Episode 9: Recommended Reads from the FoodScape
Looking for some holiday reading?
Seeing as it's the Borders Book Festival in the middle of this month, here are a handful of food-writing classics to whet your appetite. These are all fantastic reads into the politics, philosophy, science and culture of food.
Buon apetito!
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The FoodScape Recommended Reads:
'How to Cook a Wolf' - MFK Fisher, 1942. North Point Press.
'Rooted: How Regenerative Farming can Change the World' - Sarah Langford, 2022. Penguin.
'The Virtues of the Table: How to Eat and Think' - Julian Baggini, 2014. Granta.
'First Bite: How We Learn to Eat' - Bee Wilson, 2015. Fourth Estate.
'Sitopia: How Food Can Save the World' - Carolyn Steel, 2020. Vintage.
'The Diet Myth: The Real Science Behind What We Eat' - Tim Spector, 2015. Orion.
'The Hidden Half of Nature' - Montgomery and Bikle, 2016. Norton.
'Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation' - Michael Pollan, 2013. Allen Lane.
'The Art of Fermentatoin' - Sandor Katz, 2012. Chelsea Green.
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Presented by Charlotte Maberly
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Exploring the way food shapes our lives and our land in the Scottish Borders. From farms and fisheries, to restaurants and retail, Charlotte Maberly interviews people who make our foodscape and considers how our past and present will shape our food future.
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