Food Tank’s Spring and Summer 2015 favorites

Our friends at Food Tank – one of the best  and most thoughtful web sites on the Internet – offers a sampler of 20  interesting and thought-provoking books that will take you from planting to harvest time.  Here’s how to check out the whole list Food Tank 20 Spring Books

Several  favorites include:

Maria Finn’s  A Little Piece of Earth: How to Grow Your Own Food in Small Spaces – from sprouting your own shitake mushrooms to building a vineyard trellis

David Kennedy’s Eat Your Greens: The Surprising Power of Homegrown Leaf Crops  sweet potato, okra and more

Philip Lymbery’s analysis of farm animals in the global food industry is featured in Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat

Summer Tomatoes (CC 3.0 Bobbie Faul-Zeitler)

From the Green News Update archives:

More books! Our original story features 15 in-print books on what we crave (salt, sugar, fat), love, obsess about,  how we taste, why it’s difficult to control our food supply to ensure we are eating what’s healthy and stay away from what’s not. Take a look

Even more food books: Several  of our favorite books on the City of Light (yes, that’s Paris ) featured last summer in our Homage a Paris are food memoirs, culinary traditions and the gastronomic obsessions of the French,  by Patricia Wells, Alice B. Toklas, and Julia Child. Here’s the link 

Julia tasting in her tv kitchen Photo by Stephanie Early Green

Check back this summer for more books recommended by Green News Update – stories from great blogs and our own!