Summary: Fresh celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet. Among others, Fresh features urban farmer and activist Will Allen, sustainable farmer and entrepreneur Joel Salatin, and supermarket owner David Ball.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Ripple Effect Productions 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FREWaters, Alice
Summary: "From chef and food activist Alice Waters, an impassioned plea for a radical reconsideration of the way each and every one of us cooks and eats"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.013 WATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.013 WATSummary: A character-driven documentary and cooking series that takes viewers inside the life of Chef Vivian Howard, who, with her husband Ben Knight, left the big city to open a fine dining restaurant in small-town Eastern North Carolina.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CHEBatali, Mario
Summary: "Over two years in the making, with Batali searching for truly delicious dishes from all corners of the US, this definitive cookbook features the best America has to offer. With over 250 simple recipes celebrating the treasures of the state fairs and the dishes of the local rotary clubs and ethnic groups. Batali has interpreted these regional gems with the same excitement and passion that he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Life & Style 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5973 BATPatterson, Eric
Summary: Cooking is more than putting a list of ingredients in a bowl and mixing. True cooking takes place when we follow the local seasons, listening in on their rhythms and following their leads toward that which sustains the earth, the farmer, the cook, the guest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spirituality & Health Books 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 PATCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 PATPerry, Julien
Summary: "Seattle Cooks is an exciting collection of 80 signature dishes from 40 of the city's best restaurants. Featuring crowd-pleasing small plates, vibrant salads, comforting mains, delectable desserts, and much more, this expansive cookbook highlights a vibrant culinary scene that makes Seattle one of the best food cities in the country. A never-before-published recipe for Dahlia' Lounge's iconic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Figure 1 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59797 PERTrue, Margo.
Summary: Draws on "Sunset magazine's" One-Block Diet blog to instruct readers on how to raise and produce all ingredients for numerous "from-scratch" meals, providing plans that include a sustainable vegetable garden, backyard bee hives, and a chicken roost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2011
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Summary: Locally sourced, seasonal, "clean" ingredients and nose-to-tail cooking are nothing new to Sean Sherman, the Oglala Lakota chef and founder of The Sioux Chef. In his first cookbook, Sherman shares his approach to creating boldly-seasoned foods that are vibrant, healthful, at once elegant and easy. Sherman dispels outdated notions of Native American fare -- no fry bread or Indian tacos here --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 SHEAckerman-Leist, Philip
Summary: Droves of people have turned to local food as a way to retreat from our broken industrial food system. From rural outposts to city streets, they are sowing, growing, selling, and eating food produced close to home--and they are crying out for agricultural reform. All this has made "local food" into everything form a movement buzzword to the newest darling of food trendsters. But now it's time...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Post Carbon Institute 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.19 ACKSummary: Documented is the story of family farms who were providing healthy foods to their communities and were forced to stop by agents of misguided government bureaucracies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Passion River Films 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FARSuszko, Marilou K.
Summary: "The Locavore's Kitchen invites readers to savor homegrown foods that come from the garden, the farm stand, or local farmers markets through cooking and preserving the freshest ingredients. In more than 200 recipes that highlight seasonal flavors, Marilou K. Suszko inspires cooks to keep local flavors in the kitchen year round. She helps readers learn what to look for when buying seasonal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ohio University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.302 SUSForge, Arabella.
Summary: Shares advice on how to have a healthy diet while making frugal choices, providing recipes and coverage of everything from learning cooking techniques and selecting meat to stocking a pantry and making the most of farmers' markets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Pub. 2011