The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
Baltimore Food and Faith Project
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RECOMMENDED READING
Titles that are placed in bold are those which we have in our lending library. To learn about how you can
borrow one of these books, please contact us at (410) 502-5069 or [email protected].
Food and Spirituality
Top Choices
Art of the Inner Meal: Eating as a Spiritual Path, by Donald Altman
Breaking Bread: The Spiritual Significance of Food, by Sara Covin Juengst
Feasting with God: Adventures in Table Spirituality, by Holly Whitcomb
Feeding the Body, Nourishing the Soul: Essentials of Eating for Physical,
Emotional and Spiritual Well-Being, by Deborah Kesten
Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating, by Norman Wirzba
Food & Faith: Justice, Joy and Daily Bread, edited by Michael Schut, Earth Ministry
Food for Life: The Spirituality and Ethics of Eating, by L. Shannon Jung
Sharing Food: Christian Practices for Enjoyment, by L. Shannon Jung
Spiritual Growth through Domestic Gardening, by Al Fritsch
“The Pleasures of Eating” From the volume of essays entitled, What are People For? By Wendell Berry
The Kabbalah of Food, by Rabbi Nilton Bonder
The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony, by Will Tuttle
Tomato Blessings and Radish Teachings: Recipes and Reflections, by Edward Espe Brown
Other Great Books/Essays
A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics, edited by Paul Waldau and Kimberley
Patton
Acceptable Genes? Religious Traditions and Genetically Modified Foods, Edited by Harold Coward and
Conrad Brunk
Agriculture with a Human Face: A Value System to Sustain an Agricultural Rural People, by National Catholic
Rural Life Conference
An Earth-Careful Way of Life: Christian Stewardship and the Environmental Crisis, by Lionel Basney
An Ethics of Bidiversity: Christianity, Ecology, and the Variety of Life, by Kevin J. O’Brien
Bless this Food: Ancient and Contemporary Graces from Around the World, by Adrian Butash
Bumping into God in the Kitchen: Savory Stories of Food, Family, and Faith, by Fr. Dominic Grassi
Caretakers of Creation: Farmers Reflect on Their Faith and Work, by Patrick Slattery
Cooking for Christ: Your Kitchen Prayerbook, by National Catholic Rural Life Conference
Earth Trek: Celebrating and Sustaining God’s Creation, by Joanne Moyer
Farming by the Book: Food, Farming, and the Environment in the Bible and in the Qur-an, by Gary W. Fick.
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Food and Judaism, Edited by Leonard Greenspoon, Ronald Simkins, and Gerald Shapiro
Food, Farming, and Faith, by Gary W. Fink
For I was Hungry and You Gave Me Food: Catholic Reflections on Food, Farmers and Farmworkers, by the
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Harvest in the Balance: Food, Justice and Biotechnology, edited by Mark Siemens, Mennonite Central
Committee.
If the Buddha Came to Dinner, by Hale Sofia Schatz
Judaism and Vegetarianism, by Dr. Richard Schwartz
Justice in the Global Food System: A Faith Perspective on Food Security, by National Catholic Rural Life
Conference.
Like a Garden: Biblical Spirituality of Growth, by Sara Covin Juengst
Reclaiming America: Restoring Nature to Culture, by Richard Cartwright Austin
Scripture, Culture, Agriculture—Reading the Bible through Agrarian Eyes, by Dr. Ellen Davis with a
foreword by Wendell Berry
Sustainable Agriculture: A Christian Ethic of Gratitude, by Mark E. Graham
The Green Bible, HarperOne Publishers
The Jewish Gardening Cookbook: Growing Plants and Cooking for Holidays and Festivals, by Michael
Brown
Theology of the Land, by Leonard Weber, Walter Bruggemann, C. Dean Freudenberger, John Hart, and
Richard Cartwright Austin
Vegetarian Judaism: A Guide for Everyone, by Roberta Kalechofsky
Wake Up and Cook: Kitchen Buddhism in Work and Recipes, edited by Carole Tonkinson
World Food Security: A Catholic View of Food Policy in the New Millennium, by Martin M. McLaughlin
Food Production and Food Choice
Top Choices
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver
Chew on This, by Eric Schlosser
Eat Here, by Brian Halweil
Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser
Food Politics, by Marion Nestle
Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating, by Jane Goodall
In Defense of Food, by Michael Pollan
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan
The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat (Young Readers Edition),
by Michael Pollan
Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply, by Vandana Shiva
The End of Food, by Paul Roberts
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture, by Wendell Berry
The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter, by Peter Singer and Jim Mason
What to Eat, by Marian Nestle
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Other Great Options
Abundance and Depletion, by Sharon Astyk
Against the Grain: How Agriculture has Hijacked Civilization, by Richard Manning
All You Can Eat: How Hungry is America? by Joel Berg
An Agricultural Testament, by Sir Albert Howard
Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the
Environment, by David Kirby
Becoming Native to this Place, by Wes Jackson
Bringing the Food Economy Home: Local Alternatives to Global Agribusiness, by H. Norberg-Hodge
CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories, by Daniel Imhoff
Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty, by Mark Winne
Comfort Me with Apples, by Ruth Reichl
Coming Home to Eat, by Gary Paul Nabhan
Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer Philosopher, by Frederick L. Kirschenmann
Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can do About It,
by Anna Lappe and Bill McKibben
Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on
Earth, by John Robbins
Diet for a Small Planet, by Frances Moore Lappe
Dirt, by David Montgomery
Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine, by Andrew Smith
Food Fight: The Inside Story of the Food Industry, America's Obesity Crisis, and What We Can Do About It,
by Kelly Brownell
Food Fight: The Citizen’s Guide to a Food and Farm Bill, by Dan Imhoff
Food Politics: How the Industry Influences Nutrition and Health, by Marion Nestle
Food Rebels, Guerilla Gardeners, and Smart-Cooking Mamas, by Mark Winne
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food, by Paul Greenberg
Free for All: Fixing School Food in America, by Janet Poppendieck
From Asparagus to Zucchini: A Guide to Cooking Farm-Fresh Seasonal Produce, by the Madison Area
Community Supported Agriculture Coalition
Fruitless Fall, by Rowan Jacobsen
Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen, by Anna Lappe and Bryant Terry
Hope’s Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet, by Frances Moore Lappe and Anna Lappe
Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment, by F. Magdoff, J.B.
Foster, and F.H. Buttel
Kosher Nation, by Sue Fishkoff
Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, and The Future of Food, by Daniel Charles
Meat: A Love Story, by Susan Bourette
My Year of Meats, by Ruth Ozeki
On Good Land: The Autobiography of an Urban Farm, by Michael Ableman
Organic, Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grew, by Samuel Fromartz
Real Food for a Change, by Wayne Roberts, Rod MacRae, and Lori Stahlbrand
Real Food for Mother and Baby: The Fertility Diet, Eating for Two, and Baby's First Foods, by Nina Planck
Real Food: What to Eat and Why, by Nina Planck
Recipe for America: Why Our Food System is Broken and What We Can do to Fix It, by Jill Richardson
Righteous Pork Chop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms, by Nicolette Hahn Niman
Slow Food Nation, by Carlo Petrini
Small Farms are Real Farms, by John Ikerd
Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, by Raj Patel
Sweet Charity: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement, by Janet Poppendieck
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The Botany of Desire, by Michael Pollan
The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite, by David Kessler
The Fattening of America: How the Economy Makes Us Fat, If It Matters, and What to Do About It,
by Eric Finkelstein
The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World, by J. Robbins
The Great American Detox, by Alex Jameison
The Oyster Question: Scientists, Waterman, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay since 1880, by Christine Keiner
The Violence of the Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology and Politics, by Vandana Shiva
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