Food Tank's Fall Reading List: 22 Inspiring Books to Help Us Better Understand the Food System & Imagine a Just Future Make a Difference Books

Donna John

October 01, 2020

Food Tank, a nonprofit that offers solutions and environmentally sustainable ways of alleviating hunger, obesity and poverty, has put together a reading list to "dig deeper into topics like food justice, gender imbalances in food and cooking, technology and global supply chains, and building greater resilience to threats like climate change and COVID-19. These 22 books can help us to better understand our world, to be inspired by advocates making a difference and to imagine a stronger and more just future for our global food system." Here are their 22 books for fall. Read more about each book at FoodTank.com.

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Biodynamic Beekeeping: A Sustainable Way to Keep Happy, Healthy Bees by Maria Thun (December 15, 2020) (December 15, 2020) $25

Let’s Ask Marion: What You Need to Know about the Politics of Food, Nutrition and Health by Marion Nestle and Kerry Trueman $17

A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Earth by Chris Smaje (October 21, 2020) $23

Food Tank's Fall Reading List: 22 Inspiring Books to Help Us Better Understand the Food System & Imagine a Just Future Make a Difference Books

Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States by James S. Scott $15

The Full Plate: Flavor-Filled, Easy Recipes for Families With No Time and a Lot to Do by Ayesha Curry $18

Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir by Kwame Onwuachi With Joshua David Stein $17

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria (October 6, 2020) $16

Biodynamic Beekeeping: A Sustainable Way to Keep Happy, Healthy Bees by Maria Thun (December 15, 2020) (December 15, 2020) $25

The Growing Season: How I Built a New Life – and Saved an American Farm by Sarah Frey $16

Agrobiodiversity, School Gardens and Healthy Diets by 75 contributors $41

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer $16

Let’s Ask Marion: What You Need to Know about the Politics of Food, Nutrition and Health by Marion Nestle and Kerry Trueman $17

Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe $12

The Nature of Nature: Why We Need the Wild by Enric Sala $21

The Reindeer Chronicles: And Other Inspiring Stories of Working With Nature to Heal the Earth by Judith D. Schwartz $18

Salmon: A Fish, the Earth and the History of a Common Fate by Mark Kurlansky $24

Salmon: A Fish, the Earth and the History of a Common Fate by Mark Kurlansky $24

A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Earth by Chris Smaje (October 21, 2020) $23

Women on Food: Charlotte Druckman and 115 Writers, Chefs, Critics, Television Stars and Eaters by Charlotte Druckman $19

The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr $24

The Fishmeal Revolution: The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem by Kristin A. Wintersteen (May 25, 2021) $28

Rooted Resistance: Agrarian Myth in Modern America (Food and Foodways) by Ross Singer, Stephanie Houston Grey, Jeff Motter $28

We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land and Legacy by Natalie Baszile (April 6, 2021) $30

Eat a Peach by David Chang and Gabe Ulla $17

Hooked: Food, Free Will and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions by Michael Moss (March 2, 2021) $28

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