Here are 20 books recommended by Food Tank this fall.
1. California Soul: Tanya Holland’s Recipe for a Wild West Journey (coming October 25, 2022)
Celebrity chef, restaurateur, and soul food expert Tanya Holland has created and shared over 80 new recipes in her upcoming cookbook, California Soul. Dutch “California soul food” highlights African-American Southern-style cooking brought to the West Coast. Her books blend sustainable, local ingredients with stories of local history and migration. This cookbook links to the work of modern black foodies, from farmers to culinary experts, who shape this culturally rich cuisine.
2. Cooking from the Spirit: Easy, Delicious, Fun Plant-Based Inspiration from Tabitha Brown
Social media personality and New York Times bestselling author feed the soul (because it’s my job) Tabitha Brown will publish a new cookbook called Cooking from the Spirit this fall. Her foodie influencer blends her bubbly personality and her personal wisdom with a variety of vegan her recipes to choose from. Brown offers family-friendly, plant-based meals that cooks of all levels can enjoy.
3. Dinner on Mars: Technology to Feed Mars and Transform Earth’s Agriculture (Lenore Newman, Evan DG Fraser)
In Dinner on Mars, two food scientists explore how humans find nutrition on distant planets and how these ideas affect what we eat on Earth. For those interested and concerned about the future of our food supply in the current climate era, Lenore Newman and Evan DG Fraser discuss how dinner menus are designed for sustainable food production. It offers a unique perspective on how things can and must change.
4. Eat to Thrive: How Food Supports Mental Health by Mary Beth Albright (Released November 29, 2022)
In Eat and Flourish, journalist Mary Beth Albright reveals how food affects the brain. She dives into the latest research that explains the profound and often overlooked relationship between food choices and mental health. Albright also provides an accessible guide to foods and habits that promote healthy emotional states. present it to the reader.
5. Food Stars: 15 Women’s Stirring Up the Food Industry by Ellen Mahoney (Published October 18, 2022)
Food Stars highlights the critical role of women in building, changing and sustaining the food industry. Author Ellen Mahoney delves into the lives and her accomplishments of her 15 women with careers ranging from farmers and chefs to scientists, activists and content creators. Her Mahoney’s powerful story highlights each woman’s unique path to success and the positive and lasting impact she left on that path.
6. Grass-Fed Beef for a Post-Pandemic World: How Regenerative Grazing Restores Soils and Stabilizes the Climate by Ridge Shinn and Lynne Pledger (scheduled for November 11, 2022)
The founder and communications director of Big Picture Beef, a 100% grass-fed ranching and networking company in the Northeast, is working to spread knowledge and farming models through grass-fed beef for a post-pandemic world. This book introduces readers to the concept of regenerative grazing and its many benefits to public, planetary and animal health. The authors argue that a more localized and holistic style of meat production is needed more urgently than ever.
7. Groundbakers by Mackenzie Feldman and Kathy Feldman
In their new cookbook, Groundbakers, mother-daughter duo Mackenzie and Kathy Feldman showcase over 60 vegan and gluten-free recipes. By blending recipes with key insights from diverse stakeholders in the food system, the Feldmans reveal the story behind the ingredients. They discuss the importance of plant-based diets in the broader context of the food industry and the impact of food choices on farms, animals, workers, and the environment. please).
8. I Am From Here Vishwesh Bhatt
Mississippi restaurateur and James Beard Award-winning chef Vishwesh Bhatt blends Indian roots with Southern-style cooking in over 100 recipes for home cooks. While celebrating a variety of vegetarian and comfort food, Bhatt celebrates his childhood in Gujarat, India, and recounts stories of immigration. He also highlights the role of history, culture and complex social issues behind the ingredients that form the basis of his cuisine.
9. Kuni: A Japanese Vision and Practice for Urban-Rural Reconnection Tsuyoshi Sekihara and Richard McCarthy (scheduled for October 18, 2022)
Two community development leaders from different countries shed light on Kuni’s universal human values. These values of equality, democracy, balance and interdependence help bridge the gap between urban and often forgotten rural areas. In particular, Sekihara and McCarthy promote the principles of regeneration and circulation, in which collectives use food to support rather than undermine rural vitality.
10. Milking: How America’s Crisis Linked Midwest Dairy Farmers with Mexican Workers Ruth Conniff
Inspired by her experiences growing up in Wisconsin and traveling to Mexico as an adult, journalist Ruth Conniff, in Milked, details the unique relationship between Mexican dairy workers and Midwestern farmers, undocumented. I’m explaining. Despite conflicting politics, these two groups of people forged a seemingly unexpected friendship. The increasing reciprocity between workers and farmers reveals common commonalities that are not fully recognized by society. Koniff explores the implications of this bond for immigration, labor, farms, and food policy.
11. My Ackee Tree: A Chef’s Memoir of Finding Home in the Kitchen (Suzanne Barr, Suzanne Hancock)
Readers may know Canadian chef Suzanne Barr from her favorite restaurants, appearances on TV shows and documentaries, or her advocacy on food security and marginalized communities. Barr takes readers on her personal journey as a successful chef and activist with My Ackee Tree. She reflects on Jamaican traditions, upbringing, travels and relationships to shape her passion for cooking. Burr delves into the inspiring tale of great hardship and love that is integral to the famous comfort meal she shares with the world today.
12. Road Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed, and the Fight for the Future of Meat by Chloe Sorvino (Releasing December 6, 2022)
Raw Deal examines the American meat industry. Sorvino’s fascinating discovery informs the fragility of a powerful part of the food system and the impact of this broken industry. She works on the convergence of political, economic, environmental and social issues caused by corporate meatpacking. Ultimately, the story aims to raise awareness of issues consumers are largely unaware of and advocate for decentralized, localized alternatives to meat production.
13. Rebirth: Feeding the World Without Devouring it George Monbiot
Activist George Monbiot illustrates how the current form of agriculture is doing great damage to the environment. At Regenesis, we aim to educate and inspire others to implement a reformed approach to agriculture. Monbio guides the reader through the complex world beneath the feet of the eater and encourages the rejuvenation of the soil. His call for change is not a simple exchange of practices, but a radical revolution in the way people grow their food.
14. 60 Harvests Left: Ways Towards A Green Future Philip Lymbery
Philip Lymbery responds to the UN’s ongoing warnings about soil erosion in Sixty Harvests Left. Lynberry travels the world to uncover the impact of industrialized agriculture on unprecedented topsoil depletion. But his comprehensive study of the dangers of our food system need not cripple readers with fear, anger, or guilt. Lynberry delivers stories inspired by a variety of changemakers while revealing the power of farming responsibly. Importantly, he provides clear and achievable solutions to ever-growing problems.
15. The Land Remains: A Midwestern Perspective on Our Past and Future by Neil D. Hamilton
Former Professor Neil D. Hamilton shares his personal story and experience as a leader in agricultural conservation in Iowa. Hamilton has a wealth of knowledge and insight into rural communities through teaching, writing and advising others. In his memoir, The Land Remains, Hamilton shines a light on the intersections of land management, public health, social and racial justice, economic equity, and climate action.
16. The Meat Paradox: Eating, Empathy, and the Future of Meat by Rob Percival
According to author Rob Percival, as empathy for factory-raised animals grows, so does the demand for meat. To explain this contradiction, Percival turns to the psychology of the flesh paradox. He delves into the evolution of consumer diets and their relationship to animals, contemporary culture around meat, and controversial debates about vegetarianism. This book seeks to answer how the tension between people’s morals and insatiable appetite arose and how it continues to influence decisions about food.
17. Seed Detective: Uncovering the Secret History of Amazing Vegetables (by Adam Alexander)
Adam Alexander explores how the modern vegetable was born in The Seed Detective. In pondering the enhanced flavors and colors of native plants, Alexander reveals how societies began to manipulate and permanently alter their seed supply. His journey into the past helps readers understand the difference between seeds that have been preserved and cultivated for centuries and those that dominate food production today. In it, he strives to protect the extinction of seeds that have been passed down for generations.
18. Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial by Corban Addison
Wastelands unearths a rare and poignant tale of David defeating Goliath. After dealing with unbearable stench, noise, pests and pollution from nearby factory farms, North Carolina locals decided to take action. Along with bold lawyers, small-town activists waged a nasty and complicated legal battle against a meat processing company. In the second-largest pig-producing state, it seemed unlikely that this group of local neighbors would win. But this grassroots effort has demonstrated the power of courage, tenacity and determination to achieve justice.
19. We are not starving: Ghana’s struggle for food sovereignty Joeva Sean Rock
How have genetically modified organisms (GMOs) affected the countries they’ve been touted to save? Professor Joeva Sean Rock tackles this and more in We Are Not Starving. This cultural analysis is not one or the other regarding the need for biotechnology. Rather, Locke analyzes those who work for or against the corporate and philanthropic narrative that GMOs are the panacea for hunger in Africa. She explains how this discourse reveals the power, exploitation and fierce resistance that underlie African food systems.
20. What Your Food Ateed: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health by Anne Biklé and David R. Montgomery
At a time when carrots have less zinc than past carrot varieties, Ann Biclet and David R. Montgomery believe farming practices must change. They also take nutrients from people. What Your Food Ate calls for replacing these methods with a regenerative model, not only for environmental benefits, but for better health. Vickre and Montgomery relate the density of vitamins and minerals in soil to plants, animals and humans.
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