Table of Content
1. What Is Food? Michael Pollan, Eat Food: Food Defined Eric Schlosser, Why the Fries Taste So Good Jill McCorkle , Her Chee-to Heart Camille Kingsolver, Taking Local On the Road Lily Wong, Eating the Hyphen Amy Cyrex Sins, Doberge Cake after Katrina Jordan Shapiro, The Eco-Gastronomic Mirror: Narcissism and Death at the Dinner Table 2. What Is The Purpose of Food? Wendell Berry, The Pleasures of Eating Marion Nestle, Eating Made Simple Bryant Terry, Reclaiming True Grits Masanobu Fukuoka, Living by Bread Alone Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio, What the World Eats Erica Strauss, Zombies vs. The Joy of Canning Idov, Michael. When Did Young People Start Spending 25% of Their Paychecks on Pickled Lamb's Tongues? 3. What Determines What We Eat? United States Department of Agriculture, Food Pyramid and Food Plate Nutritional Guidelines Michelle Obama, Michelle. Excerpt from American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America Brian Wansink and Collin R. Payne, The Joy of Cooking Too Much: 70 Years of Calorie Increases in Classic Recipes James Surowiecki, Downsizing Supersize Dhruv Khullar, Why Shame Won't Stop Obesity Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Monsanto's Harvest of Fear Vandana Shiva, Soy Imperialism and the Destruction of Local Food Cultures Gary Paul Nabhan, A Brief History of Cross-Border Food Trade 4. What Does It Mean to Eat Ethically? Margaret Mead, The Changing Significance of Food Peter Singer, Equality for Animals Barbara Kingsolver, You Can't Run Away on Harvest Day Gary Steiner, Animal, Vegetable, Miserable Bill McKibben, The Only Way to Have a Cow Blake Hurst, The Omnivore's Delusion: Against the Agri-intellectuals Sally Kohn, Do Foodies Care about Workers? 5. What Is The Future of Food? Prince Charles of Wales, On the Future of Food David Biello, Will Organic Food Fail to Feed the World? Eliot Coleman, Beyond Organic Robert Paarlberg, Attention Whole Foods Shoppers Frances Moore Lappé, Biotechnology Isn't the Key to Feeding the World Natasha Bowens, Brightening Up the Dark Farming History of the Sunshine State Jennifer Cockrall-King, Chicago: The Vertical Farm