Oran B. Hesterman's Fair Food Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All NY: Public Affairs, 2011 Though viewed through a consistently American lens, Fair Food has much of value to offer readers and eaters beyond those borders. In his introduction, Hesterman draws lines between what others who have written
Elspeth Cameron's And Beauty Answers: The Life of Frances Loring and Florence Wyle Cormorant Books, 2007 It certainly wasn't something that a lot of women were doing in the early 1900s; girls weren't lining up to become sculptors. But Frances Loring and Florence Wyle did just that, meeting in 1906
All year I've been dragging on my reading for the Foodie's Reading Challenge. In the later part of the year I even started to wonder why I'd joined. And then I started reading for it. (Inspired by Dewey's Read-a-Thon.) This is why I join challenges; they seem to keep my
Harper Collins, 2011 I've been fascinated by tales of the resistance movement in WWII since I was a girl. It was sparked by those tales of the brave souls who brought food and goods to the Frank family up in the attic. The idea thrilled me, but I
Hardcover edition, 2006 When the cover of Bitter Chocolate caught her eye, and a co-worker asked me what I was reading, she said "Well, what else would those kids be doing anyway". A brief outline of the child labour practices in the cocoa industry and she could have cared less. She
