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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The Great American Recipe is a new uplifting cooking competition that celebrates the multiculturalism that makes American food unique and iconic. Hosted by Alejandra Ramos, the series gives talented home cooks from different regions of the country the opportunity to showcase their beloved signature dishes and compete to win the national search forTHE GREAT AMERICAN RECIPE. Judges Leah Cohen, Tiffany Derry and Graham Elliot bring their professional...
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When New York City’s Chinatown was hit hard early on in January 2020 due to the coronavirus, partners Moonlynn Tsai and Yin Chang weren’t content to just be bystanders. Local businesses were closing their doors, and members of the community were being violently attacked due to racism and xenophobia. Tsai, as co-owner of Malaysian restaurant Kopitiam, decided to use her restaurant as an anchor for “Heart of Dinner,” a community relief effort...
6) Fat Fiction
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Leading health experts examine the history of the U.S. Dietary Guidelines and question decades of dietary advice insisting that saturated fats are bad for us.
7) The Moo Man
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Modern British dairy farms must get bigger and bigger or go under, but Farmer Stephen Hook decides to buck the trend.
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Chef and Italian immigrant Lidia Bastianich shares stories of first, second and third-generation Americans shaping the shifting definition of what it means to be an American. As America grows more diverse than ever before, immigrants must figure out how much of their culture to keep and what to leave behind, and many are more openly sharing their heritage with a new country they now call home.
9) Soufra
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Arabic
Description
South of Beirut, Lebanon is a 68 year old refugee camp housing refugees from Palestine, Syria and Iraq. Many have lived in this camp their entire lives-- Mariam AlShaar is one of them. Now, Mariam has pulled the women of this camp together to do what has never been done before. They started with a small kitchen from a micro-loan. With nearly insurmountable political odds against them-- they look to start the first refugee food truck. Their journey...
10) Food Sail Love
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A stunning voyage of food, culture and friendship along the alluring coastlines of Italy Greece, Turkey and France – these are the tales of the classic yacht Barinia and her family of 25 years – Narelle, the chef, and Patrick, the skipper.
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
General Tso's chicken is a staple of Chinese-American cooking, and a ubiquitous presence on restaurant menus across the country. But just who was General Tso? And how did his chicken become emblematic of an entire national cuisine? Director Ian Cheney (King Corn) journeys from Shanghai to New York to the American Midwest and beyond to uncover the origins of this iconic dish, turning up surprising revelations and a host of humorous characters along...
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Educates, engages, and asks people to pay closer attention to how they eat, what they buy, and their responsibility for creating a healthier, safer food system in America.
Featuring stunning visuals and more than 200 agricultural terms and their definitions as described by today's leaders in food and farming, Local: The New Face of Food and Farming in America showcases and explores the rapidly growing subculture of sustainable farming. When Douglas...
13) The hundred-year lie: how to protect yourself from the chemicals that are destroying your health
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English
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In a devastating exposé in the tradition of Silent Spring and Fast Food Nation, investigative journalist Randall Fitzgerald warns how thousands of man-made chemicals in our food, water, medicine, and environment are making humans the most polluted species on the planet. A century ago, when Congress enacted the Pure Food and Drug Act, Americans were promised “better living through chemistry.” Fitzgerald...
14) Green farming
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"This STEM-based set of True Books introduces students to the engineering innovations that can help us reach more environmentally friendly goals"--
"Envision a brighter future with this STEM-based subset of True Books.Thanks to the development of agriculture, our Earth can feed the almost 8 billion people that call it home. But the challenge facing us today is how to make the practice of large-scalefarming sustainable. We have learned how to use...
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