Going to the movies?
Food Inc
Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation),
Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto)
along with forward thinking social entrepreneurslike Stonyfield's Gary Hirshberg
and Polyface Farms' Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising—and often shocking truths
—about what we eat, how it's produced,
who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.
Two Angry Moms
A great film made by a couple of moms on a mission
The film explores what kids are fed through school lunch programs
and revolutionary as well as highly beneficial alternatives.
Lesson: simple, clean food helps your kids learn and makes them healthier
Website: http://www.angrymoms.org/
Omnivore's Dilemma
Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan is an investigative journalist who has been researching and
revealing the truth behind large agri-business. Pollan breaks down the basics
about where food comes from and how it gets to the consumer.
Lesson: Americans eat a lot of corn - corn is in almost every processed food
processed foods aren't good for us
Website: http://www.michaelpollan.com
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
A staple read in architecture and urban planning studies. Jane Jacobs
launched a revolution against bad urban renewal policies from the 1950's when she
fought against the proposed Lower Manhattan Expressway.
The book both criticizes the policies of the time and points
out what really makes cities and neighborhoods work.
In Defense of Food
Michael Pollan
(from his site) Food. There's plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it.
So why should anyone need to defend it?
Because most of what we're consuming today is not food, and how we're consuming it --
in the car, in front of the TV, and increasingly alone-- is not really eating.
Instead of food, we're consuming "edible foodlike substances" --
no longer the products of nature but of food science.
Website: http://www.michaelpollan.com
Fast Food Nation
Eric Shlosser
Edible Schoolyard:A Universal Idea
Alice Waters
One of America's most influential chefs Alice Waters created a revolution in 1971 when she introduced local organic fare at her Berkeley California restaurant Chez Panisse. Twenty-five years later she and a small group of teachers and volunteers turned over long-abandoned soil at an urban middle school in Berkeley and planted the Edible Schoolyard.
The schoolyard has since grown into a universal idea of Edible Education that integrates academics with growing cooking and sharing wholesome delicious food. With inspiring images of the garden and kitchen and their young caretakers Edible Schoolyard is at once a visionary model for sustainable farming and childhood nutrition and a call to action for schools across the country.
Slow Food Nation's Come to the Table: The Slow Food Way of Living
by Alice Waters
The link below is to a summary of the CBS News profile of Alice Waters
which was shown on 60 Minutes
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/13/60minutes/main4863738.shtml
