Recommended Resources

The following is a list of books, cookbooks, movies, and web resources that I have read over the years and highly recommend for anyone wanting to learn more about eating (and living) locally, seasonally, and sustainably.

If you have a resource to recommend, please shoot me an e-mail at rhubarbandhoney (at) yahoo (dot) com, and let me know what it is!

Recommended Books:

• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
• Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food by Wendell Berry and Michael Pollan
• Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories From the Local Food Front by Joel Salatin
• Farmer Jane: Women Changing The Way We Eat by Temra Costa
• Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
• Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health by Marion Nestle
• Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual by Michael Pollan and Maira Kalman
• Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food by Paul Greenberg
• Hope’s Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe
• In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
• Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet by Alisa Smith and J.B. Mackinnon
• Real Food: What to Eat and Why by Nina Planck
• Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety by Marion Nestle
• The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer by Joel Salatin
• Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, and Fair by Carlo Petrini
• Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System by Raj Patel
• Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit by Barry Estabrook

Recommended Cookbooks:

• American Pie: My Search for the Perfect Pizza by Peter Reinhart
• The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution by Alice Water
• Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois
• Artisan Cheese Making at Home: Techniques & Recipes for Mastering World-Class Cheeses by Mary Karlin
• Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving by Judi Kingry
• Beer Craft: A Simple Guide to Making Great Beer by William Bostwick and Jessi Rymill
• The Bread Baker’s Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread by Peter Reinhart
• Canning for a New Generation: Bold, Fresh Flavors for the Modern Pantry by Liana Krissoff
• Cooking from the Farmers’ Market (Williams-Sonoma) by Jodi Liano
• Cooking in the Moment: A Year of Seasonal Recipes by Andrea Reusing
• Earth to Table: Seasonal Recipes from an Organic Farm by Jeff Crump
• Eating Local: The Cookbook Inspired by America’s Farmers by Sur La Table
• Edible: A Celebration of Local Foods by Tracey Ryder and Carole Topalia
• The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America’s Most Imaginative Chefs by Karen Page
• The Food Matters Cookbook: 500 Revolutionary Recipes for Better Living by Mark Bittman
• Good Meat: The Complete Guide to Sourcing and Cooking Sustainable Meat by Deborah Krasner
• Home Cheese Making: Recipes for 75 Delicious Cheeses by Ricki Carroll
• Home Made by Yvette van Boven
• Homemade Cheese: Recipes for 50 Cheeses from Artisan Cheesemakers by Janet Hurst
• The Joy of Pickling: 250 Flavor-Packed Recipes for Vegetables and More from Garden or Market by Linda Ziedrich
• The King Arthur Flour Baker’s Companion: The All-Purpose Baking Cookbook by King Arthur Flour
• King Arthur Flour Whole Grain Baking: Delicious Recipes Using Nutritious Whole Grains by King Arthur Flour
• Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America’s Farmers’ Markets by Deborah Madison
• Lucid Food: Cooking for an Eco-Conscious Life by Louisa Shafia
• Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats by Sally Fallon
• Peter Reinhart’s Artisan Breads Every Day by Peter Reinhart
• Peter Reinhart’s Whole Grain Breads: New Techniques, Extraordinary Flavor by Peter Reinhart
• Plenty: Vibrant Recipes from London’s Ottolenghi by Yotam Ottolenghi and Jonathan Lovekin
• Put ‘em Up!: A Comprehensive Home Preserving Guide for the Creative Cook, from Drying and Freezing to Canning and Pickling by Sherri Brooks Vinton
• Sunday Suppers at Lucques: Seasonal Recipes from Market to Table by Suzanne Goin and Teri Gelber
• Super Natural Cooking: Five Delicious Ways to Incorporate Whole and Natural Foods into Your Cooking by Heidi Swanson
• Super Natural Every Day: Well-loved Recipes from My Natural Foods Kitchen by Heidi Swanson
• Tender: A Cook and His Vegetable Patch by Nigel Slater

Recommended Watching:

• DIRT! The Movie
• Fast Food Nation
• Food Inc.
• Foodmatters
• Forks Over Knives
• Fresh
• The Future of Food
• King Corn
• Lunch Line
• Mad City Chickens
• Super Size Me
• Vanishing of the Bees

Recommended Web Resources:

• Blue Ocean Institute’s Seafood Guide
• Cooking Up A Story
• Eat Local Challenge
• Eat Well Guide’s Cultivating the Web
• Food & Water Watch
• Food Democracy Now
• Food Routes
• Local Harvest.org
• Mother Earth News
• Sustainable Table
• Slow Food USA