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Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (270 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Travel through time on a culinary adventure that reveals the humble beginnings and climactic interludes of cuisine throughout the ages to reveal how food has made us who we are today, and how it shapes our future.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan's thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real."...
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Description
Inventor Flint Lockwood thought he saved the world when he destroyed his machine that turned water into food causing cheeseburger rain and spaghetti tornadoes. But Flint soon learns that his invention survived and is now creating food-animals. Flint and his friends embark on a dangerously delicious mission to battle hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees, hippotatomuses, cheespiders and other foodimals to save the world again!
Publisher
Pbs
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follow chef Marcus Samuelsson as he immerses himself in diverse immigrant communities and cuisines in cities across the US. In each hour, Marcus will travel to a different city and dive into a new food culture. He'll discover the important immigrant histories - and delicious culinary traditions - that shape the way America eats today.
6) Foodmatters
Series
Iron weed film club volume no. 50
Description
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...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hosted by renowned chef Marcus Samuelsson, Season Two takes viewers on another inspiring journey across the U.S. to explore and celebrate the wide-ranging diversity of immigrant traditions and cuisine woven into American food and culture. Each week Marcus visits a new city to learn about the dynamic and creative ways a particular community has made its mark.
Publisher
Chris Taylor]
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (73:13 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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.
11) Super size me
Publisher
Hart Sharp Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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...
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