"Fire, water, air, earth--our most trusted food expert recounts the story of his culinary education In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four classical elements--fire, water, air, and earth--to transform the stuff of nature into delicious things to eat and drink. Apprenticing himself to a succession of culinary masters, Pollan learns how to grill with...

After Maria Duartes' father leaves the farm to find work and she must plant next year's crop, her teacher instructs her on how to terrace the land and use compose to improve her garden so that her family can have enough food for the coming year.

Food matters: Examines the deficiency in both our nutrition and the medical industry that thrives from the lack thereof. Also scrutinized are the agricultural practices that encourage a lack of nutritional value in the commercial foods available to us. Provides evidence that we have the power to prevent disease and heal ourselves of many common ailments through our diet and lifestyle choices, and provides simple suggestions for how to do so. A thousand...

Small steps can create big changes in your communitys food quality and food security, helping to get more healthy food to more people and support a better food system. Ali Berlow shows you dozens of things that anyone can do, from creating a neighborhood kitchen for preserving fresh food to mapping farmland, connecting food pantries with food producers, starting a school garden, and organizing a community composting initiative. Every action you take...

Told entirely in words beginning with the letter "s," follows the creation of a family meal from the farm to the dinner table.

An enlightening narrative historyan entertaining fusion of Tom Wolfe and Michael Pollanthat traces the colorful origins of once unconventional foods and the diverse fringe movements, charismatic gurus, and counterculture elements that brought them to the mainstream and created a distinctly American cuisine.

"Offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade. THE FUTURE OF FOOD examines the complex web of market and political forces that are changing what we eat as huge multinational corporations seek to control the world's food system. The film also explores alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture, placing...

Looks at how American agricultural policy and food culture developed in the 20th century and how the California food movement created a counter-revolution against big agribusiness and launched the local organic movement.