Episode 9: Recommended Reads from the FoodScape
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Looking for some holiday reading?  Seeing as it’s the Borders Book Festival in the middle of this month, here are a handful of food-writing classics to whet your appetite. These are all fantastic reads into the politics, philosophy, science and culture of food.  Buon apetito! - - - - - - - - - - - -  The FoodScape Recommended Reads: ’How to Cook a Wolf’ - MFK Fisher, 1942. North Point Press. ’Rooted: How Regenerative Farming can Change the World’ - Sarah Langford, 2022. Penguin. ’The Virtues of the Table: How to Eat and Think’ - Julian Baggini, 2014. Granta. ’First Bite: How We Learn to Eat’ - Bee Wilson, 2015. Fourth Estate. ’Sitopia: How Food Can Save the World’ - Carolyn Steel, 2020. Vintage. ’The Diet Myth: The Real Science Behind What We Eat’ - Tim Spector, 2015. Orion. ’The Hidden Half of Nature’ - Montgomery and Bikle, 2016. Norton. ’Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation’ - Michael Pollan, 2013. Allen Lane. ’The Art of Fermentatoin’ - Sandor Katz, 2012. Chelsea Green. - - - - - - - -  Presented by Charlotte Maberly
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