Books Mentioned in Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food

Though I didn't feel like Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food: an Eater's Manifesto had much material not found in his other writings and talks (click here to view all my posts about this book), it did give me a very long list of books that I may want to read:

• Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization by Richard Manning
• Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods by Gary Paul Nabhan
• Food is Culture by Massimo Moutanari
• Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition, and Health by Marion Nestle
• Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease by Gary Taubes
• How to Grow More Vegetables by John Jeavons
• Know Your Fats: The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils, and Cholesterol by Mary G. Enig
• Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America's Farmers' Markets by Deborah Madison
• Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think by Brian Wansink
• Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America by Harvey Levenstein
• Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century by Laura Shapiro
• Real Food: What to Eat and Why by Nina Planck
• Six Arguments for a Greener Diet: How a More Plant-Based Diet Could Save Your Health and the Environment by Michael F. Jackson
• Soil, Grass, and Cancer by Andre Voisin
• The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health by T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell II
• The Englishman's Food: A History of FIve Centuries of English Diet by J. C. Drummond
• The Forgiveness of Nature: The Story of Grass by Graham Harvey
• The Garden Primer by Barbara Damrosch
• The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural & Agricultural by Wendell Berry
• The Omega Diet: The Lifesaving Nutritional Program Based on the Diet of the Island of Crete by Artemis P Simopoulos & Jo Robinson
• The Primal Feast: Food, Sex, Foraging, and Love by Susan Allport
• The Queen of Fats: Why Omega-3s Were Removed from the Western Diet and What We Can Do to Replace Them by Susan Allport
• The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved by Sandor Ellix Katz
• The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture by Wendell Berry
• The Untold Story of Milk: Green Pastures, Contented Cows and Raw Dairy Products by Ronald Schmid
• This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader by Joan Dye Gusson
• Traditional Foods are Your Best Medicine: Improving Health and Longevity with Native Nutrition by Ronald F. Schmid
• What Are People For?: Essays by Wendell Berry
• Why Some Like It Hot: Foods, Genes, and Cultural Diversity by Gary Paul Nabhan

Whew.

Thankfully I've already read these books mentioned by Pollan:

• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
• Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan