Somerville Reads Calendar
Spring 2012 Books
Great Books about Food
- Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
- How Bad are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything by Mike Berners-Lee
- In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
- One Fish, Two Fish, Crawfish, Bluefish: The Smithsonian Sustainable Seafood Cookbook by Carole. C. Baldwin
- Plenty: Good, Uncomplicated Food for the Sustainable Kitchen by Diana Henry
- The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution by Alice Waters
- The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
- The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America's Underground Food Movements by Sandor Ellix Katz
- The Town That Food Saved: How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food by Ben Hewitt
- Urban Pantry: Tips and Recipes for a Thrifty, Sustainable and Seasonal Kitchen by Amy Pennington
Great Books About Food for Older Kids
- Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson
- The Coming to America Cookbook: Delicious Recipes and Fascinating Stories From America's Many Cultures by Joan D'Amico
- Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Let's Eat!: What Children Eat Around the World by Beatrice Hollyer
- Local Farms and Sustainable Foods by Julia Vogel
- Reducing Your Foodprint: Farming, Cooking, and Eating For a Healthy Planet by Ellen Rodger
- What the World Eats photographed by Peter Menzel; written by Faith D'Aluisio
Great Books About Food for Younger Kids
- 10 Hungry Rabbits: Counting & Color Concepts by Anita Lobel
- And the Good Brown Earth by Kathy Henderson
- Apple Farmer Annie by Monica Wellington
- The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss
- Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert
- Gobble It Up!: A Fun Song About Eating by Jim Arnosky
- Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert
- Market Day by Carol Foskett Cordsen
- My Garden by Kevin Henkes
- The Secret Life of Food by Clare Crespo
- Soup Day by Melissa Iwai
- Stone Soup by Marcia Brown
- Time to Eat by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
- To Market, To Market by Nikki McClure
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- Whose Garden Is It? by Mary Ann Hoberman
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