Read works written by members of the Food for Climate League team.
Hungry: Avocado Toast, Instagram Influencers, and Our Search for Connection and Meaning
by Eve Turow-Paul
(June 2020) In Hungry, Eve Turow-Paul provides a guided tour through the stranger corners of today's global food and lifestyle culture. How are 21st-century innovations and pressures are redefining people’s needs and desires? How does “foodie” culture, along with other lifestyle trends, provide an answer to our rising rates of stress, loneliness, anxiety, and depression?
Weaving together evolutionary psychology and sociology with captivating investigative reporting from around the world, Turow-Paul reveals the modern hungers—physical, spiritual, and emotional—that are driving today’s top trends.
How to Be a Conscious Eater: Making Food Choices That Are Good for You, Others, and the Planet
by Sophie Egan
(March 2020) Is organic really worth it? Are eggs ok to eat? If so, which ones are best for you, and for the chicken—Cage-Free, Free-Range, Pasture-Raised? What about farmed salmon, soy milk, sugar, gluten, fermented foods, coconut oil, almonds? Thumbs-up, thumbs-down, or somewhere in between?
Using three criteria—Is it good for me? Is it good for others? Is it good for the planet?—Sophie Egan helps us navigate the bewildering world of food so that we can all become conscious eaters.
Devoured: How What We Eat Defines Who We Are
by Sophie Egan
(July 2017) In Devoured, Sophie Egan reveals the deeper meaning behind our food choices: from our prioritizing of convenience over health to the ways food at work affects our happiness; from the American obsession with “having it our way” at Starbucks, Chipotle, and other chains to the fascinating dynamic between highbrow food culture—artisan this and small-batch that—and the lowbrow, such as Taco Bell’s record-breaking sales of Doritos Locos Tacos.
Consider this the Freakonomics of food. Weaving together psychology, anthropology, food science, marketing, and behavioral economics, Devoured takes us from the workplace to the home kitchen, from the grocery aisles to fast-food counters.
A Taste of Generation Yum: How the Millennial Generation's Love for Organic Fare, Celebrity Chefs and Microbrews Will Make or Break the Future of Food
by Eve Turow-Paul
(July 2015) There are roughly 80 million Millennials in America. Half of them identify as “foodies.” They buy organic groceries, fawn over Chemex coffee, Instagram images of pork belly and spend their recession-dented incomes on high-end meals out. Young adults with degrees from prestigious universities apply their learnings to harvests instead of hedge funds. Never before has a young generation paid this much attention to food. Starting back in 2012, Millennial, Eve Turow set out on a journey to understand why. Through interviews with a variety of Millennials as well as food luminaries—including Anthony Bourdain, Michael Pollan, Mark Bittman, Marion Nestle and more—Turow investigates the underlying drive for the Millennial obsession with food, and later looks at the role of Millennials in the future of food policy in America.