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"A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world's troubles. There, the sky is clear again. Rare ingredients abound. Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste, touch, and her own body. In this atmosphere of hidden...
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Creston Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"John van Hengel started the world's first food bank in 1967 and went on to create a network of food banks through Feeding America. The concept of getting food that would otherwise be wasted to people who are hungry has spread throughout the world. Gottesfeld's warm text and Agatha's lively art shows that there's no shame in being hungry - the shame lies in how long it took for someone to figure out how to feed people! All it took was one person with...
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Vintage
Pub. Date
2003
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English
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"Reporting from Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Eritrea, Kaplan examines the factors behind the famine that ravaged the region in the 1980s, exploring the ethnic, religious, and class conflicts that are crucial for understanding the region today. He offers a new foreword and afterword that show how the nations have developed since the famine, and why this region will only grow more important to the United States. Wielding his trademark ability to blend...
4) Seagarden
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Plotting the stars volume 2
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Pixel+Ink
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"As Myra Hodger begins her second year at the elite Scientific Lunar Academy of Magic, she should be happy. Her days of faking Number Whisperer magic are over, and she has friends she can trust with the secret of her Botan abilities. But that doesn’t mean she’s through pretending to be someone she’s not. Mourning Bernie and the incredible Moongarden they cultivated together, she feels like she’s losing herself just when she found the thing...
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Abdo Kids
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Español
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"There are so many fun foods to eat in fall, like s'mores made over a campfire and pumpkin pie! Title is complete with cute, colorful photos and easy-to-read text with bolded glossary terms. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards"--
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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""Food Politics" is the struggle among groups in society to shape the actions of governments when taxing, regulating, or subsidizing actions within the food and farming sector. In rich countries, government policies have historically favored farmers by providing income subsidies, often at the expense of consumers and taxpayers, while in poor countries it is urban consumers that have usually been favored. More recently, food politics debates have centered...
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Abdo Kids Junior, una subdivisión de Abdo Kids
Pub. Date
[2024]
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Español
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Spring is a wonderful time of year. Readers will learn that there so many yummy foods to eat! Strawberries are ready for picking. Carrots are ready for cutting. Maple syrup is ready for harvesting. Complete with easy text and beautiful photos. Aligned to Common Core standards & correlated to state standards.
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"What we eat matters--to us, and to the planet. Cool food is a game-changing new food category and way of thinking that can help fix the climate. This ... book will show you how to make simple choices, starting today--in the supermarket, in your kitchen, and in the world--to reduce your environmental impact. Hundreds of cool foods exist, but until now have gone largely uncelebrated for their climate-positive powers. Some of these foods may already...
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Abdo Kids Junior, una subdivisión de Abdo Kids
Pub. Date
[2024]
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Español
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This title looks at the many delicious winter foods there are to eat, like beef stew, cinnamon rolls, and clementines. The book is complete with big, bright photographs, a More Winter Foods section, and a picture glossary. Aligned to Common Core standards & correlated to state standards.
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Island Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Barons is the story of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyone else. Take Mike McCloskey, Chairman of Fair Oaks Farms. In a few short decades, he went from managing a modest dairy herd to running the Disneyland of agriculture, where school children ride trams through mechanized warehouses filled with tens of thousands of cows that never see the light of day. What was the key to his success? Hard work and exceptional...
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