Suggested Reference Materials in the Information Center:

• The Atlas of food: who eats what, where, and why.
• Cambridge world history of food. 2 vols. Volume 2 includes the history of "food and drink around the world." (also in Bender Room, and Biology Library)
• Cultural encyclopedia of vegetarianism.
• Encyclopedia of animal rights and animal welfare. 2 vols.
• Encyclopedia of food and culture. 3 vols.
• Encyclopedia of junk food and fast food.
• The Oxford encyclopedia of food and drink in America. 2 vols., also online

Suggested authors: Frances Moore Lappé, Marion Nestle, Michael Pollan, John Robbins, Peter Singer

Suggested subject words:

• Cookery (cooking)
• Environmental ethics
• Factory farming
• Food habits
• Food + marketing/political aspects/moral and ethical aspects/preferences/social aspects/supply
• Genetically modified foods
• Sustainable agriculture

Suggested Call number ranges in Green (see also Biology and Law Libraries):

• GT2850 Eating and drinking customs
• Bite me: Food in popular culture.
• Food and culture: a reader.
• The omnivore's dilemma: a natural history of four meals.
• HD9000: Land use +, includes social/cultural aspects of food
• Blatt, Harvey. America's food: what you don't know about what you eat.
• Stuffed and starved: markets, power and the hidden battle for the world food system.
• HV: Social Service; HV4700 – Animal Rights
• Global obligations for the right to food.
• Sexual politics of meat: a feminist-vegetarian critical theory.
• TX: Home Economics (including food and cooking)
• Foodfight: the citizen's guide to a food and farm bill
• The revolution will not be microwaved: inside America's underground food movements.
• The World of soy.
• Series:
• California studies in food and culture
• Food series

Suggested Journals/ E-journals:

• Amber Waves - the economics of food, farming, natural resources, and rural America (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
• CQ Researcher (Congressional Quarterly) - no. 17 on Slow food movement (2007), others on obesity, world hunger, factory farms, etc.
• E: the environmental magazine (latest yr in Law)
• Food, culture, and society (also in Current Periodicals)
• Gastronomica (from the University of California)
• Vegetarian Times (Google Books has 1981-2004)

Suggested Databases :

• Academic Search Premier - "choose databases" to add others: Agricola (agriculture), Business Source Complete, Environment Index, GreenFile
• ISI Web of Knowledge - includes science resources, such as CABI: CAB Abstracts– agriculture and biology
• Environmental Studies (list of databases)

Suggested Documentary films:

• Earthlings - man’s dependence on and disrespect of animals, narrated by Joaquin Phoenix. 2007.
• Future of food. 2004. On GMOs.
• If this is kosher.... (Jonathan Safran Foer on slaughterhouses)
• Meet your meat. (PETA).
• Real dirt on Farmer John. 2007. 2 copies.
• Sustainable table: whats on your plate?

Special Stanford Resources:

• The Ethics of Food and the Environment series - this spring features a talk on May 7th by Katrina Heron, Director, Chez Panisse Foundation and Chair, Slow Food Nation, 2008.
• Program on Food Security and the Environment
• The Woods Institute for the Environment has a new grant from the Gates Foundation to study "biofuels and food security in the developing world." It also hosts workshops on the U.S. Farm Bill.

Suggested Websites:

• Earthsave - great links, organization of John Robbins, based in Santa Cruz
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - includes information on world food situation, global crop diversity, GMOs, etc.
• Food First: Institute for Food and Development Policy (Oakland)
• Foodtimeline.org - great source on the history of food, see especially Culinary Research
• International Food Policy Research Institute
• PETA – Dairy questions, practices? MilkSucks.com
• PCRM – Physicians’ Committee for Responsible Medicine, see online journal: Good Medicine, research on diet and health/illness (cancer, diabetes, etc.)
• Slow Food USA
• Stuffed and Starved - website based on book by Patel listed above, many links. See "A week in food" - comparing diets of people all around the world
• Vegetarian Cooking - websites for recipes, etc.
• Vegetarian Resource Group - respected educational organization, links to Vegetarian Journal online

Suggested blogs:

• 50 of the World's Best Food Blogs - annotated list from February 2009 of blogs on food, cooking, restaurants, and cookbooks. From the website for the British newspaper The Times.