Food Initiatives Book List
What food initiative books do you have in your library? What food books do you recommend to other people? For the purposes of this book list we can be broad and inclusive of: fiction, non-fiction, reference, gardening, cooking, policy, cultural, historical, etc.
I will start our FIG Virtual Library with Michael Pollan’s The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World. This terrific book asks readers to think about the historical relationship between human beings and four plants: the apple, tulips, marijuana, and the potato. Pollan wants readers to consider how these plants have adapted to become more widely dispersed and desired by humans. He also wants readers to recognize that the changes these plants have experienced in order to become so popular in today’s world have harmful as well as beneficial consequences. The Botany of Desire is also a newly released DVD that is also excellent. Pollan is featured on the DVD and manages to get his stories across with the benefit of some great visual images.
