Books: My Journey to Real Food

These books have changed my life. They've given force and direction to my then-vague, now robust whole foods gut-instinct.

• Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World - Greg Critser
• Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life - Barbara Kingsolver
• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals - Michael Pollan
• Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats - Sally Fallon
• Real Food: What to Eat and Why - Nina Planck
• Garden of Eating: A Produce-dominated Diet & Cookbook - Rachel Albert-Matesz
• Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods - Sandor Ellix Katz
• Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We Need to Get It Back - Ann Vileisis
• The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America's Underground Food Movements - Sandor Ellix Katz