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The Community
Center is the place to come to see what new things we like - like books,
films and events.
This
Month's Offering - Books We Like
Want to spruce up
your summer reading list? Here
are some new must-reads.
Click on the
books for more information on
them and how to purchase them.
 Diet
for a Dead Planet: How the Food Industry is Killing Us
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Christopher Cook Diet
for a Dead Planet is now out in paperback! "In the epic tradition of all great muckrakers, Chris Cook exposes the forces that have turned our way of eating into something far different from the nourishing, life-giving reality it is supposed to be. In this well-researched and hard-hitting book, he lifts the veil and reveals what you can do to bring food and agriculture back from the brink. This book is a forceful reminder that food should be - and can be - a way of life, not a way of death, for communities, our bodies, and the planet."
-- John Robbins, author of Diet For A New America
GRUB:
Ideas for an Urban Organic
Kitchen
- Anna Lappe'
and Bryant Terry In
a review of this book, a friend recently said
"where else can you find a great read, a cook book,
and a party planner all rolled into one?" Survey
says...GRUB! Get ready for a really good time - make up
a batch of GRUB's
Blackberry Limeade, put your feet up, and dig
into this book! From making healthy food choices and preparing mouth-watering meals, to unmasking corporate flimflam and supporting sustainable farming, here is the complete guide for the young, the hip, the socially tuned-in - and for all who want to eat real food.
Combining a straight-to-the-point exposé about the fake food filling our supermarkets and the compelling reasons for choosing organic, local, "fair" food, Grub helps all of us become a part of one of the most hopeful movements of the new century: a revolution in food and farming that is best for our bodies and the earth.
With spirited and practical how-to's for creating an affordable, easy-to-use organic kitchen and dozens of delectable recipes, Grub also offers the millions of people who buy organics fresh ideas and easy ways to cook with them. From the Valentine's Day Decadence Dinner to the Straight-Edge Punk Brunch Buffet, Grub includes over a dozen menus paired with soundtracks to cook (and party) by.
If organic food has a user's guide, this is it.
 The
Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural
History of Four Meals
- Michael
Pollan A
brilliant and eye-opening book. "What should we
have for dinner?" will never sound
the same to you
again. We are indeed what we eat—and what we eat remakes the world.
This is a must read for anyone who wants to better
understand the American food system.
Pollan has divided The Omnivore's Dilemma into three parts, one for each of the food chains that sustain us: industrialized food, alternative or "organic" food, and food people obtain by dint of their own hunting, gathering, or gardening. Pollan follows each food chain literally from the ground up to the table,
and concludes each section by sitting down to a meal—at McDonald's, at home with his family sharing a dinner from Whole Foods, and in a revolutionary "beyond organic" farm in Virginia. For each meal he traces the provenance of everything consumed, revealing the hidden components we unwittingly ingest.
 Raising
Less Corn, More Hell
-
George Pyle How
can you argue with a title like that? A revelatory, alarming, urgent and fiercely witty essay on the many wrong ways in which our food is produced — what it all means and what can be done about it.
Pyle shows us how the famous breadbasket of America is being bought up by large corporations, who produce less food per acre than the small farmer, push those farmers further into debt, pollute the earth and wear out the soil, and even license the very stuff of life: grain and seed. Meanwhile those farmers are promised a better future if they play ball with the corporations, but caught between the brutal new market and antiquated government support systems, they are forced to grow too much of the wrong crops — crops that will be fed to animals who cannot tolerate them, shipped as dubious "aid" to struggling countries, drive the farmer's take-home pay ever downward, and make us all fatter. Raise
your pitchforks and get ready to raise some hell!
What
are you reading? See a good film on food lately?
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