bookshelf

INSPIRED AND INSPIRING (MOSTLY) FOOD WRITING

By Wendell Berry

Home Economics: Fourteen Essays

By Mark Bittman

Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating

By MFK Fisher

The Art of Eating

By Barbara Kingsolver

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (with Steven L. Hopp, Camille Kingsolver)

Small Wonder (Essays)

By Nina Planck

Real Food: What to Eat & Why

By Michael Pollan

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

By Eric Schlosser

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

By Alisa Smith & JB MacKinnon

Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally

COOKBOOKS

The more I cook, the less I consult recipes; however, these cookbooks are on the kitchen counter and are the ones I turn to for ideas most often.

By Alice Waters

Chez Panisse Vegetables

By Deborah Madison

Local Flavors: Cooking & Eating from America's Farmers' Markets

Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone