Compiled by dee Hobsbawn-Smith for Slow Food Calgary
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan (Penguin)
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan (Penguin)
Slow Food Revolution: A New Culture for Eating and Living by Carlo Petrini (Rizzoli)
In Praise of Slow: How a World-wide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed by Carl Honore (Knopf)
The Pleasures of Slow Food: Celebrating Authentic Traditions by Corby Krummer (Chronicle Books)
The Slow Food Story: Politics and Pleasure by Geoff Andrews (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
Slow Food Nation’s Come to the Table: The Slow Way of Living (Rodale)
The 100 Mile Die: A Year of Local Eating by Alisa Smith & JB MacKinnon (Vintage)
Animal Vegetable Miracle: A Year of Food Like by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper Collins)
The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry (Counterpoint)
From the Good Earth by Michael Ableman (Harry N. Abrams)
Fields of Plenty by Michael Ableman (Raincoast)
On Good Land by Michael Ableman (Raincoast)
Invisible Giant: Cargill and its Transnational Strategies by Brewster Kneen
Cod: A Bibliography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky (Random House)
The Way We Eat: Why Out Food Choices Matter by Peter Singer (Rodale)
Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Meaning by Vandana Shiva (South End Press)
Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis by Vandana Shiva (South End Press)
The End of Food: How the Food Industry is Destroying Our Food Supply – and What We Can Do About It by Thomas Pawlick (Barricade)
Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods by Gary Paul Nabhan
Apples to Oysters: A Food Lover’s Tour of Canadian Farms by Margaret Webb (Viking)
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health by Marion Nestle (University of California Press(
Feeding the Future: From Fat to Famine, How to Survive the World’s Food Crisis ed Andrew Heintzman and Evan Soloman (Anansi)
Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World’s Food System by RajPatel (Harper Collins)
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American meal by Eric Schlosser (Houghton Mifflin)
The Ethical Gourmet by Jay Weinstein (Broadway)
The Sustainable Kitchen by Stu Stein (New Society Publishers)
For Hunger-Proof Cities: Sustainable Urban Food Systems ed. Mustafa Koc, Rod MacRae, Luc J. A. Mougeot and Jennifer Welsh (International Development Research)
Local Flavours by Deborah Madison (Broadway)
The Art of Simple Food by Alice Waters (Potter)
dee Hobsbawn-Smith is a farmer’s daughter who has cultivated her passion for food into multi-faceted culinary career. Her work as a classically trained chef, caterer, talented baker and restaurateur has been succeeded by a second successful career as a best-selling author, award-winning food writer and popular culinary educator and speaker. dee is a fifth-generation prairie dweller and she has two sons.