What's The Matter With Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
Thomas Frank
Delves into why people vote against their own self-interest and put the Republicans in office.
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Barbara Kingsolver
Chronicles a year trying to eat nothing but home grown food, and if not that, locally grown food.
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Michael Pollan
From The Washington Post: The omnivore's dilemma is twofold: what we choose to eat ("What should we have for dinner?" he asks in the opening sentence of his book) and how we let that food be produced. His book is an eater's manifesto, and he touches on a vast array of subjects, from food fads and taboos to our avoidance of not only our food's animality, but also our own.
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I'm reading The Omnivore's Dilemma now. It has changed the way I think about food, corn specifically. Very interesting book!
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