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What are we eating?

The politics, science, and history behind the food we eat.

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19 items

  • Ultra-processed People

    the Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

    Tulleken, Chris van, 1978-
    (Also available as ebook.)
    Book, 2023New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2023. — 664 TULLEKEN
  • Hooked

    Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions

    Moss, Michael, 1955-
    (Also available as e-audiobook.)
    Book, 2021New York : Random House, 2021. — 613.2 MOSS
  • Frostbite

    How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves

    Twilley, Nicola,
    Book, 2024New York : Penguin Press, 2024. — 621.5609 TWILLEY
  • Book, 2021New York : The Penguin Press, 2021. — 641.013 WATERS
  • (Also available in larger print and as ebook and e-audiobook.)
    Book, 2016New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. — 613.28332 TAUBES
  • The Way We Eat Now

    How the Food Revolution Has Transformed Our Lives, Our Bodies, and Our World

    Wilson, Bee,
    (Also available as e-audiobook.)
    Book, 2019New York : Basic Books, 2019. — 641.013 WILSON
  • The Dorito Effect

    the Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor

    Schatzker, Mark
    Book, 2015New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015. — 641.3 SCHATZKER
  • Lost Feast

    Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food

    Newman, Lenore, 1973-
    (Also available as ebook and e-auddiobook.)
    Book, 2019Toronto, Ontario, Canada : ECW Press, [2019] — 363.8 NEWMAN
  • Real Food Fake Food

    Why You Don't Know That You're Eating and What You Can Do About It

    Olmsted, Larry, 1966-
    (Also available as ebook and e-audiobook.)
    Book, 2017Chapel Hill : Algonquin Books, 2017. — 641.3 OLMSTED 2017
  • Metabolical

    the Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine

    Lustig, Robert H.,
    (Also available as ebook and e-audiobook.)
    Book, 2021New York : HarperWave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] — 616.044 LUSTIG
  • Diet, Drugs, and Dopamine

    the New Science of Achieving a Healthy Weight

    Kessler, David A., 1951-
    (Also available as ebook.)
    Book, 2025New York : Flatiron Books, 2025. — 613.25 KESSLER
  • The Secret Life of Groceries

    Stories of Love and Greed From the American Supermarket

    Lorr, Benjamin,
    (Also available as e-audiobook.)
    Book, 2020New York : Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2020. — 381.4564 LORR
  • Unsavory Truth

    How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat

    Nestle, Marion,
    (Also available as ebook and e-audiobook.)
    Book, 2018New York : Basic Books, [2018] — 664.00973 NESTLE
  • White Burgers, Black Cash

    Fast Food From Black Exclusion to Exploitation

    Kwate, Naa Oyo A.,
    Book, 2023Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2023. — 305.89607 KWATE
  • Big Chicken

    the Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats

    McKenna, Maryn
    (Also available as e-audiobook.)
    Book, 2017Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2017] — 636.50896 McKENNA
  • Pandora's Lunchbox

    How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal

    Warner, Melanie
    (Also available as e-audiobook.)
    Book, 2013New York : Scribner, [2013] — 338.47664 WARNER
  • Food or Fiction?

    The Truth About the Ultraprocessed Foods Making America Sick

    Kessler, David A.
    eAudiobook, 2024HarperCollins, 2024
  • Fast Food Genocide

    How Processed Food Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It

    Fuhrman, Joel
    (Also available as ebook and e-audiobook.)
    Book, 2017New York, NY : HarperOne, [2017] — 613.2 FUHRMAN
  • How Not to Die

    Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

    Greger, Michael
    (Also available as ebook and e-audiobook.)
    Book, 2015New York : Flatiron Books, 2015. — 613.2 GREGOR