Food for Thought by Alton Brown
Alton Brown steps away from the recipes for a collection of personal essays on food, memory, culture, and identity. Required reading for Good Eats fans and food lovers who want their reading with a side of genuine reflection.
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our country’s oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week.