Summary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CHESummary: 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 FRETrue, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 TRUPerry, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Figure 1 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59797 PERBatali, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Life & Style 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5973 BATKochilas, Diane
Summary: "Diane Kochilas' new cookbook that brings the plant-based cuisine of Ikaria to your dinner table. Ikaria is an island in Greece where people live to a ripe old age, sometimes living well past 100. Diane Kochilas, host of the television series My Greek Table, is a daughter of Ikaria. The Ikaria Way is her latest cookbook and is filled with easy, contemporary recipes rooted in her background and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2024
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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.
Format: text
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
1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5 PATCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 PATSummary: Taproot Magazine is an ad-free, independent print publication celebrating food, farm, family, and craft. Our mission is to build and support the vibrant community of people participating in both the practical and fine arts, to craft handmade lives, by producing quality, unique, beautiful, positive, and heartfelt print media.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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7 available in Magazines - previous years, Call number: 2022-Issue 49 RefreshCall number: 2022-Issue 52 Savor
Call number: 2022-Issue 54 Commune
Call number: 2023-Issue 55 Lunar
Call number: 2023-Issue 57 Blue
Call number: 2023-Issue 58 Harvest
Call number: 2023-Issue 59 Stitch
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"--
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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 Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.013 WATSummary: What's wrong with enjoying the rich variety of foods that importers make available? Do the reported drawbacks of globalization mean that we should eat only locally grown food? How are Western food choices related to environmental problems and to developing-world farmers? This program explores those questions by studying agricultural practices in the United Kingdom and worldwide. Comparing...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Gumpert, 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.19 GUMGayeton, Douglas.
Summary: Educates, engages, and asks people to pay closer attention to how they eat, what they buy, and their responsibly for creating a healthier, safer food system in America.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 GAYSherman, 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 East Bay
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 SHESuszko, 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 SUSMihaly, 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
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 613.2 MIHSummary: 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 FARAngulo, Ryan
Contents: Pantry -- Salad & vegetables -- Fish & shellfish -- Birds & beasts -- Wine -- Cheese -- Brunch -- Baked -- Cocktails.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food Cook AnguloThompson, Kim
Summary: Caillou learns about locally grown food at a farmer's market.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chouette Pub. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CAIAckerman-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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.19 ACKForge, 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 FORRyder, Tracey.
Summary: A gorgeous full-color celebration of North America's local food heroes and traditions. Offers profiles of farmers, artisans, chefs, and organizations that are making a difference, and shares eighty seasonal recipes that highlight the very best local foods across the country.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2010
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5 RYDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5973 RYDBatali, Mario.
Summary: "Bestselling author and world-renown chef Mario Batali pays homage to the American farmer-from Maine to Los Angeles-in stories, photos, and recipes. AMERICA -- FARM TO TABLE: Simple, Delicious Recipes Celebrating Local Farmers Mario Batali, who knows the importance of ingredients to any amazing dish, sees farmers as the rock stars of the food world. In this new book he celebrates American...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Life & Style 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 BATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5973 BATBerry, Wendell
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630.973 BERBlessing, Anna H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Surrey Books 2012