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  100 Days of Real Food - How We...

  Lisa Leake

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  #1 New York Times BestsellerThe creator of the 100 Days of Real Food blog draws from her hugely popular website to offer simple, affordable, family-friendly recipes and practical advice for eliminating processed foods from your family's diet.Inspired by Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, Lisa Leake decided her family's eating habits needed an overhaul. She, her husband, and their two small girls pledged to go 100 days without eating highly processed or refined foods—a challenge she opened to readers on her blog.Now, she shares their story, offering insights and cost-conscious recipes everyone can use to enjoy wholesome natural food—whole grains, fruits and vegetables, seafood, locally raised meats, natural juices, dried fruit, seeds, popcorn, natural honey, and more.Illustrated with 125 photographs and filled with step-by-step instructions, this hands-on cookbook and guide includes:  Advice for navigating the grocery store and making smart purchases  Tips for reading ingredient labels  100 quick and easy recipes for such favorites as Homemade Chicken Nuggets, Whole Wheat Pasta with Kale Pesto Cream Sauce, and Cinnamon Glazed Popcorn  Meal plans and suggestions for kid-pleasing school lunches, parties, and snacks  "Real Food" anecdotes from the Leakes' own experiences  A 10-day mini starter-program, and much more. 

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  Food Fights & Culture Wars - A...

  Tom Nealon

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  In this eclectic book of food history, Tom Nealon takes on such overlooked themes as carp and the Crusades, brown sauce and Byron, and chillies and cannibalism, and suggests that hunger and taste are the twin forces that secretly defined the course of civilization. Through war and plague, revolution and migration, people have always had to eat. What and how they ate provoked culinary upheaval around the world as ingredients were traded and fought over, and populations desperately walked the line between satiety and starvation. Parallel to the history books, a second, more obscure history was also being recorded in the cookbooks of the time, which charted the evolution of meals and the transmission of ingredients around the world. Food Fights and Culture Wars: A Secret History of Taste explores the mysteries at the intersection of food and society, and attempts to make sense of the curious area between fact and fiction. Beautifully illustrated with material from the collection of the British Library, this wide-ranging book addresses some of the fascinating, forgotten stories behind everyday dishes and processes. Among many conspiracies and controversies, the author meditates on the connections between the French Revolution and table settings, food thickness and colonialism, and lemonade and the Black Plague.

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  101 Things To Do With Mac & Cheese

  Toni Patrick

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  Creative, affordable recipes featuring the ultimate comfort food! What you can do with an ordinary box of macaroni and cheese? Create 101 family favorites! Perfect for budget-conscious cooks and college students, this collection includes recipes for:  ·      Vegetable Picante Soup ·      Herbed Macaroni and Cucumber Salad ·      Chili Mac ·      Baked Tomato Macaroni  ·      Fried Macaroni and Cheese, and many more  

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  Milwaukee Food - A History of...

  Lori Fredrich

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  A local food writer exploreshow a humble Midwest town developed a food scene unlike any other American city and became a culinary destination of its own.   Milwaukee’s culinary scene boasts more than the iconic beer and bratwurst. It possesses a unique food culture as adventurous as any dining destination in the country. Sample the spreads at landmark hotels like the Pfister that established the city’s hospitable reputation, as well as eateries like Mader’s that cemented it. Meet the producers, chefs and entrepreneurs who helped expand Milwaukee’s palate and pushed the scene to the forefront of the farm-to-fork movement. Milwaukee native and food writer Lori Fredrich serves up the story of a bustling blue-collar town that became a mecca for food lovers and a rising star in the sphere of urban farming.

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  Blessing the Hands That Feed Us...

  Vicki Robin

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  Taking the locavore movement to heart, bestselling coauthor and social innovator Vicki Robin pledged for one month to eat only food sourced within a ten-mile radius of her home on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound, Washington. Her sustainable diet not only brings to light society's unhealthy dependency on mass-produced, prepackaged foods but also helps her reconnect with her body and her environment. 
  Like Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and the bestselling books of Michael Pollan, Blessing the Hands That Feed Us is part personal narrative and part global manifesto. By challenging herself to eat and buy local, Robin exposes the cause and effect of the food business, from the processed goods laden with sugar, fat, and preservatives to the trucks burning through fuel to bring them to a shelf near you. 
  Robin's journey is also one of community as she befriends all the neighboring farmers who epitomize the sustainable lifestyle. Among them are Tricia, the prolific market gardener who issued Robin's ten-mile challenge; Britt and Eric, two young, enthusiastic farmers living their dream of self-sufficiency; and Vicky, a former corporate executive turned milk producer. 
  Featuring practical tips on adopting your own locally sourced diet, Blessing the Hands That Feed Us is an inspirational guide and testimonial to the locavore movement and a healthy food future.

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  Knowledge BLASTER! Guide to Food...

  Yucca Road Productions

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  So, really? You don't know:the difference between wine, brandy, and liqueur?which is better for you, health-wise—saturated or unsaturated fat?what are you eating if you bite into a Cranshaw or a Persian? 
  No problem! We'll have you up and running, food-wise, in no time. So, how do we know all this stuff? Well, we were helping a friend study for the contestant quiz of the Jeopardy! Game show when we realized we had accumulated enough material to help out almost anyone. A student, game show contestant, or the wannabe foodie who lives in all of us. 
  KNOWLEDGE BLASTER! Guide to Food and Drink provides a cornucopia of cooking advice, food safety tips, mixed drink trivia, and nutrition knowledge. You'll find the answers to your food and drink questions in these pages.Why is a baker's dozen different from a regular dozen?What spice is made from the ground outer coating of nutmeg?How can you make scrambled eggs light and fluffy?What is the best district in the world for red wine?What fluffy dish takes its name from the French for "breath?" 
  Did you answer all the questions correctly? No? Well, then... 
  The KNOWLEDGE BLASTER! Series compresses a great mountain of available information into easily digestible morsels. You'll find the books are patterned in an efficient question-and-answer mode, stressing simplicity, brevity, and clarity. You can use this reference work as a launch pad to propel yourself into more in-depth studies. However, if you find this little study guide provides all the information you need, then consider your knowledge... 
  Blasted!

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