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"Is Italian olive oil really Italian, or are we dipping our bread in lamp oil? Why are we masochistically drawn to foods that can hurt us, like hot peppers? Far from being a classic American dish, is apple pie actually...English? 'As a species, we're hardwired to obsess over food,' Matt Siegel explains as he sets out 'to uncover the hidden side of everything we put in our mouths.' Siegel also probes subjects ranging from the myths--and realities--of...
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"You've seen the headlines: Parmesan cheese made from wood pulp. Lobster rolls containing no lobster at all. Extra-virgin olive oil that isn't. So many fake foods are in our supermarkets, our restaurants, and our kitchen cabinets that it's hard to know what we're eating anymore. In Real Food/Fake Food, award-winning journalist Larry Olmsted convinces us why real food matters and empowers consumers to make smarter choices. Olmsted brings readers into...
3) Little Pea
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IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Little Pea hates eating candy for dinner, but his parents will not let him have his spinach dessert until he cleans his plate.
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Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described as a national eating disorder. Will it be fast food tonight, or something organic? Or perhaps something we grew ourselves? The question of what to have for dinner has confronted us since man discovered fire. But as Michael Pollan explains in this revolutionary book, how we answer it now, at the dawn of the twenty-first century may determine our survival...
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IL: UG - BL: 10.2 - AR Pts: 26
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Moss, the investigative reporter behind the "pink slime" expose, traces the rise of the processed food industry over the last five decades. He describes how the addictive additives of salt, sugar, and fat have created a nation of "heavy users:" the companies' term for their most ardent customers. Moss also reveals the deliberate corporate practices--from chemical manipulation of the additives to marketing campaigns adapted from tobacco companies--that...
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"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan's thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real."...
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Welcome to Ree's new frontier! Much has happened on Drummond Ranch over the last couple of years: The kids are growing up, another left for college, Ree's business has expanded, and her cooking has evolved. While she still cherishes her trademark family-friendly style of food, Ree been cooking up some incredible new dishes that reflect the flavors, colors, and texture she's craving these days.
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"What do you make when a mermaid comes for dinner? A meal that's marvelous for your mermaid guest (and pretty tasty for you, too)! Start with a fizzy underwater-themed lemonade and some cheesy seashell-shaped crackers. For the main course, cook up some fresh seaweed (green pasta!) and shrimp. Then, end it all with an ice cream dessert that will remind your mermaid friend of home. Don't forget to explore more about mermaid myths and tall tails so you...
12) Food fix: how to save our health, our economy, our communities, and our planet--one bite at a time
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"Food is our most powerful tool to reverse the global epidemic of chronic disease, heal the environment, reform politics, and revive economies. What we eat has tremendous implications not just for our waistlines, but also for the planet, society, and the global economy. What we do to our bodies, we do to the planet; and what we do to the planet, we do to our bodies. In Food Fix, #1 bestselling author Mark Hyman explains how our food and agriculture...
15) Paletero man
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IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
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"Follow along with our narrator as he passes through his busy neighborhood in search of the Paletero Man. But when he finally catches up with him, our narrator's pockets are empty. Oh no! What happened to his dinero? It will take the help of the entire community to get the tasty treat now."--
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Growing your own food means you know there are no chemical or genetic secrets, that it is pure and good. But you have questions about what and how much to plant, how to store, how to preserve. Pleasant provides a guidebook for people who want to control their food, from garden to pantry to table.
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Dragons love tacos volume 1
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Explores the love dragons have for tacos, and the dangers of feeding them anything with spicy salsa.
18) BooBoo
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IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
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BooBoo the gosling likes to eat from morning until night and thinks everything is "good food"--well, almost everything!
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"A radically practical guide to making food choices that are good for you, others, and the planet. Is organic really worth it? Are eggs ok to eat? If so, which ones are best for you, and for the chicken -- Cage-Free, Free-Range, Pasture-Raised? What about farmed salmon, soy milk, sugar, gluten, fermented foods, coconut oil, almonds? Thumbs-up, thumbs-down, or somewhere in between? Using three criteria -- Is it good for me? Is it good for others? Is...
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