Waters, 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"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.013 WATGumpert, David E.
Summary: "Do Americans have the right to privately obtain the foods of our choice from farmers, neighbors, and local producers, in the same way our grandparents and great grandparents used to do?Yes, say a growing number of people increasingly afraid that the mass-produced food sold at supermarkets is excessively processed, tainted with antibiotic residues and hormones, and lacking in important...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.19 GUMThoreau, Henry David
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: [Empire Books] 2011
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Singer, Peter
Summary: An investigation of the food choices people make and practices of the food producers who create this food for us leading to a discussion of how we might put more ethics into our shopping carts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 178 SINBauer, David G.
Summary: From the Publisher: Revisions and additions reflect the enormous changes and challenges that have occurred in the grants marketplace since the last edition. The exhibits and tables have been updated to reflect advances in technology and computer usage. Over half of the book is new to enhance the reader's ability to compete in the current grants marketplace-and to avoid the failure and wasted...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Council on Education 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.1522 BAUSuszko, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ohio University Press 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.302 SUSSherman, Sean
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 --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 SHECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Post Carbon Institute 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.19 ACKGuilbeault, Nina
Summary: A Harvard-trained sociologist (and vegan), exploring the history of the vegan movement and its present-day tensions, grapples with the most fundamental questions of all: Is there a truly ethical way to eat?, which results in an eye-opening portrait of how social change happens, with profound implications for our plates--and our planet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Wicks, Maris
Summary: Explores coral reef ecosystems, detailing the organisms that live within the reefs, their importance in the ocean ecological system as a whole, and the scientific and medical advancements developed from coral reefs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577.5 WICCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Nature Get WicksMihaly, Christy
Summary: "The United Nations supports a compelling solution to world hunger: eat insects! Explore the vast world of unexpected foods that may help solve the global hunger crisis. Weeds, wild plants, invasive and feral species, and bugs are all food for thought. Learn about the nutritional value of various plant and animal species; visit a cricket farm; try a recipe for dandelion pancakes, kudzu salsa,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 613.2 MIHFelix, Rebecca
Summary: "Eating Ethically helps readers trace the history of ethical eating and human ways of treating animals, explore the science behind it, and discuss controversies from an objective viewpoint. The title will engage readers on the topic and help them to weigh the pros and cons as they make their own food decisions."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2016
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J178 FELForge, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Pub. 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 FORPorcellino, John.
Summary: This graphic novel, narrated in Thoreau's own words, weaves together elements from Walden, Civil disobedience, Walking and Thoreau's journals to tell of his two years in the woods and the night he spent in jail for refusing to pay a poll tax.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2008
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 741.5 THOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 THOLaufer, Peter
Summary: "After eating some suspect "organic" walnuts that he was shocked to find were produced in Kazakhstan, veteran journalist Peter Laufer traces the origins of items in his pantry back to the source, learning how easily we are tricked into buying "organic" claims"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338 LAUClouston, Jennifer
Summary: "This comprehensive guide to floral embroidery features instructions for more than 80 embroidery stitches and includes more than 400 stitch combinations to create beautiful flowers, stems, leaves, twigs, and more"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: C&T Publishing 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Roker, Al
Summary: "A gripping new history celebrating the remarkable heroes of the Johnstown Flood--the deadliest flood in U.S. history--from NBC host and legendary weather authority Al Roker. Central Pennsylvania, May 31, 1889: After a deluge of rain--nearly a foot in less than twenty-four hours--swelled the Little Conemaugh River, panicked engineers watched helplessly as swiftly rising waters threatened to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 974 ROKCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 974.8 ROKKelleher, Katy
Summary: In these deeply researched essays, a Paris Review contributor blends science, history, and memoir to explore human obsession with gorgeous things, exposing the fraught histories of makeup, silk, jewels, perfume, and other objects, helping readers to ethically partake in the beauty of the world around them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 111 KELScott, Brett
Summary: A monetary anthropologist examines how the drive to create a cashless digital money empire could lead to dire consequences for our civil liberties and create a dangerous nexus of Big Finance and Big Tech.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.4 SCOBerry, Wendell
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630.973 BERGreenberg, Paul
Summary: Author Paul Greenberg uncovers the tragic unraveling of the nation's seafood supply--telling the surprising story of why Americans stopped eating from their own waters. In 2005, the United States imported nearly twice as much seafood as twenty years earlier. Bizarrely, during that same period, our seafood exports quadrupled. Greenberg examines New York oysters, Gulf shrimp, and Alaskan salmon...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.956 GRECobb, Tanya Denckla
Summary: From Community GroundWorks in Madison, Wisconsin, to Greensgrow Farm in eastern Philadelphia, readers will learn about the motivating vision and people behind each organization. They will also find advice and guidance on everyday issues such as distribution, working with at-risk populations, fostering community, providing therapeutic assistance, and building the infrastructure to maintain new...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Pub. 2011