Food For Thought

A list of can't-put-down, provocative reads to challenge and nourish your starving brain with "food for thought." 

From the farmers' bookshelves:

• "The Unsettling of America" by Wendell Berry
• "Sharing the Harvest: A Citizen's Guide to Community Supported Agriculture" by E. Henderson
• "Coming Home to Eat" by Gary Paul Nabhan
• "In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan
• "Confronting Consumption" editied by Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, and Ken Conca
• "Fast Food Nation:  The Dark Side of the American Meal" by Eric Schlosser
• "Eating in the Dark:  America's Experiemtn with Genetically Engineered Food" by Kathleen Hart
• "Beyond Beef:  The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture" by Jeremy Rifkin
• "Slaughterhouse Blues" by Donald Stull and Michael Broadway
• "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
• "The Fatal Harvest Reader:  The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture" edited by Andrew Kimbrell
• "Free Lunch" by David Cay Johnston
• "The Way into Tikkun Olam:  Repairing the World" by Elliot N. Dorff
• "Against the Grain:  How Agriculture Has Hijacked America" by Richard Manning
• "Beyond Oil" by Kenneth S. Deffeyes
• "The Long Emergency" by James Howard Kunstler
• "The Last Harvest" by Paul Raeburn
• "What Are People For?" by Wendell Berry
• "The Age of Access" by Jeremy Rifkin
• "The Botany of Desire" by Michael Pollan
• "Harvest for Hope:  A Guide to Mindful Eating" by Jane Goodall
• "Outgrowing the Earth" by Lester R. Brown