Food History, Justice, and Policy (nonfiction)

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The Oyster War: The True Story of a Small Farm, Big Politics, and the Future of Wilderness in America
The Oyster War: The True Story of a Small Farm, Big Politics, and the Future of Wilderness in America 3.96 avg rating — 351 ratings
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Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala
Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala 4.29 avg rating — 1,956 ratings
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life 4.05 avg rating — 112,353 ratings
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Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health 3.94 avg rating — 4,624 ratings
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A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism
A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism 4.21 avg rating — 162 ratings
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Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism
Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism 3.73 avg rating — 811 ratings
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Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda
Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda 3.67 avg rating — 251 ratings
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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us 4.01 avg rating — 32,459 ratings
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The Town That Food Saved: How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food
The Town That Food Saved: How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food 3.58 avg rating — 1,106 ratings
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Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine
Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine 3.72 avg rating — 202 ratings
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White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf 3.63 avg rating — 814 ratings
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A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression
A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression 3.75 avg rating — 2,207 ratings
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The Fish Market: Inside the Big-Money Battle for the Ocean and Your Dinner Plate
The Fish Market: Inside the Big-Money Battle for the Ocean and Your Dinner Plate 3.94 avg rating — 101 ratings
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The Tragedy of the Commodity: Oceans, Fisheries, and Aquaculture
The Tragedy of the Commodity: Oceans, Fisheries, and Aquaculture 4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Precious Cargo: How Foods From the Americas Changed The World
Precious Cargo: How Foods From the Americas Changed The World 3.19 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Organic: A Journalist's Quest to Discover the Truth behind Food Labeling
Organic: A Journalist's Quest to Discover the Truth behind Food Labeling 3.68 avg rating — 215 ratings
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Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America
Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America 3.78 avg rating — 3,343 ratings
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The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World 3.61 avg rating — 556 ratings
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From Hardtack to Home Fries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals
From Hardtack to Home Fries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals 3.88 avg rating — 221 ratings
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Isn't This Plate Indian? Dalit Histories and Memories of Food
Isn't This Plate Indian? Dalit Histories and Memories of Food 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ 4.08 avg rating — 53,718 ratings
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Baking Powder Wars: The Cutthroat Food Fight that Revolutionized Cooking
Baking Powder Wars: The Cutthroat Food Fight that Revolutionized Cooking 4.08 avg rating — 229 ratings
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The Georgia Peach: Culture, Agriculture, and Environment in the American South
The Georgia Peach: Culture, Agriculture, and Environment in the American South 3.67 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Food Sovereignty in Canada: Creating Just and Sustainable Food Systems
Food Sovereignty in Canada: Creating Just and Sustainable Food Systems really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig
Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig 4.15 avg rating — 861 ratings
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Eat Drink Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Food Politics
Eat Drink Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Food Politics 3.88 avg rating — 206 ratings
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Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon, from River to Table
Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon, from River to Table 4.19 avg rating — 239 ratings
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The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food
The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food 3.85 avg rating — 1,139 ratings
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The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South 3.87 avg rating — 8,046 ratings
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Secret Formula: The Inside Story of How Coca-Cola Became the Best-Known Brand in the World
Secret Formula: The Inside Story of How Coca-Cola Became the Best-Known Brand in the World 3.95 avg rating — 459 ratings
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The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food
The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food 4.28 avg rating — 7,198 ratings
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Seedtime: On the History, Husbandry, Politics and Promise of Seeds
Seedtime: On the History, Husbandry, Politics and Promise of Seeds 4.02 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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A History of Food in 100 Recipes
A History of Food in 100 Recipes 3.72 avg rating — 710 ratings
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Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health
Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health 3.90 avg rating — 102 ratings
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I Am Not a Tractor!: How Florida Farmworkers Took On the Fast Food Giants and Won
I Am Not a Tractor!: How Florida Farmworkers Took On the Fast Food Giants and Won 4.32 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Delta Hot Tamales: History, Stories & Recipes
Delta Hot Tamales: History, Stories & Recipes 4.69 avg rating — 72 ratings
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First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
First Bite: How We Learn to Eat 3.89 avg rating — 3,451 ratings
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The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century
The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century 3.94 avg rating — 418 ratings
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Fighting the Banana Wars and Other Fairtrade Battles
Fighting the Banana Wars and Other Fairtrade Battles 3.47 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time
Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time 4.13 avg rating — 300 ratings
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Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat 3.85 avg rating — 10,086 ratings
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Food First Comic
Food First Comic 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Would You Marry A Farmer?
Would You Marry A Farmer? 4.10 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food 3.69 avg rating — 5,103 ratings
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Hungry Ocean
Hungry Ocean 3.85 avg rating — 5,813 ratings
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Eat the City: A Tale of the Fishers, Foragers, Butchers, Farmers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Cane Cutters, Beekeepers, Winemakers, and Brewers Who Built New York
Eat the City: A Tale of the Fishers, Foragers, Butchers, Farmers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Cane Cutters, Beekeepers, Winemakers, and Brewers Who Built New York 3.91 avg rating — 679 ratings
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Butter: A Rich History
Butter: A Rich History 3.85 avg rating — 1,086 ratings
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Food Fight!: Millennial Mestizaje Meets the Culinary Marketplace
Food Fight!: Millennial Mestizaje Meets the Culinary Marketplace 4.63 avg rating — 79 ratings
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The Intimate Bond: How Animals Shaped Human History
The Intimate Bond: How Animals Shaped Human History 3.52 avg rating — 251 ratings
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Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power
Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power 4.34 avg rating — 172 ratings
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Biting the Hands that Feed Us: How Fewer, Smarter Laws Would Make Our Food System More Sustainable
Biting the Hands that Feed Us: How Fewer, Smarter Laws Would Make Our Food System More Sustainable 3.75 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Pure and Modern Milk: An Environmental History since 1900
Pure and Modern Milk: An Environmental History since 1900 3.93 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History 4.10 avg rating — 3,014 ratings
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To Live and Dine in Dixie: The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South
To Live and Dine in Dixie: The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South 3.79 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are
The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are 3.57 avg rating — 2,755 ratings
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A Mess of Greens: Southern Gender and Southern Food
A Mess of Greens: Southern Gender and Southern Food 4.32 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Cod and Herring: The Archaeology and History of Medieval Sea Fishing
Cod and Herring: The Archaeology and History of Medieval Sea Fishing really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat
The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat 4.09 avg rating — 538 ratings
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The Perfect Protein: The Fish Lover's Guide to Saving the Oceans and Feeding the World
The Perfect Protein: The Fish Lover's Guide to Saving the Oceans and Feeding the World 3.98 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food 4.05 avg rating — 6,843 ratings
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World 3.92 avg rating — 24,360 ratings
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Superman's Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do About It
Superman's Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do About It really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 412 ratings
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The Omega Principle: Seafood and the Quest for a Long Life and a Healthier Planet
The Omega Principle: Seafood and the Quest for a Long Life and a Healthier Planet 4.07 avg rating — 228 ratings
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American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood
American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood 4.13 avg rating — 949 ratings
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The World of the Salt Marsh: Appreciating and Protecting the Tidal Marshes of the Southeastern Atlantic Coast
The World of the Salt Marsh: Appreciating and Protecting the Tidal Marshes of the Southeastern Atlantic Coast 4.25 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Red Clay, Pink Cadillacs and White Gold: The Kaolin Chalk Wars
Red Clay, Pink Cadillacs and White Gold: The Kaolin Chalk Wars 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Scraps, Wilt & Weeds: Turning Wasted Food into Plenty
Scraps, Wilt & Weeds: Turning Wasted Food into Plenty 3.66 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism
Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism 3.89 avg rating — 272 ratings
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Sex on the Kitchen Table: The Romance of Plants and Your Food
Sex on the Kitchen Table: The Romance of Plants and Your Food 3.83 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Garlic, an Edible Biography: How the World's Most Pungent Food Changed the Course of History, Medicine, and Cuisine
Garlic, an Edible Biography: How the World's Most Pungent Food Changed the Course of History, Medicine, and Cuisine 3.65 avg rating — 106 ratings
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The Real Cost of Fracking: How America's Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food
The Real Cost of Fracking: How America's Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food 3.77 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood
Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood 4.14 avg rating — 672 ratings
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The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet
The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet 4.14 avg rating — 1,412 ratings
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The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food
The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food 4.20 avg rating — 496 ratings
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The Fruitful City: The Enduring Power of the Urban Food Forest
The Fruitful City: The Enduring Power of the Urban Food Forest 3.86 avg rating — 90 ratings
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The New Farm: Our Ten Years on the Front Lines of the Good Food Revolution
The New Farm: Our Ten Years on the Front Lines of the Good Food Revolution 4.30 avg rating — 915 ratings
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Food Fight: GMOs and the Future of the American Diet
Food Fight: GMOs and the Future of the American Diet 3.90 avg rating — 185 ratings
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Project Animal Farm: An Accidental Journey into the Secret World of Farming and the Truth About Our Food
Project Animal Farm: An Accidental Journey into the Secret World of Farming and the Truth About Our Food 4.21 avg rating — 400 ratings
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Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America
Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America 4.08 avg rating — 730 ratings
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Blessing the Hands That Feed Us: What Eating Closer to Home Can Teach Us About Food, Community, and Our Place on Earth
Blessing the Hands That Feed Us: What Eating Closer to Home Can Teach Us About Food, Community, and Our Place on Earth 3.38 avg rating — 272 ratings
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Food, Inc.: Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest
Food, Inc.: Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest 4.09 avg rating — 952 ratings
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Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food
Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food 4.18 avg rating — 2,010 ratings