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Bibliography: Manifestos, Journalism, Practical Guides, Memoirs, etc.

Essays, manifestos, journalism, practical guides, and memoirs against conventional industrial food systems in one way or another, in many cases from a local or place-based perspective ("local food," "locavore," etc.)

Bendrick, Lou. 2008. Eat Where You Live: How to find and enjoy local and sustainable food no matter where you live. Seattle, WA: Skipstone.

Berry, Wendell. 1972. A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural. San Diego: Harcourt and Brace.

Berry, Wendell. 1977. The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.

Berry, Wendell. 2009. Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food. Berkeley: Counterpoint.

Gussow, Joan Dye. 2001. This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green.

Kingsolver, Barbara. 2007. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. New York, NY: HarperCollins.

Lyson, Thomas A. 2004. Civic Agriculture: Reconnecting Farm, Food, and Community. Medford, MA: Tufts University Press.

McWilliams, James E. 2009. Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company.

Midkiff, Ken. 2004. The Meat You Eat: How Corporate Farming Has Endangered America's Food Supply. New York: St. Martin's.

Nabhan, Gary Paul. 2002. Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods. New York: W.W. Norton.

Norberg-Hodge, Helena, Todd Merrifield, and Steven Gorelick. 2002. Bringing the Food Economy Home: Local Alternatives to Global Agribusiness. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian.

Patel, Raj. 2007. Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System. Brooklyn, NY: Melville House.

Petrini, Carlo. 2003 [2001]. The Case for Taste. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

Petrini, Carlo. 2007 [2005]. Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, and Fair. New York, NY: Rizzoli.

Petrini, Carlo and Gigi Padovani. 2006 [2005]. Slow Food Revolution: A New Culture for Eating and Living. New York, NY: Rizzoli.

Pollan, Michael. 2006. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. New York: Penguin.

Pollan, Michael. 2008. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. New York: Penguin.

Salatin, Joel. 2007. Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front. Swoope, VA: Polyface.

Schlosser, Eric. 2002. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. New York: Perennial (HarperCollins).

Singer, Peter and Jim Mason. 2006. The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter. [n.l.]: Rodale.

Smith, Alisa, and J.B. MacKinnon. 2007. Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally. New York: Harmony.

Weber, Karl. 2009. Food, Inc., A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer—And What You Can Do About It. New York: Public Affairs.

Winne, Mark. 2008. Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty. Boston, MA: Beacon.

Blogs

Pasture Raised and Grass Fed on Stony Brook Farm: http://stonybrookfarm.wordpress.com/
(Schoharie philosopher-farmer Bob Comis shares his experiences and ideas aimed at contributing to a future of farming for greater social and environmental justice.)


(Content from EricBall's personal web site.)