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Breaking Through
Francisco Jiménez
Houghton Mifflin, 2002
wonderful portrayal of a migrant family
I bought *Breaking Through* without realizing that it was a sequel to *The Circuit*. Nonetheless, you aren't lost if you start with *Breaking Through* I loved this memoir because it was one of the best portrayal of a migrant family.
This memoir chronicled the life ...
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The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants
Samuel Thayer
Forager's Harvest Press, 2006
It fills the void!
This book is unique in that it fills a big void in the other wild edible books out there. This void is filled mainly by the chapters entitled "Harvest and Preparation Methods for Wild Plant Foods" and "Storing Wild Foods". Thayer wrote this book with his experience and ...
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Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America's Farmers' Markets
Deborah Madison
Broadway, 2008
Great Recipies and Wonderful Pictures
Perhaps it is unsophisticated for me to enjoy pictures in cook books as much as I do - but I find it hard to cook without them. This book is full of lush vegetable and food photos. The recipies are true to the title, teaching the reader how to use ingredients from ...
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Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis
Rowan Jacobsen
Bloomsbury USA, 2008
interesting read
I found this book to be an interesting and somewhat scary perspective on agriculture and the negative aspects of industrial farming. I actually was moved to go and purchase organic wildflower honey and was really suprised by the difference from consumer grade honey
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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
Dan Koeppel
Hudson Street Press, 2007
Mangu de Platano
I am deeply grateful to Koeppel for the tribute he paid to Phil Rowe, the United Brands banana/plantain breeder in Honduras who died in 2001. Koeppel never met him but obviously captured a strong sense of who Phil was and his important contribution to world food ...
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The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics)
John Steinbeck
Penguin Classics, 2006
A Classic in every respect
There are very few American novels that can be called a classic, but the trails and tribulations of the Jode family during the Great Depression stands at the pinnacle of 20th century literarute. Nobel prize winner for this his master opus, Steinbeck has etched in the ...
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The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
John Steinbeck
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002
A master at his craft!
I just finished reading "The Grapes of Wrath." Steinbeck's simple but poetic prose shows a mastery of subtlety and expertise. The dialog was very believable and realistic. The period in which J. Steinbeck wrote as did Hemingway was the realism movement, which never ...
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The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but ...
Thomas Hager
Harmony, 2008
A sweeping history of tragic genius, cutting-edge science, and the discovery that changed billions of lives?including your own. At the dawn of the twentieth century, humanity was facing global disaster. Mass starvation, long predicted for the fast-growing population, was about to become a reality. A call went out to the world?s scientists to find ...
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Esperanza Rising
Pam Munoz Ryan
Blue Sky Press, 2002
Reads almost like a song
I did not expect this book to amaze me as much as it did. Maybe it's the fact that this is based on the true story of the author's grandmother, but this book is written with such heart and love it will set you weeping. At the same time, it's beautiful, touching, and ...
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A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929 (None)
Paul K. Conkin
University Press of Kentucky, 2008
At a time when food is becoming increasingly scarce in many parts of the world and food prices are skyrocketing, no industry is more important than agriculture. Humans have been farming for thousands of years, and yet agriculture has undergone more fundamental changes in the past 80 years than in the previous several centuries. In 1900, 30 million ...
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Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field
Anne Whiston Spirn
University Of Chicago Press, 2008
Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field
As someone who used iconic Lange photos in my American Studies classes for years, this book in one I wish I had had BEFORE I retired last year! Their are photos I hadn't seen, in areas I didn't know she worked and, most importantly, her 'reports from the field'. These ...
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Allie Gator's Halloween Hayride (John Deere)
Running Press Kids, 2006
Allie Gator's Halloween Hayride
My 4yr old son just loves tractors. And with the John Deere books he really gets into the bright colored pages. Then he likes to tell his own story from what he sees from the pages. In which I think that it helps with his vivid imagination.
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Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered ...
Jeffrey M. Smith
Yes! Books, 2003
You Are What You Eat, This is Food for Thought
A decade ago, what we ate wasn't on the radar of most people. The musings of a few hermits, a handful of anti-government critics and your garden variety assortment of conspiracy theorists and crazy people was all that one had when it came a debate on whats being done ...
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America Is in the Heart: A Personal History (Washington Paperbacks, Wp-68)
Carlos Bulosan
University of Washington Press, 1974
A beautifully-told tale of tragedy....
I first read AMERICA IS IN THE HEART as a young teenager in high school. Writer Carlos Bulosan goes the semi-autobiographical route to re-examine some of the most painful memories of his life, starting as a youth in the Philippines up to his last days on the West ...
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PERMACULTURE: A Designers' Manual
Bill Mollison, Reny Mia Slay
Tagari Publications, 1997
There is nothing better regarding Sustainability
Bill Mollison represents the most successful attempt to mainstream practical home-scale sustainable design principles. I found myself needing to do an enormous amount of supplementary research to actually understand what bill was talking about, but to explain them in ...
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