General Info:
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food, by Michael Pollan
A Campaign For Real Milk (website)
The Weston A. Price Foundation (website)
Local Harvest (website) – find your local farmers’ market
Compulsive Eating / Geneen Roth:
Feeding the Hungry Heart
Breaking Free from Emotional Eating
Why Weight? A Guide to Ending Compulsive Eating
Appetites: On the Search for True Nourishment
When Food is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy
Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
Seasonal Cooking:
Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America’s Farmers’ Markets, by Deborah Madison
In Season: Cooking with Vegetables and Fruits, by Sarah Raven and Dan Barber
Mark Bittman’s Kitchen Express, by Mark Bittman
The Minimalist Entertains, by Mark Bittman
Fast, Fresh and Green, by Susie Middleton
(Ok, that last one isn’t really seasonal, per se, but it’s got some AMAZING veggie recipes, and you can look through the index for recipes using the vegetables you found at the farmers’ markets.)
Old-Fashioned, “Real” Cooking:
The Settlement Cookbook, by Mrs. Simon Kander
(The Settlement Cookbook has been updated over the years – find the oldest copy you can. Mine is dated 1915, and I think that’s the original publication date.)
The American Woman’s Cook Book, edited by Ruth Berolzheimer
(Originally published in 1938.)
Too Many Tomatoes, Squash, Beans and Other Good Things: A Cookbook for When Your Garden Explodes, by Lois M. Landau and Laura G. Myers
(This isn’t an old book, per se, but it’s full of amazing vegetable recipes. I’ve had my copy since at LEAST 1999, and I still consult it every summer.)
