I had read some of Barbara Kingsolver’s works of fiction, but a friend told me about this book, and I knew I just had to read it. Kingsolver and her family embark on a one-year experiment to try to eat only local food, and to raise as much of it as they can themselves on [...]
I actually read this book quite a bit later than The Omnivore’s Dilemma, so it wasn’t as life altering as it might have been, but still it had some great insights, and served up some interesting theories about the correlation between fast food, shopping malls, urbanization, and obesity, among other things. He reveals more information [...]
This is the book that started it all for me. We just really don’t think enough the food we eat, or the effect it has on both our bodies and the world. Did you know that if you go meatless just one day a week, the United States would save:
“100 billion gallons of water, enough [...]