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Lowe, Lindsey

Summary: Readers explore the cultures of India through its food in this creative collection of accessible recipes. From spice blends and curries to sweet treats, each recipe is broken down into simple, clear steps that often feature photographs to help readers visualize the cooking process. However, readers learn far more than just how to make traditional Indian dishes. They discover the importance of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 641.5954 LOW

Lowe, Lindsey.

Summary: Mexican food and the culture of its people are deeply connected. Readers explore this connection through insightful main text and fact boxes that highlight how geography, festivals, daily life, and food have been linked throughout Mexican history. Maps help readers visualize where certain ingredients come from, and colorful photographs depict Mexicans and the foods they enjoy in engaging...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 641.5972 LOW

Lowe, Lindsey

Summary: "Italian food is popular all over the world. Readers are able to try making their own versions of famous Italian dishes--from savory sauces to delicious desserts--with the help of this unique guide to Italian cooking. Clear, concise steps break down each recipe into manageable components, and helpful tips and safety information are also included for readers at a variety of levels of culinary...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 641.5945 LOW

Aronson, Marc

Summary: "A middle-grade nonfiction book cowritten by Marc Aronson and historian/food writer Dr. Paul Freedmand with contributors Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie, Tatum Willis, Amanda Palacios, and David Zheng. American food and, by extension, American identify is much broader than the phrase "as American as apple pie." In a series of meals that take readers from pre-1492 through today, the text explores...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 394.1 ARO

Elliott, Victoria Grace

Summary: "How did cheese happen? Who pickled the first pickle? Explore the history of innovative food in this non-fiction graphic novel filled with facts, legends, and recipes. Have you ever wondered how some of our favorite foods came to be? How was cheese created and who realized it belonged on everything? Was soda always meant to be a drink? A team of whimsical food sprites are excited to show you...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: RH Graphic 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 641.3 ELL

Bittman, Mark

Summary: "From hunting and gathering to GMOs and ultraprocessed foods, this expansive tour of human history rewrites the story of our species-and points the way to a better future"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.1 BIT

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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 394.1 BIT

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food Bittman 2021

Hartwig, Dallas.

Summary: An outline for a clear, balanced, sustainable plan to change eating habits forever. Over the last three years, the Hartwigs' underground Whole30 program has quietly led tens of thousands of people to weight loss, improved quality of life and a healthier relationship with food.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Victory Belt Pub. 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 HAR

Clendenan, Megan

Summary: "Part of the nonfiction Orca Timeline series, with photographs and illustrations throughout, this book examines the innovative ways humanity grows, finds and eats food."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2024

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Siegel, Matt

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Summary: "Is Italian olive oil really Italian, or are we dipping our bread in lamp oil? Why are we masochistically drawn to foods that can hurt us, like hot peppers? Far from being a classic American dish, is apple pie actually . . . English? "As a species, we're hardwired to obsess over food," Matt Siegel explains as he sets out "to uncover the hidden side of everything we put in our mouths." Siegel...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 394.1 SIE

Zimberoff, Larissa

Summary: "Ultra-processed and secretly produced foods are cheered by consumers and investors because they are plant-based--often vegan--and help address societal issues. An investigative reporter pokes holes in the mania behind today's changing food landscape and clearly shows the trade-offs of replacing real food with technology-driven approximations."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 ZIM

Brewer, Judson

Summary: "A program proven to heal our relationship with food and our bodies from New York Times bestselling author of Unwinding Anxiety. Anyone who struggles with overeating knows what it's like to feel out of control-and to feel the guilt attached to it. While ordinary anxiety feels like something that happens to us, the siren song of food cravings feels like something we should be able to control....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2024

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 BRE

Schatzker, Mark

Summary: "For the last fifty years, we have been fighting a losing war on food. We have cut fat, reduced carbs, eliminated sugar, and attempted every conceivable diet only to find that eighty-eight million American adults are prediabetic, more than a hundred million have high blood pressure, and nearly half now qualify as obese. The harder we try to control what we eat, the more unhealthy we become....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP 613.2 SCH

Kelley, Margot Anne

Summary: "Ever wonder if there's a better way to live, work, and eat? You're not alone. Here is the story of five back-to-the-land movements, from 1840 to present day, when large numbers of utopian-minded people in the United States took action to establish small-scale farming as an alternative to mainstream agriculture. Then and now, it's the story of people striving to live freely and fight injustice,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Godine 2022

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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 334 KEL

Van Raes, Sue

Summary: "In this much-needed counterpoint to the current diet culture, Sue Van Raes presents new science and psychology for food freedom and body compassion that have helped thousands of women improve their health and their lives"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 2024

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 VAN

Schatzker, Mark

Summary: "For the last fifty years, we have been fighting a losing war on food. We have cut fat, reduced carbs, eliminated sugar, and attempted every conceivable diet only to find that eighty-eight million American adults are now pre-diabetic, more than a hundred million have high blood pressure, and nearly half now qualify as obese. The harder we try to control what we eat, the more unhealthy we...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 SCH

Skinner, Julia (Julia C.)

Summary: "In Our Fermented Lives, food historian and fermenting expert Julia Skinner explores the fascinating roots of a wide range of fermented foods in cultures around the world, with a focus on the many intersections fermented foods have with human history and culture"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Publishing 2022

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Prud'homme, Alex

Summary: "Perhaps the most significant meals in the world have been consumed at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue by the presumptive leaders of the free world. Thomas Jefferson had an affinity for eggplant and FDR for terrapin stew. Nixon ate a lump of cottage cheese topped with barbecue sauce every day and Obama regularly had arugula. Now, Alex Prud'homme takes us to the dining tables of the White House to look...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 973.09 PRU

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.09 PRU

Carroll, Aaron E.

Summary: "Advice about food can be confusing. Experts seem to agree on only one thing: some ingredients--often the most enjoyable ones--are bad for you, full stop. But as physician Aaron Carroll explains, if we stop consuming some of our most demonized foods, it may actually hurt us. Examining troves of studies on dietary health, Carroll separates hard truths from hype, showing that you can: eat meat...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 CAR

Kristeller, Jean

Summary: "Anyone who's tried to lose weight through sheer will power knows how difficult, if not impossible, it can be. In this practical and paradigm-shifting book, Dr. Jean Kristeller presents a new alternative--a program for weight loss based on her successful Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training Program. Instead of frustration, deprivation, backsliding, guilt, and a lack of results, The Joy...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Perigee, an impring of Penguin Random House LLC 2015

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Nu Kristeller

Fehribach, Paul

Summary: "Acclaimed Chicago chef Paul Fehribach surveys the tremendous diversity of localist food practices across the Midwest. Fehribach focuses not only on present trends but on a cultural migration from the Ohio River Valley north- and westward. The book will feature many remarkable recipes-e.g., bacon fat-fried Turkey Red Wheat pancakes; delicata squash stuffed with hominy, dried blueberries, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2023

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5977 FEH

Garner, Dwight

Summary: "The New York Times book critic gathers his literary chorus to capture the pure pleasure of reading and eating in this comic, soulful, semi-autobiographic treasure"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GARNER, DWIGHT GAR

Sheen, Barbara.

Summary: Presents an introduction to Canadian cooking, describing traditional dishes, ingredients, and foods made for special holidays and festivals, with recipes for bannock, cranbury fudge, and tourtière.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: KidHaven Press 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 641.5971 SHE

Von Bremzen, Anya

Summary: "National Dish peels back the layers of myth, commercialization, and fetishization around the great world cuisines. In so doing, it brings us to a deep appreciation of how the country makes the food, and the food the country"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.1 VON

Colquhoun, Kate

Summary: Chronicles the social history of Britain through the evolution of its food, tracing the development of aristocratic tastes and street food across the country from pre-Roman times to the present day.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5941 COL

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