Books

author Sara Calvosa Olson and the cover of her book about indigenous foods and foodways, Chimi Nu'am. (Photo courtesy of Sara Calvosa Olson)

This Indigenous Cook Wants to Help Readers Decolonize Their Diets

By Twilight Greenaway

November 28, 2023

Karuk writer and home cook Sara Calvosa Olson has assembled a collection of Native recipes to help readers reconnect to the natural world.

Relocalizing the Food System to Fight a ‘Farm-Free Future’

By Nhatt Nichols

November 15, 2023

Rebecca May Johnson Explores Food, Feminism, and Self-Expression in ‘Small Fires’

By Amy Halloran

October 11, 2023

Author Rebecca May Johnson and the cover of her new book, Small Fires.

‘At the Table’ Is a Guide for Chefs Who Want to Lead Outside the Kitchen

By Stephanie Toone

October 5, 2023

Katherine Miller, author of

‘For the Culture’ Is a Joyful Celebration of Black Women and Femmes in Food

By Nancy Matsumoto

September 28, 2023

What the Rapid Rise of Norway’s Farmed Salmon Industry Means For the Rest of the World

September 7, 2023

How Alaska Natives Lost the Right to Fish Sacred Salmon

August 14, 2023

An Alaska Native subsistence fisherman steers his boat loaded with salmon on the Yukon River.

How Focusing on Care Can Change Our Relationship to Food

July 3, 2023

Our Summer 2023 Food and Farming Book Guide

By The Civil Eats Editors

June 21, 2023

New Cookbook Welcomes Disabled People into the Kitchen

June 13, 2023

Tamar Adler Teaches Home Cooks to Turn Food Waste Into Dinner

By Hannah Wallace

June 6, 2023

Author Tamar Adler and the cover of her new book, The Everlasting Meal Cookbook, about reducing food waste while cooking delicious food. (Author photo credit: Aaron Stern)

How Lalo García Went From Farmworker to Celebrity Chef

By Caroline Tracey

May 2, 2023

‘It’s Impossible Not to Feel Like I’m Part of the Flock’

By Tove Danovich

March 30, 2023

In ‘Secret Harvests,’ Farmer Mas Masumoto Explores Questions of Legacy

By Caroline Hatano

March 23, 2023

Mas Masumoto and the cover of his new book, Secret Harvests

Does Pastoralism Have a Place in the Future of Food?

January 24, 2023

Ilse-Kohler-Rollefson, a camel, and the cover of the new book, hoofprints on the land

Kristin Ohlson Wants Us to Reimagine Collaboration on the Land

By Lee van der Voo

January 11, 2023

Kristin Ohlson and the cover of her book, sweet in tooth and claw

In ‘Raw Deal,’ A Reporter Reveals the Dirty Underbelly of the Meat Industry

By Lindsey Margaret Allen

December 9, 2022

reporter chloe sorvino and the cover of her new book, raw deal

Our 2022 Food and Farming Holiday Book Gift Guide

By The Civil Eats Editors

December 7, 2022

a collage of the latest food and farming books for our holiday gift guide

Soil Health Is Human Health

By Naomi Starkman

December 1, 2022

David Montgomery and Anne Biklé, authors of

After 60 Years, ‘Silent Spring’ Is Still Changing the World

October 19, 2022

Rachel Carson and the original cover of Silent Spring

How Fermented Foods Shaped the World

By Twilight Greenaway

October 4, 2022

julia skinner and the cover of our fermented lives

How the Politics of School Food Shape What Kids Eat

By Matthew Wheeland

September 26, 2022

Marcus Weaver-Hightower and the cover of his new book, Unpacking School Lunch

‘Slow Cooked’: How Food Policy Expert Marion Nestle Persisted

By Naomi Starkman

September 21, 2022

A collage of Marion Nestle present-day and the cover of her new memoir, slow cooked

Top Chef’s Gregory Gourdet on Sourcing, Sobriety, and Equity

By Hannah Wallace

September 15, 2022

Gregory Gourdet in the dining room of his new Haitan restaurant Kann, which opened in August. (Photo credit: Zack Lewis)

How an American Crisis Brought Together US Dairy Farmers and Mexican Farmworkers

By Lindsey Margaret Allen

July 20, 2022

Ruth Conniff and the cover of her book, Milked, about the dairy industry and dairy workers