An authoritative and eye-opening history that examines how Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our food system.Monsanto, a St. Louis chemical firm that became the world’s largest maker of genetically engineered seeds, merged with Germ...

The riveting story of the entrepreneurs and renegades fighting to bring lab-grown meat to the world.The trillion-dollar meat industry is one of our greatest environmental hazards; it pollutes more than all the world's fossil-fuel-powered cars. Global...

The modern successor to Sweetness and Power, James Walvin's Sugar is a rich and engaging work on a topic that continues to change our world.How did a simple commodity, once the prized monopoly of kings and princes, become an essential ingredient in t...

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Tom Foster's "The Shelf Life of John Mackey" is now available as an audio download, where the length and timeliness of a podcast meets the high-quality production of a full-length audio program.On June 16, 2017, Who...

The founder and CEO of Askinosie Chocolate, an award-winning craft chocolate factory, shows readers how he discovered the secret to purposeful work and business − and how we can too, no matter what work we do.  Askinosie Chocolate is ...

The science behind a good meal: all the sounds, sights, and tastes that make us like what we're eating—and want to eat more.Why do we consume 35 percent more food when eating with one other person, and 75 percent more when dining with three? Ho...

From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening exposé that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick. ...

Inside what life is really like for the new generation of professional cooks—a captivating tale of the make-or-break first year at a young chef’s new restaurant.   For many young people, being a chef is as compelling a dream as being...

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIMEThe back must slave to feed the belly. . . . In this urgent and unique book, chef Michael Gibney uses twenty-four hours to animate the intricate camaraderie and culinary choreography in an...

Robert Lustig’s 90-minute YouTube video “Sugar: The Bitter Truth”, has been viewed more than two million times. Now, in this much anticipated book, he documents the science and the politics that has led to the pandemic of chronic d...

One of the most influential economists of the decade-and the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Stagnation-boldly argues that just about everything you've heard about food is wrong. Food snobbery is killing entrepreneurship and innovation...

For 30 days, Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald’s as part of an investigation into the effects of fast food on American health. The resulting documentary earned him an Academy Award nomination and broke box-office records worldwide.But th...