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Category Archives: Book Reviews
Why you Can’t Just say No. A book review of Kessler’s “The End of Overeating”
David Kessler. 2010. The End of Overeating. Taking control of the insatiable American appetite. David Kessler was a commissioner at the FDA under two administrations, and a dean of the medical schools at Yale and the University of California, San … Continue reading
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Tagged end of overeating, industrial food, kessler, processed food
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After the Harvest – How do you keep Pests & Varmints away?
Peter Golob, et. al. 2002. Crop Post-Harvest: Science and Technology. Volume 1 Principles and Practice. Volume 2 Durables. Volume 3 Perishables. Introduction It is amazing farmers can grow anything — crops can be destroyed by drought, wildfire, flood, insects, birds, … Continue reading
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Tagged 50 million farmers, back to the land, cool chain, food storage, grain storage, post harvest
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Fire and Why We Exist.
Richard Wrangham. 2009. Catching Fire: How cooking made us human. I’ve always loved creation myths. How we came to be is a question all cultures ask. The Iroquois believed we were created by the Sky People. The Australian Aborigines … Continue reading
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Getting in Touch With Your Inner Neanderthal: The 10,000 Year Explosion
Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending. 2009. The 10,000 Year Explosion. How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution. This book makes the astounding claim that our evolution has sped up 100 times faster in the past 10,000 years than the previous six million … Continue reading
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Tagged 000 year explosion, 10, cochran, corning, evolution, nature's magic, neanderthal, nutrition
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Look Before You Eat – the history of Food Cheating
Bee Wilson. 2008. Swindled. From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee – The Dark History of the Food Cheats. If you’re looking for a way to lose weight, many of the hideous and frightening examples of food adulteration in this book … Continue reading
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Tagged cheat, counterfeit, food, swindling
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