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Culinary Arts: Food Issues

This is a guide to information resources in the field of culinary arts.

Reference Books for Food Issues

Encyclopedia of Agriculture and Food Systems
What a Waste: A Global Snapshot on Solid Waste Management to 2050
Encyclopedia of Junk Food and Fast Food
Green Food
Encyclopedia of Organic, Sustainable, and Local Food

Books for Food Issues

Food for the Future
The Omnivore's Dilemma: a natural history of four meals
In Defense of Food: an eater's manifesto
The Third Plate : field notes on the future of food
Food Chains: from farmyard to shopping cart
Food Politics: how the food industry influences nutrition and health
Bet the Farm: how food stopped being food
The Chain: farm, factory, and the fate of our food
Feeding Frenzy: land grabs, price spikes, and the world food crisis
Foodopoly: the battle over the future of food and farming in America
Closing the Food Gap : resetting the table in the land of plenty
Food Justice
Waste : uncovering the global food scandal
American Wasteland: how America throws away nearly half of its food (and what we can do about it)
Freegans: diving into the wealth of food waste in America
Salt Sugar Fat: how the food giants hooked us
Pandora's Lunchbox: how processed food took over the American meal
Fast Food Nation: the dark side of the all-American meal
Food, Inc.: Mendel to Monsanto--the promises and perils of the biotech harvest
Four Fish: the future of the last wild food
American Catch : the fight for our local seafood
Overfishing: what everyone needs to know
Big Chicken: the incredible story of how antibiotics created modern agriculture and changed the way the world eats
Meat Planet: Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food
Defending Beef: the case for sustainable meat production
Genetically Modified Foods: basics, applications, and controversy
The World According to Monsanto: pollution, corruption, and the control of the world's food supply
Mendel in the Kitchen: a scientist's view of genetically modified foods
Beyond Animal Rights: food, pets and ethics
The Foie Gras Wars : how a 5,000-year-old delicacy inspired the world's fiercest food fight
Organic Food, Farming and Culture
Slow Food Revolution : a new culture for eating and living
Slow Food: The Case for Taste
Locavore Adventures: One Chef's Slow Food Journey
Behind the Kitchen Door

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Useful Subject Headings

subject headings for books about food-related issues
food habits natural foods
agriculture food industry
food supply food consumption
food - marketing nutrition policy
meat industry chicken industry
food processing factory farms
food security poverty
hunger sustainable agriculture
grocery trade waste disposal
dumpster diving food waste
processed foods food additives
fast food restaurants convenience food
genetically modified food biotechnology
fishery management local foods
fish trade sustainable fisheries
food borne diseases meat substitutes
artificial foods animal rights
organic farming slow food movement
locavores food service workers
   

 

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