Recommended Reads

Must-read

• Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health, by Marion Nestle
• Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food, by Warren Belasco
• Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, by Raj Patel

Nice to read

• Remaking the North American Food System: Strategies for Sustainability, edited by C. Claire Hinrichs and Thomas A. Lyson
• Eating in the Light of the Moon, by Anita Johnson. Subtitled "How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food Through Myths, Metaphors, and Storytelling."
• Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet, by Harvey Levenstein
• The Jungle Effect: A Doctor Discovers the Healthiest Diets from Around the World—Why They Work and How to Bring Them Home, by Daphne Miller
• Recipe for America: Why Our Food System is Broken and What We Can Do to Fix It, by Jill Richardson 
• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, by Charles C. Mann, especially Ch. 1, 6, and 8-10.

Fun to read (and also informative)

• Coming Home to Eat, by Gary Paul Nabhan
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Queen of Fats: Why Omega-3s Were Removed from the Western Diet and What We Can Do to Replace Them, by Susan Allport

Updated April 2015.