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Grocery

by Michael Ruhlman • 2017

A $650 billion engine. How the American grocery store shapes our health, culture, and daily lives.

3.78

3k+

🛒 Grocery History 🍩 Processed Food 📢 Food Marketing 🔬 Nutrition Science 🍳 Home Cooking

Grocery

A $650 billion engine. How the American grocery store shapes our health, culture, and daily lives.

by Michael Ruhlman 2017 307 pages

3.78

3k+ ratings

🛒 Grocery History 🍩 Processed Food 📢 Food Marketing 🔬 Nutrition Science 🍳 Home Cooking

Wild Chocolate

by Rowan Jacobsen • 2024

Two-thirds of chocolate comes from a monoculture disaster. The antidote grows wild in the Amazon.

4.12

500+

📜 Food History ✈️ Culinary Travel 🍫 Chocolate History 🫙 Fermentation 🌳 Agroforestry

Wild Chocolate

Two-thirds of chocolate comes from a monoculture disaster. The antidote grows wild in the Amazon.

by Rowan Jacobsen 2024 288 pages

4.12

500+ ratings

📜 Food History ✈️ Culinary Travel 🍫 Chocolate History 🫙 Fermentation 🌳 Agroforestry

Food Intelligence

by Julia Belluz • 2025

Ultra-processed food makes you eat 500 extra calories daily, and willpower is not the answer

3.86

500+

🔬 Nutrition Science 🚜 Food Systems 🍩 Ultra-Processed Foods 🥊 Diet Myth Debunking 📜 Food Policy

Food Intelligence

Ultra-processed food makes you eat 500 extra calories daily, and willpower is not the answer

by Julia Belluz 2025 352 pages

3.86

500+ ratings

🔬 Nutrition Science 🚜 Food Systems 🍩 Ultra-Processed Foods 🥊 Diet Myth Debunking 📜 Food Policy

ROOTS OF SOUTHERN POPULISM

by Steven Hahn • 1985

Before Populism, Georgia's yeomen lost their land and independence to merchants, cotton, and debt.

3.78

🌾 Agrarian History 🔨 Reconstruction Era 🌱 Sharecropping 👥 Class Formation 🐄 Common Rights

ROOTS OF SOUTHERN POPULISM

Before Populism, Georgia's yeomen lost their land and independence to merchants, cotton, and debt.

by Steven Hahn 1985 373 pages

3.78

74 ratings

🌾 Agrarian History 🔨 Reconstruction Era 🌱 Sharecropping 👥 Class Formation 🐄 Common Rights

Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal

by Joel Salatin • 2007

Government says raw milk and teenage farmhands are crimes. One sustainable farmer's legal war.

4.20

2k+

🧑‍🌾 Sustainable Agriculture 🏘️ Local Food Systems 🏭 Factory Farming Critique 🌾 Agrarianism 🚜 Farming Memoirs

Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal

Government says raw milk and teenage farmhands are crimes. One sustainable farmer's legal war.

by Joel Salatin 2007 358 pages

4.20

2k+ ratings

🧑‍🌾 Sustainable Agriculture 🏘️ Local Food Systems 🏭 Factory Farming Critique 🌾 Agrarianism 🚜 Farming Memoirs

Dark Emu

by Bruce Pascoe • 2014

Early reports found Aboriginal farms and dams; the hunter-gatherer label was a colonial lie.

4.27

16k+

🌱 Indigenous Agriculture 🏞️ Pre-Colonial Australia 🔥 Fire Ecology 📜 Colonial Erasure ⚔️ Australian Frontier History

Dark Emu

Early reports found Aboriginal farms and dams; the hunter-gatherer label was a colonial lie.

by Bruce Pascoe 2014 176 pages

4.27

16k+ ratings

🌱 Indigenous Agriculture 🏞️ Pre-Colonial Australia 🔥 Fire Ecology 📜 Colonial Erasure ⚔️ Australian Frontier History

Folks, This Ain't Normal

by Joel Salatin • 2011

Food that travels 1,500 miles, animals that never graze, costs hidden: a farmer's case for normal.

4.21

4k+

🌱 Sustainable Agriculture 🏘️ Local Food Systems 🌍 Soil Regeneration 🗳️ Food Politics 🐄 Pasture-Based Farming

Folks, This Ain't Normal

Food that travels 1,500 miles, animals that never graze, costs hidden: a farmer's case for normal.

by Joel Salatin 2011 384 pages

4.21

4k+ ratings

🌱 Sustainable Agriculture 🏘️ Local Food Systems 🌍 Soil Regeneration 🗳️ Food Politics 🐄 Pasture-Based Farming

The Great Plant-Based Con

by Jayne Buxton • 2022

The data against meat is mostly weak associations. The fortune behind the plant-based push is not.

3.52

343

🥩 Nutrition Myths 🗳️ Food Politics 🌿 Regenerative Agriculture 🦴 Ancestral Diets 🏢 Food Industry Critique

The Great Plant-Based Con

The data against meat is mostly weak associations. The fortune behind the plant-based push is not.

by Jayne Buxton 2022 529 pages

3.52

343 ratings

🥩 Nutrition Myths 🗳️ Food Politics 🌿 Regenerative Agriculture 🦴 Ancestral Diets 🏢 Food Industry Critique

Cattle Kingdom

by Christopher Knowlton • 2017

The Wild West was a speculative bubble fueled by British aristocrats and popped by a single winter.

4.10

1k+

🤠 American West 🐄 Cattle Industry 📈 Economic History 💥 Boom And Bust 💰 Gilded Age

Cattle Kingdom

The Wild West was a speculative bubble fueled by British aristocrats and popped by a single winter.

by Christopher Knowlton 2017 426 pages

4.10

1k+ ratings

🤠 American West 🐄 Cattle Industry 📈 Economic History 💥 Boom And Bust 💰 Gilded Age

Growing Marijuana Box Set

by Alfonso Garcia • 2021

From first seed to cured harvest: grow marijuana indoors or out, beginner or advanced.

1.00

🪴 Marijuana Cultivation 🏠 Indoor Gardening 💧 Hydroponics 🌱 Grow Your Own 💊 Cannabis Medicine

Growing Marijuana Box Set

From first seed to cured harvest: grow marijuana indoors or out, beginner or advanced.

by Alfonso Garcia 2021 108 pages

1.00

1 ratings

🪴 Marijuana Cultivation 🏠 Indoor Gardening 💧 Hydroponics 🌱 Grow Your Own 💊 Cannabis Medicine

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