Helpings Bibliography
Appleton, Nancy and G.N. Jacobs (2009), Suicide by Sugar: a startling look at our #1 national addiction, Square One Publishing.
Bartholomew, Mel (2005), Square Foot Gardening: A New Way to Garden in Less Space with Less Work, Rodale Books.
Bendrick, Lou (2008), Eat Where You Live: How to Find and Enjoy Fantastic Local and Sustainable Food No Matter Where You Live, Skipstone Press.
Berry, Wendell and Michael Pollan (2009), Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food, Counterpoint.
Bittman, Mark (2011), Cooking Solves Everything: How Time in the Kitchen Can Save Your Health, Your Budget and Even the Planet, Byliner.
Carolan, Michael (2011), The Real Cost of Cheap Food, Routledge.
Carpenter, Novella (2010), Farm City: the Education of an Urban Farmer, Penguin.
Coleman, Eliot, Amsel, Sheri and Molly Field (1995), The New Organic Grower: A Master’s Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener, Chelsea Green.
Coyne, Kelly and Erik Knutzen (2010), The Urban Homestead: Your guide to self-sufficient living in the city, Process.
Cribb, Julian (2010) The Coming Famine: The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid it, University of California Press, and CSIRO publishing.
Despommier, Dickson (2011), The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century, Picador.
Diamond, Jared (2005), Guns, Germs and Steel, W.W. Norton & Company.
Fallon, Sally (1999), Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats, Newtrends Publishing.
Fraser, Evan and Andrew Rimas (2010), Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations, Free Press.
Fukuoka, Masanobu (2009), One Straw Revolution, NYRB Classics.
Gershuny, Grace and Deborah Martin (1992), The Rodale Book of Composting: Easy Methods for Every Gardener, Rodale Books.
Gillespie, David (2008), Sweet poison: why sugar is making us fat, Viking Australia.
Gliesseman, Stephen (2006), Agroecology: the ecology of sustainable food systems, CRC Press.
Hesterman, Oran (2011), Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All, Public Affairs.
Heyhoe, Kate (2009), Cooking Green: Reducing Your Carbon Footprint in the Kitchen, Da Capo Lifelong Books.
Hopkins, Rob (2008), The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience, Chelsea Green.
Jenkins, Joseph (2005), The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure, Joseph Jenkins.
Keith, Lierre (2009), The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice and Sustainability, PM Press.
Kessler, David (2009), The End of Over-Eating: taking control of our insatiable appetite, Rodale Books.
Kingsolver, Barbara (2008), Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, Harper Perennial.
Lanza, Patricia (1998), Lasagna Gardening: A New Layering System for Bountiful Gardens: No Digging, No Tilling, No Weeding, No Kidding!, Rodale Books.
Lappe, Anna (2010), Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It, Bloomsbury.
Lappe, Frances Moore and Anna Lappe (2003), Hope’s Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet, Tarcher.
Lappe, Frances Moore, Collins, Joseph, Rosset, Peter and Luis Esparza (1998), World Hunger: Twelve Myths, Grove Press.
Lappe, Frances Moore (1991), Diet for a Small Planet, Ballantine Books.
Lawrence, Felicity (2008), Eat Your Heart Out: Why the Food Business is Bad for the Planet and Your Health, Penguin.
Lawrence, Felicity (2005), Not on the Label: What Really Goes Into the Food on Your Plate, Penguin.
Logan, William Bruant (2007), Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth, W.W. Norton & Company.
Menzel, Peter and Faith D’Aluisio (2007), Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, Material World.
Mollison, Bill (1997), Introduction to Permaculture, Ten Speed Press.
Nestle, Marion (2007), Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health, University of California Press.
Nestle, Marion (2007), What to Eat, North Point Press.
O’Brien, Robyn and Rachel Kranz (2010), The Unhealthy Truth: One Mother’s Shocking Investigation into the Dangers of America’s food supply and what every family can do to protect itself, Three Rivers Press.
Patel, Raj (2008), Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, Melville House.
Pennington, Amy (2011), Apartment Gardening: Plants, Projects and Recipes for Growing Food in Your Urban Home, Sasquatch Books.
Petrini, Carlo (2007), Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean and Fair, Rizzoli Ex Libris.
Petrini, Carlo and Gigi Padovani (2006), Slow Food Revolution: A New Culture for Eating and Living, Rizzoli.
Pfeiffer, Dale (2006), Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture, New Society Publishers.
Price, Weston (2008), Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: 8th Edition, Price Pottenger Nutrition.
Pollan, Michael (2009), Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual, Penguin.
Pollan, Michael (2009), In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, Penguin.
Pollan, Michael (2006), The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Penguin.
Pollan, Michael (2002), The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World, Random House.
Roberts, Paul (2008), The End of Food, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Robin, Marie-Monique (2010), The World According to Monsanto: Pollution, Corruption and the Control of the Worlds’ Food Supply, New Press.
Rodale, Maria (2010), Organic Manifesto: How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe, Rodale Books.
Ruppenthal, R. (2008), Fresh Food from Small Spaces: The Square-Inch Gardener’s Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting and Sprouting, Chelsea Green Publishing.
Salatin, Joel (2011) Folks, This Ain’t Normal: A Farmer’s Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
Safran Foer, Jonathan (2010), Eating Animals, Back Bay Books.
Schlosser, Eric (2005), Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, Harper Perennial.
Shanahan, Catherine (2010), Food Rules: a doctor’s guide to healthy eating, Create Space.
Shiva, Vandana (2001), Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply, Zed Books.
Smith, Jeffrey (2003), Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You’re Eating, Yes Books.
Spurlock, Morgan (2006), Don’t Eat this Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America, Berkley Trade.
Spurlock, Morgan (2006), Supersized: Strange Tales from a Fast-Food Culture, Dark Horse.
Standage, Tom (2010), An Edible History of Humanity, Walker & Company.
Steel, Carolyn (2009), Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives, Random House.
Thurow, Roger (2010), Enough: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty, Public Affairs.
Tracey, David (2011), Urban Agriculture: ideas and designs for the new food revolution, New Society Publishers.
Tudge, Colin (2007), Feeding People is Easy, Pari Publishing.
Tudge, Colin (2004), So Shall We Reap, Penguin.
Vileisis, Anne (2010), How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why we Need to Get it Back, Island Press.
Waters, Alice (2007), The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution, Clarkson Potter.
Watson, Linda (2011), Wildly Affordable Organic: Eat Fabulous Food, Get Healthy, and Save the Planet–All on $5 a Day or Less, Da Capo Lifelong Books.
Weber, Karl (Ed.) (2009), Food Inc: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer – And What You Can Do About It, Public Affairs and Participant Media.
Wilson, Charles and Eric Schlosser (2007), Chew on this: everything you don’t want to know about fast food, Houghton Mifflin.
Wood, Rebecca (2010), The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Resource for Healthy Eating, Penguin.
Film and Video
Real Food Now
Food, Inc.
Dirt
Supersize Me
Hope in a Changing Climate
Dan Barber (TED Talk)
Michael Pollan (TED talk)
Willie Smits
The Story of Stuff
Pig 05049 (TED talk)
Media That Matters
How Big Brands Save Biodiversity (TED talk)
The Empathic Civilisation (TED talk)
Supervalue
Drama
Greedy Guts Gets It - a fun mystery play for primary school children to put on, about cops, spots and junk food, written by Katherine Beauchamp, The Director of The New Literacy Programme.
