marie-Monique Robin    338.763 ROB

Social Services

Malnutrition
Margaret Haerens, book editor    362.19639 MAL

Dinner at the New Gene Café: How Genetic Engineering Is Changing What We Eat, How We Live, and the Global Politics of Food
Bill Lambrecht    363.192 LAM

American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do About It)
Jonathan Bloom    363.7288 BLO

Food
Laura K. Egendorf, editor    363.8 FOO

Food Justice
Robert Gottlieb and Anupama Joshi    363.8 GOT

Food Rebellions! : Crisis and the Hunger for Justice
Eric Holt-Giménez and Raj Patel    363.8 HOL

The End of Food
Paul Roberts    363.8 ROB

Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal
Tristram Stuart    363.8 STU

Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty
Roger Thurow     363.8 THU

General Customs

Food for Thought: Essays on Eating and Culture
Lawrence C. Rubin, editor     394.12 FOO

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, Regional, and Traditional: From the Lost WPA files
Mark Kurlansky, editor     394.12 FOO

The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table
Tracie McMillan     394.12 MCM

Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly
James E. McWilliams     394.12 MCW

The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World
John Robbins     394.12 ROB

An Edible History of Humanity
Tom Standage     394.1209 STA

Medical Science

Sickly Sweet: Sugar, Refined Carbohydrate, Addiction and Global Obesity
Simon Thornley and Hayden McRobbie     614.5THO

Food, Medicine and the Quest for Good Health: Nutrition, Medicine and Culture
Nancy N. Chen     615.854 CHE

Food Cures: Breakthrough Nutritional Prescriptions for Everything from Colds to Cancer
Marianne Wait, editor     615.854 FOO

Agriculture

From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know About Agriculture
Gary Holthaus     630 HOL

The Urban Food Revolution: Changing the Way We Feed Cities
Peter Ladner     630.91732 LAD

A World Without Bees
Alison Benjamin and Brian McCallum     638.15 BEN

Home Economics

Homesteading: A Backyard Guide to: Growing Your Own Food, Canning, Keeping Chickens, Generating Your Own Energy, Crafting, Herbal Medicine, and More
Abigail R. Gehring, editor     640 HOM

Reclaiming Our Food: How the Grassroots Food Movement Is Changing the Way We Eat
Tanya Denckla Cobb      641 COB

An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace
Tamar Adler     641.013 ADL

Best Food Writing 2011
Holly Hughes, editor     641.013 BES

Cuisine and Culture: A History of Food and People
Linda Civitello     641.3 CIV

Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating
Jane Goodall      641.3 GOO

Frugavore: How to Grow Organic, Buy Local, Waste Nothing, and Eat Well
Arabella Forge      641.302 FOR

Eat Where You Live: How to Find and Enjoy Local and Sustainable Food No Matter Where You Live
Lou Bendrick     641.31 BEN

Eat Local: Simple Steps to Enjoy Real, Healthy & Affordable Food
Jasia Steinmetz     641.31 STE

Milk: A Local and Global History
Deborah Valenze     641.371 VAL

Eating Local: The Cookbook Inspired by America's Farmers
Sur La Table      641.5 EAT

In the Green Kitchen: Techniques to Learn by Heart
Alice Waters    641.563 WAT

Cooking with Italian Grandmothers: Recipes and Stories from Tuscany to Sicily
Jessica Theroux      641.5945 THE

Food Technology

Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil
Tom Mueller     664.362 MUE

Memoir

The Gastronomy of Marriage: A Memoir of Food and Love
Michelle Maisto     394.12 MAI

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Anthony Bourdain     641.5 BOU

My Life in France
Julia Child     641.5 CHI

The Art of Eating in: How I Learned to Stop Spending and Love the Stove
Cathy Erway      641.5 ERW

Last House: Reflections, Dreams, and Observations 1943-1991
M.F.K. Fisher     641 FIS

Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India
Madhur Jaffrey     641.5 JAF

Fried Butter: A Food Memoir
Abe Opincar     641.5 OPI      

The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America
Michael Ruhlman     641.5 RUH

The Seventh Daughter: My Culinary Journey from Beijing to San Francisco
Cecilia Chiang       641.5951 CHI

A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family
Cheryl Lu-lien Tan     641.595957 TAN

A Moveable Feast: Life-Changing Food Adventures Around the World
Don George, editor     910.4 MOV

Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy
Michael Tucker      914.5651 TUC

Stealing Buddha's Dinner: A Memoir
Bich Minh Nguyen     977.456092 NGU

Life, on the Line: A Chef's Story of Chasing Greatness, Facing Death, and Redefining the Way We Eat
Grant Achatz      B ACHATZ

Rachael Ray: Food Entrepreneur
Dennis Abrams     JB RAY

Fiction

The Sugar Queen
Sarah Addison Allen   FIC ALLEN

The Grave Gourmet
Alexander Campion   FIC CAMPION

Mystery in Prior's Ford
Evelyn Hood   FIC HOOD

Comfort Food
Kate Jacobs   FIC JACOBS

Edible Stories: A Novel in Sixteen Parts
Mark Kurlansky   FIC KURLANSKY

150 Pounds
Kate Rockland   FIC ROCKLAND

Food Mysteries in Series

Isis Crawford     (Catered Mysteries with Recipes)    

Diane Mott Davidson     (Goldy Schulz)

Joanne Fluke     (Hannah Swensen Series)

Kerry Greenwood     (Corinna Chapman)

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