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• Food Tank released a book list that encompasses issues in the sustainable food world including obesity, malnutrition, food systems, and more.

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Food Tank has collected 20 of the best new books in food and agriculture to celebrate spring. Our favorite reads this season cover critical topics including the paradox of obesity and malnutrition, building strong communities through socially-conscious food systems, and the essential link between food and health. Below are fifteen of the twenty 'food reads' from the list:

  1. Bread is Gold, Massimo Bottura
  2. Eat a Little Better: Great Flavor, Good Health, Better World, Sam Kass
  3. The Faces of Local Food: Celebrating the People Who Feed Us, Charlotte Caldwell
  4. Food from the Radical Center: Healing Our Land and Communities, Gary Paul
  5. Food Is the Solution: What to Eat to Save the World, Matthew Prescott
  6. The Fruit Forager’s Companion, Sara Bir  Forthcoming May 25, 2018
  7. Fruitful Labor: Deep Ecology of a Small Farm, Mike Madison
  8. How to Feed the World, Jessica Eise (editor) and Ken Foster (editor)
  9. Knowing Where It Comes From: Labeling Traditional Foods to Compete in a Global Market, Fabio Parasecoli
  10. The Lost Crops Of Africa, National Research Council (National Academies Press)
  11. The New Farm: Our Ten Years on the Front Lines of the Good Food Revolution, Brent Preston
  12. A New Global Agenda: Priorities, Practices, & Pathways of the International Community, Diana Ayton-Shenker (editor)
  13. No One Eats Alone: Food as a Social Enterprise, Michael S. Carolan
  14. Nourished Planet: Sustainability in the Global Food System, Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition and Danielle Nierenberg (editor)  Forthcoming in June 2018.
  15. Our Native Bees: North America’s Endangered Pollinators and the Fight to Save Them, Paige Embry

Read the rest of the food read book list by Elliott Brennan at Food Tank