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Salt Sugar Fat
Michael Moss · 2013
A methodical, investigative unpacking of how food giants engineered addictive products, moving company by company through evidence of deliberate manipulation.
Caffeine
Michael Pollan · 2020
A sharp, conversational investigation into caffeine as psychoactive drug and cultural phenomenon, balancing scientific rigor with accessible prose to examine our collective depende
Chew on this
Eric Schlosser · 2006
An accessible, muckraking exposé aimed at younger readers, pulling back the curtain on fast food's ingredients, labor, and marketing to children.
COD; A BIOGRAPHY OF THE FISH THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
Mark Kurlansky · 1997
A meticulously researched biography of Atlantic cod as a historical force, tracing its role in shaping empires, commerce, and exploration before ecological collapse.
Salt Fat Acid Heat
Samin Nosrat · 2017
An approachable, philosophy-driven cookbook that teaches the why behind good cooking through four organizing elements.
The art of fermentation
Sandor Ellix Katz · 2012
A deep, browsable reference that reads like an enthusiastic mentor at your shoulder — practical, contextual, and quietly evangelical about fermentation as culture and craft.
Sugar changed the world
Marc Aronson · 2010
A globe-spanning narrative nonfiction that follows sugar from Indian ritual to Atlantic slavery to revolutionary politics, illustrated with archival material and oral history.
Stolen Focus
Johann Hari · 2022
A journalistic tour through twelve forces eroding modern attention, blending interviews with experts, personal experiment, and a call to collective action.
Folks, This Ain't Normal
Joel Salatin · 2011
A close nonfiction relative — matched on how it reads, with steady pacing.
Overdressed
Elizabeth L. Cline · 2012
Reads like a personal-investigative memoir: the author's own reckoning with fast fashion frames reporting on factories, economics, and sustainable alternatives.
Banana
Dan Koeppel · 2007
A close nonfiction relative — matched on how it reads, with steady pacing.
Food in history
Reay Tannahill · 1973
A sweeping cultural-historical survey of how humans have eaten across millennia, presented in an informative, scholarly register.
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