The Food We Eat: New Ways of Thinking About Food

Red Bank Branch has two upcoming events concerning our food and where it comes from.

On Wednesday September 24 at 6:30pm Marvin Kemper and Joe Schalansky of Seton Harvest will be speaking. Seton Harvest is a CSA, or community supported agriculture project.

Next, on Wednesday October 15 at 6:30pm Suzan Ozel of the River City Food Co-op will be speaking. The River City Food Co-op is a local source for whole foods, organic foods and local produce.

If you're interested in learning more about the food we eat, try these titles:

• The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America's Underground Food Movements by Sandor Ellix Katz
• Simply in Season: A World Community Cookbook by Mary Beth Lind and Cathleen Hockman-Wert
• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
• Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Food by Gary Paul Nabhan
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver
• Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty by Mark Winne
• Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
• Feeding People is Easy by Colin Tudge
• Everything I Want To Do is Illegal by Joel Salatin