Title: Locavore: From Farmers’ Fields to Rooftop Gardens – How Canadians are Changing the Way We Eat Author: Sarah Elton Publication Year: 2010 Pages: 272 Genre: Non-Fiction Source: Bought from Chapters.ca In Locavore, Elton discusses the various ways that Canadians are changing the way we look at food. She starts out the book by recounting [...]

Friday Finds is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading. Below are a few of the great books that I found/discovered this week. One day, I shall hunt them down and devour them! Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat Author: Temra Costa Published: 2010 About: “As nurturers and caretakers of the health [...]

Title: Food Rules Author: Michael Pollan Publication Year: 2009 Pages: 112 Genre: Non-Fiction Source: Bought from Chapters.ca This was a really quick read – less than an hour. I bought Food Rules at the same time as I bought The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food, figuring that it would be different enough to [...]

Friday Finds is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading. Below are a few of the great books that I found/discovered this week. One day, I shall hunt them down and devour them! The Art of Eating In: How I Learned to Stop Spending and Love the Stove Author: Cathy Erway Published: 2010 About: [...]

Title: In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto Author: Michael Pollan Publication Year: 2008 Pages: 244 Genre: Non-Fiction Source: Bought from Chapters.ca I waited a couple weeks to read this book after finishing The Omnivore’s Dilemma, because I figured that it would cover much of the same material. For different reasons, I wasn’t quite right [...]