CBC Documentaries

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Suggesting Reading

  • “The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession” - Adam Gollner
  • “The Sushi Economy: Globalization & the Making of a Modern Delicacy” - Sasha Issenberg
  • “The United States of Arugula: How we Became a Gourmet Nation” – David Kamp
  • “Fast Food Nation” – Eric Schlosser
  • “Mindless Eating” – Dr. Brian Wansink
  • “Food Politics” – Marion Nestle
  • “Heat” – Bill Buford
  • “Organic, Inc.” – Samuel Fromartz
  • “Paradox of Plenty” – Harvey Levenstein
  • “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” – Michael Pollan
  • “In Defense of Food” – Michael Pollan
  • “The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating”— Alisa Smith
  • “A Movable Feast” –Kenneth F. Kiple
  • “Dictionnaire des mots de la table: Histoire, langue, patrimoine—Tristan Horde
  • “Histoire De La Cuisine Et Des Cuisiniers”—Jean-Pierre Poulain
  • “Gastropolis: Food and New York City—Edited by Annie Hauck-Lawson and Jonathan Deutsch

Links

Episode One: The Great Food Revolution

Episode Two: The Battle to get on your Plate

Episode Three: 24 Hours, 24 Million Meals: Feeding New York

Episode 4: Food of the Future