The Common Book Program

at Windward Community College

Fall, 2004

Fast Food Nation

Resources at the WCC Library

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Health and Nutrition

The Future of Food by Brian Ford (HB72 .F67 2000)

Contemporary Nutrition: Issues and Insights by Gordon Wardlaw (QP141 .W378 2003)

The Fats of Life by Caroline Pond (QP751 .P645 1998)

Nutrition for Women: the Complete Guide by Elizabeth Somer (RA778.S647 1993)

The Complete Book of Food: A Nutritional, Medical and Culinary Guide by Carol Ann Rinzler (TX358.R525 1987)

Fiction

Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers by Lois-Ann Yamanaka (PS3575.A434 W55 1996)

The Windward Community College Library also has a wide range of cookbooks, located in the "TX" section of the Main Collection.

The Politics and Economics of Food

Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History by Sidney Mintz (GT2869.M56 1985)

Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health by Marion Nestle ( TX360.U6 N47 2002 )

McDonald's: Behind the Arches by John Love (TX945.5.M33L68 1986)

Jihad vs. McWorld by Benjamin Barber (HM201 .B37 1995)

Designer Food : Mutant Harvest or Breadbasket of the World? by Gregory E. Pence (TP248.65.F66 P46 2002)

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, by Barbara Ehrenreich (HD4918 .E375 2001)

Environment

Shattering : Food, Politics, and the Loss of Genetic Diversity by Cary Fowler (SB175 .F68 1990)

Pandora's Picnic Basket : The Potential and Hazards of Genetically Modified Foods by Alan McHughen (TP248.65.F66M37 2000)

The State of the World (HC59 .S734)

The History and Meaning of Food

Much Depends on Dinner : the Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos, of an Ordinary Meal by Margaret Visser ( GT2860 .V57 1987 )

The Food Chronology: A Food Lover's Compendium of Events and Anecdotes, From Prehistory to the Present by James Trager (TX355.T72 1995)

The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo (GT2910.D6 1956)

Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture and the Past by Sidney Mintz (GT2850.M58 1996)

Consumed: Why Americans Love, Hate, and Fear Food by Michelle Stacey (GT2853.U5S73 1994)

From Honey to Ashes by Claude Lévi-Strauss (F2230.1.F6 L413 1983)

Movies

Clerks (DVD #67)

Other Suggested Resources

Books

Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine, by Candace Pert

Saving the Planet With Pesticides and Plastic: The Environmental Triumph of High-Yield Farming by Dennis Avery

Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply by Vandana Shiva

Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry by Gail Eisnitz

Deadly Feasts : Tracking The Secrets Of A Terrifying New Plague by Richard Rhodes

Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy by Kim Moody

More Books

The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair

Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture by Andrew Kimbrell

Fatal Harvest Reader by Andrew Kimbrell

Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth by John Robbins

All You Can Eat: Greed, Lust and the New Capitalism by Linda McQuaig

The McDonaldization of Society: An Investigation into the Changing Character of Contemporary Social Life by George Ritzer

Movies

Brazil

Delicatessin

Babette's Feast

Pennsylvania PA

Soylent Green

Supersize Me (in theatres)

Chocolate