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"A radically practical guide to making food choices that are good for you, others, and the planet. Is organic really worth it? Are eggs ok to eat? If so, which ones are best for you, and for the chicken--Cage-Free, Free-Range, Pasture-Raised? What about farmed salmon, soy milk, sugar, gluten, fermented foods, coconut oil, almonds? Thumbs-up, thumbs-down, or somewhere in between? Using three criteria--Is it good for me? Is it good for others? Is it...
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"Did you know that your morning coffee could be thanks to a herd of energetic goats? Or that a forgotten ingredient is behind the invention of the beloved brownie? Who got the fright of their life discovering corn could pop? And which popular soft drink started out as a medicinal syrup? Oscar Farinetti, founder of high-end global food chain Eataly, presents this collection of insightful and entertaining interviews with leading artisan food producers,...
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"In Grocery , bestselling author Michael Ruhlman offers incisive commentary on America's relationship with its food and investigates the overlooked source of so much of it -- the grocery store. In a culture obsessed with food--how it looks, what it tastes like, where it comes from, what is good for us--there are often more questions than answers. Ruhlman proposes that the best practices for consuming wisely could be hiding in plain sight--in the aisles...
7) Little Pea
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Little Pea hates eating candy for dinner, but his parents will not let him have his spinach dessert until he cleans his plate.
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HarperCollins / Open Road Integrated Media
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2019.
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Forget processed store-bought food--feed your dog a nutritious, balanced diet that uses healthy quality ingredients with this charming full-color illustrated guide with fifty great recipes for your beloved companion. Modern dog people only want the best for their canine companions, and that extends to the food they eat. With Bone Appétit , you control the ingredients and the portions to feed your dog a practical, nutritious, and balanced diet--all...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Eleven-year-old Maria Luz and her family have a small farm in Honduras, but may not have enough food to sustain them for the year, so Maria's father must leave home to find work, leaving her in charge of the garden.
11) Come and eat!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Photographs and text show how people eat from infancy to adulthood and the traditional eating habits of people from different cultures and countries.
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Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi explores the history and cultural importance of our most beloved tastes, paying homage to the ingredients that give us daily pleasure, while providing a thoughtful wake-up call to the homogenization that is threatening the diversity of our food supply. Food is one of the greatest pleasures of human life. Our response to sweet, salty, bitter, or sour is deeply personal, combining our individual biological characteristics,...
13) Super size me
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Hart Sharp Video
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c2004
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Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock embarks on a journey to find out if fast food is making Americans fat. For 30 days he can't eat or drink anything that isn't on McDonald's menu; he must eat three square meals a day, he must eat everything on the menu at least once and supersize his meal if asked. He treks across the country interviewing a host of experts on fast food and a number of regular folk while downing McDonald's to try and find out why 37% of American...
14) Mouse mess
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Blue Sky Press
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c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
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A hungry mouse leaves a huge mess when it goes in search of a snack.
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
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c1997
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IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Dozing off while contemplating Grandpa's unusual vacation, Kate dreams about Chewandswallow, a town where giant food falls from the sky and is shipped off to hungry people around the world.
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"To help us reconnect with the food that sustains our lives, the author has spent four years going around the world...and sourcing ingredients within local food ecosystems -- experiences taking place in over twenty countries that include milking a water buffalo to make mozzarella for pizza in Italy; harvesting oysters in Long Island Sound and honey from wild bees in Kenya; and making patis in the Philippines, beer in Malta, and sea salt in Iceland....
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Oxford University Press
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1999
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Contains 2,650 alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about various aspects of food and food products and their use; including essays on staple foods, national and regional cuisines, food preservation, food science and diet, cookbooks and their authors, and many other topics.
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