Albert, Michael—Parecon: Life After Capitalism
"What do you want?" is a constant query put to economic and globalization activists decrying current poverty, alienation and degradation. In this highly praised new work, destined to attract worldwide attention and support, Michael Albert provides an answer: Participatory Economics, "Parecon" for short—a new economy, an alternative to capitalism, built on familiar values including solidarity, equity, diversity and people democratically controlling their own lives, but utilizing original institutions fully described and defended in the book.

Alexander, Christopher—A Pattern of Language
This classic handbook presents a language which ordinary people can use to express themselves in their own communities or homes, and to better communicate with each other.

Alvord, Katie—Divorce Your Car!: Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile
Car-dependency is a serious problem, but Divorce Your Car! is leavened with love-affair and self-help analogies in the text as well as cartoon illustrations. From commuters crazed by congestion and soccer moms sick of chauffeuring, to environmentalists looking for auto alternatives Divorce Your Car! provides all the reasons not to drive and the many alternative ways we can all get around without our cars.

Brown, Lester—Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
In this updated edition of the landmark book, Brown outlines a survival strategy for the early 21st-century civilization. He warns that the only effective response to the world-wide environmental disruption is a World War II-type mobilization like that in the U.S. after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Bruno, Kenny & Joshua Karliner—earthsummit.biz: The Corporate Takeover of Sustainable Development
A muckraking expose of corporate greenwashing and of the disturbing trend toward U.N.-corporate "partnerships" that give corporations good PR without requiring them to improve their behavior.

Day, Christopher—Places of the Soul: Architecture and Environmental Design as a Healing Art
This new edition reminds readers that true sustainable design does not simply mean energy efficient building. Sustainable buildings must provide for the soul.

Commoner, Barry—The Closing Circle (Bantam Books)
Great ecology from the 1950s.

Edey, Anna—Solviva
The story of an extremely profitable, working sustainable farm.

Faillace, Linda—Mad Sheep
Mad Sheep is the account of one familys struggle against a bullying and corrupt government agency that long ago abandoned the family farmer to serve the needs of corporate agriculture and the industrialization of our food supply.

Friend, Catherine—The Compassionate Carnivore
Tackles the carnivore's dilemma, exploring the contradictions and questions surrounding the bewildering choices facing today's more conscientious meat eaters.

Fromartz, Samual—Organic, INC.
Organic, Inc. tells how an $11 billion industry arose out of an alternative food movement, bringing backwoods idealists into the age of the organic tortilla chip. A juggernaut in the otherwise sluggish food industry, organic food is now a consumer phenomenon growing at 20 percent a year. But what is organic food? Is it really better for you? Where did it come from and why so many of us buying it?

Fukuoka, Masanoba—One Straw Revolution
Inspiring look at how not to mess around with Mother Nature.

Goodall, Jane—Harvest for Hope
Renowned scientist and bestselling author Goodall delivers an eye-opening and empowering book that explores the social and personal significance of the food people produce and consume.

Grossman, Elizabeth—High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health
An environmental journalist reveals that digital may be sleek, but it's anything but clean. Deep within every electronic device lie toxic materials that make up the bits and bytes, a complex thicket of lead, mercury, cadmium, plastics, and a host of other often harmful ingredients.

Halweil, Brian—Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket
Author Brian Halweil points to a surging local food movement that is rediscovering homegrown pleasures and changing the way we eat.

Hawken, Paul—The Ecology of Commerce
A visionary new program which businesses can follow to help restore the planet.

Hawken, Paul, Amory & Hunter Lovins—Natural Capitalism
This challenging analysis examines the environmental and cultural costs of industrialization and forecasts a transition to a new economy that succeeds by working with natural resources, instead of depleting them.

Hightower, Jim—Swim Against the Current
America's funniest activist gives the lowdown on how to put up--not shut up--in the fight for the country's future. Hightower introduces readers to people from across the country who are taking charge, living their values, doing good, and doing well.

Hobhouse, Henry—Seeds of Change: Six Plants that Transformed Mankind (Shoemaker & Hoard)
A superior, popular account of how five plants--quinine, sugar, tea, cotton and the potato--have determined the course of history.

Kennedy, Joseph, Michael Smith, et. al.—The Art of Natural Building
The ultimate ecological building resource includes examples of diverse natural dwellings, from a Hybrid Hobbit House to a thatched studio and a cob office. This volume is an encyclopedia of natural building for non-professionals as well as architects and designers.

Korten, David C.—The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
Korten draws on evidence from sources as varied as evolutionary theory, developmental psychology, and religious teachings to make the case that Earth Community--a life-centered, egalitarian, sustainable way of ordering human society based on democratic principles of partnership -- is indeed possible. He details a practical strategy for advancing a turning toward a future of as-yet-unrealized human potential.

McDonough, William and Michael Braungart—Cradle to Cradle: The Next Industrial Revolution
A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism.

McKibben, Bill—Deep Economy
Contending that more is not better for consumers, bestselling author McKibben offers a realistic, if challenging, scenario for a hopeful future. For those who wonder if there isn't more to life than buying, he provides insight on individual responsibility as well as global awareness.

McKibben, Bill—The End of Nature
Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on the environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth.

McKibben, Bill—Fight Global Warming Now
Drawing on the experience of Step It Up, a national day of rallies held on April 14, McKibben and the Step It Up team provide the facts about what must change to save the climate, and show readers how to build the fight in their community, church, or college.

McKibben, Bill—Hope, Human & Wild
Bill McKibben goes searching for signs of hope in three corners of the world: the astonishingly livable city of Curitiba, in Brazil; the Indian state of Kerala, where the citizens enjoy a life expectancy and literacy rate far above those in the rest of India; and the ecologically-recovering Adirondacks, where he lives.

McWilliams, James E.—A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America
A colorful and spirited tour of culinary attitudes, tastes, and techniques throughout colonial America.

Monbiot, George—Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning
The question is no longer whether climate change is actually happening. The question is what to do about it. Monbiot offers an ambitious and far-reaching program to cut our carbon dioxide emissions to the point where the environmental scales start tipping away from catastrophe.

Mourer, Diana—Go Lite on White and Be Discreet with Sweets: A Healthy Eating and Drinking Guide for Teens and Twenties
This is not another "diet" book. It is a healthy eating and drinking guide. Carbs are not the enemy. Neither are fats or proteins. Good nutrition is more than counting calories, carbs, fats and proteins. Good nutrition is getting the nutrients your body needs for good health, abundant energy and healthy weight control. This book defines food for you.

Nabhan, Gary Paul—Coming Home to Eat
To rediscover what it might mean to "think globally, eat locally, " Nabhan spent a year trying to eat only foods grown, fished, or caught within 200 miles of his home--with surprising results.

Nabhan, Gary Paul—The Forgotten Pollinators
A natural and cultural history about how pollination works and how easily it can be disrupted.

Nabhan, Gary Paul—Why Some Like it Hot: Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity
Offers a view of genes, diets, ethnicity, and place that will forever change the way readers understand human health and cultural diversity.

Nabhan, Gary Paul & Robert Coles—The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places
In this unique collaboration, two naturalists ask what may happen now that so many more children are denied exposure to wildness than at any other time in human history.

Pearce, Fred—When the Rivers Run Dry: Water - The Defining Crisis of the 21st Century
In this groundbreaking book, veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce travels to more than thirty countries to examine the current state of crucial water sources. Deftly weaving together the complicated scientific, economic, and historic dimensions of the world water crisis, he provides our most complete portrait yet of this growing danger and its ramifications for us all.

Pearce, Fred—With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change
As Pearce began work on this book, normally cautious scientists beat a path to his door to tell him about their fears and their latest findings. Now he presents this up-to-date and readable book about the growing evidence for global warming and the large climatic effects it may unleash.

Pollan, Michael—A Gardener's Education
In the mid-1980s, Michael Pollan began gardening on the grounds of the old dairy farm he bought in Connecticut, a process that led to a series of musings on the troubled boundary between nature and contemporary life.

Pollan, Michael—In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
A bracing and eloquent manifesto that shows readers how they might start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich their lives and enlarge their sense of what it means to be healthy.

Pollan, Michael—The Botany of Desire
Explores the histories of apples, tulips, potatoes, and marijuana, showing in the process how humanity and plants intersect and affect each other.

Pollan, Michael—The Omnivore's Dilemma
Pollan writes about the ecology of the food humans eat and why--what it is, in fact, that we are eating. Discussing industrial farming, organic food, and what it is like to hunt and gather food, this is a surprisingly honest and self-aware account of the evolution of the modern diet.

Rogers, Heather—Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage
Part expose, part social commentary, this work traces the connections between modern industrial production, consumer culture, and America's disposable lifestyle.

Schlosser, Eric—Fast Food Nation
To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Schlosser charts the fast food industry's enormous impact on our health, landscape, economy, politics and culture as he transforms the way America thinks about what it eats.

Shuman, Michael H.—The Small-Mart Revolution
In The Small-Mart Revolution, Shuman makes a compelling case for his alternative business model, one in which communities reap the benefits of "going local" in four key spending categories: goods, services, energy, and finance. The Small-Mart Revolution presents a visionary yet practical roadmap for everyone concerned with mitigating the worst of globalization.

Small Wright, MacHaelle—Behaving as if the God in All Life Mattered
Small Wright's own intense communication with nature has enabled her to have a greater understanding of the planet, and how human beings and nature can co-exist together peacefully, and healthfully. Chapters include lessons about energy, nature, the animal and mineral kingdoms, as well as exercises to put this unique viewpoint into practice.

Smith, Jeffrey M.—Genetic Roulette
This book, prepared with input by more than 30 scientists, is for anyone wanting to understand genetic modification technology, to learn how to protect themselves, or to share their concerns with others.

Smith, Jeffrey M.—Seeds of Deception
In Seeds of Deception, Jeffrey Smith, a former executive with the leading independent laboratory testing for GM presence in foods, documents these serious health dangers and explains how corporate influence and government collusion have been used to cover them up.

Steinfeld, Carol—Liquid Gold
Nitrogen pollution of lakes, rivers, and oceans by human urine is a growing problem. Liquid Gold shows how urine can safely be used to grow food, fuel, fiber, and beautiful landscapes while protecting the environment and providing free and safe fertilizer.

Thompson, W.I. & The Findhorn Community—The Findhorn Garden (Harper & Row)
An amazing journey into the beliefs of the Findhorn Community and the world of plant spirits.

Tompkins, Peter—The Secret Life of Nature (Harper Paperbacks)
An astonishing account of how spiritualists and scientists alike are revealing that the physical world teems with nature spirits.

Vileisis, Ann—Kitchen Literacy
Though the hidden costs of modern meals can be high, Vileisis shows that greater understanding can lead consumers to healthier and more sustainable choices. Revealing how knowledge of our food has been lost and how it might now be regained, "Kitchen Literacy "promises to make us think differently about what we eat.

Visser, Margaret—Much Depends on Dinner
Food historian Margaret Visser takes a meal of corn on the cob with butter and salt, roast chicken with rice, salad, and ice cream, and wittily deconstructs it, providing a wealth of information about the history, anthropology, and philosophy of one of life's great pleasures.

Bang, Jan Martin—Ecovillages: A Practical Guide to Sustainable Communities
Ecovillages explores the new departures in personal, social, and ecological living represented by this phenomenon. This book explores the background and history to the ecovillages movement and provides a comprehensive manual for planning, establishing, and maintaining a sustainable community using a permaculture approach

Bartholomew, John—Square Foot Gardening
The basic bible for intensive gardening. How to make a memorable garden in a small space, and do it with a minimum of the backbreaking labor usually associated with a really superior garden.

LOCAL Beck, C. Malcolm & John Howard Garrett—The Texas Bug Book: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
Honeybees in the flowers, fire ants in the yard, roaches in the kitchen--the good, the bad, and the ugly bugs are all over Texas! And they're here in the Texas Bug Book, your complete guide for identifying and organically controlling all of the most common Texas insects.

LOCAL Beck, C. Malcolm & John Howard Garrett—Texas Organic Vegetable Gardening (Gulf Publishing Company)
This book shows you how to have a healthy soil and recommends environmentally safe products and even some homemade remedies to control pests and disease in your garden. You'll get nuts and bolts information on companion planting and the use of beneficial insects.

LOCAL Bender, Kelly—Texas Wildscapes, Gardening for Wildlife
Creating backyard habitat to attract wildlife is what this book is all about. We yearn to get back to nature and to experience the sights and sounds of species other than our own. Finally, your backyard can also become a certified Official Texas Wildscape Site with its own weatherproof sign and a personalized certificate for you, sent by Texas Parks and Wildlife. The book contains instructions for applying.

Christian, Diana Leafe—Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities
The only resource available that provides step-by-step practical information distilled from numerous firsthand sources on how to establish an intentional community. It deals in depth with structural, interpersonal and leadership issues, decision-making methods, vision statements, and the development of a legal structure, as well as profiling well-established model communities. This exhaustive guide includes excellent sample documents among its wealth of resources.

Creasy, Rosalind—The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping (Sierra Club Books)
This comprehensive, feature-packed book shows how you can create more beauty around your home, grow delicious healthful produce, and save money and natural resources all at the same time--by landscaping with edible plants.

Daniels, Stevie—The Wild Lawn Handbook: Alternatives to the Traditional Front Lawn (MacMillan Publishing)
The definitive guide to transforming the traditional grass lawn into a beautiful alternative lawn using native grasses, ferns, mosses, wildflowers, low-growing shrubs, and perennials is now available in paperback.

Dannenmaier, Molly—A Child's Garden: Enchanting Outdoor Spaces (Simon & Schuster)
A gardening book filled with a full range of projects and creative approaches to gardening for children of all ages.

Elvitch, Craig R.—Pathways to Abundant Gardens (Permanent Agriculture Resources)
Although this book presents some how-to information, its primary purpose is to inspire novice and experienced gardeners. Most people have rarely had the opportunity to see a range of vibrant, diverse organic gardens, and these photos will give them a taste of what is certainly hiding in their own neighborhoods.

LOCAL Garrett, John Howard—The Dirt Doctor
With this information, professional and home gardeners alike can learn how to eliminate their chemical dependency and grow plants "the natural way." Let The Dirt Doctor's Guide to Organic Gardening be your one-stop source for cost-effective, earth-friendly, complete, and easy-to-understand gardening information.

LOCAL Garrett, John Howard—The Organic Manual
Around the world everyone is talking environmental issues and ‘going green’. Natural organic gardening and landscaping are important parts of this movement. Some organic proponents only say to stop using the chemicals. Garrett recommends stopping the use of toxic chemical pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, but goes on, in great detail, about the practical alternatives. This is one of the few gardening books effective for use coast to coast and border to border. The organic method has no geographic boundaries.

LOCAL Garrett, John Howard—Plants for Texas
In this one book, you'll find a virtual encyclopedia of over 500 Texas plants--trees, shrubs, flowers, vines, grasses, vegetables, fruits, weeds, and cover crops--along with complete, easily understood instructions for planting and maintaining them.

Gershuny, Grace—The Rodale Book of Composting: Easy Methods for Every Gardner
The broad spectrum of information given will be useful from backyard urban gardening on up to industrial, municipal, and farm recycling.

Groh, Trauger M. & Steve McFadden—Farms for Tomorrow, Revisited (Bio-Dynamic Farming & Gardening Association)
This book provides a thoughtful and compelling case for a new form of sustainable agriculture. Farming is not just a business, but a precondition for life on earth.

Guerra, Michael—The Edible Container Garden: Growing Fresh Food in Small Spaces (Fireside)
From decorative pots and old-fashioned boxes placed on a patio to mini-farms created on a balcony or rooftop, the joys of gardening and the pleasures of fresh produce come to life in this fully illustrated guide.

Haeg, Fritz—Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn
Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn documents the first four gardens with firsthand accounts written by the owners, garden plans, and photographs illustrating the creation of the gardens, from ripping up the grass to harvesting a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, and herbs.

Hagy, Fred—Landscaping with Fruits and Vegetables (Overlook Hardcover)
Most homeowners design their gardens as little decorative plots set amid expanses of green lawn. Europeans, on the other hand, have long understood the value of making the most of what the land has to offer, emphasizing a gardens potential for year-round productivity and beauty. This highly informative book offers a new approach -- providing lots of great ideas for a totally edible garden.

Hemenway, Toby—Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
Permaculture is a verbal marriage of permanent and agriculture. Key features of this guide include: use of compatible perennials; non-invasive planting techniques; emphasis on biodiversity; specifically adaptable to local climate, landscape, and soil conditions; highly productive output of edibles.

Holmgren, David—Permaculture: Principles and pathways beyond sustainability
David Holmgren brings into sharper focus the powerful and still evolving Permaculture concept he pioneered with Bill Mollison in the 1970s. It draws together and integrates 25 years of thinking and teaching to reveal a whole new way of understanding and action behind a simple set of design principles. The 12 design principles are each represented by a positive action statement, an icon and a traditional proverb or two that captures the essence of each principle.

Hutchins, Alma—A Handbook of Native American Herbs
This uniquely authoritative portable guide--based on the famous bible of American herbalists, Indian Herbalogy of North America--identifies and describes the uses for 125 medicinal herbs, and gives instructions for preparing herbal remedies.

Imhoff, Daniel—Farming with the Wild
Offers vivid profiles of more than thirty farms, ranches, and organizations in the United States, featuring a new agrarian movement that is slowly sweeping across the nation--a movement that aims to provide healthier food to Americans while restoring healthy ecosystems.

Jacke, Dave & Eric Toensmeir—Edible Forest Gardens
A groundbreaking two-volume work that spells out and explores the key concepts of forest ecology and applies them to the needs of natural gardeners in temperate climates.

Jeavons, John—How to Grow More Vegetables Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine
A detailed book on bio-intensive gardening and double digging. Shows how to produce a beautiful organic garden with minimal watering and care, whether it's just a few tomatoes in a tiny backyard or enough food to feed a family of four on less than half an acre.

Jeavons, John & Carol Cox—The Sustainable Vegetable Garden: A Backyard Guide to Healthy Soil and Higher Yields
This introduction to biointensive gardening shows that it is not only possible but easy to grow astonishing crops of healthful organic vegetable and fruits, while conserving resources and helping

Johnson, Wendy—Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate: At Work in the Wild and Cultivated World
Wendy Johnson shares a wealth of practical knowledge and fascinating garden lore from her life’s work as a hands-on, on-her-knees gardener.

Kourik, Robert—Designing and Maintaining your Edible Landscape Naturally (New Age Foods)
The book explores the subterranean part of every gardeners world, revealing how roots really grow while dispelling myths such as where most gardeners apply water, mulch, and fertilizer or compost.

Kroeger, Hanna—Instant Herbal Locator (New Age Foods)
This text shows readers what herbs “mine” what minerals.

Lee, Andy & Pat Foreman—Chicken Tractor: The Permaculture Guide to Happy Hens and Healthy Soil
How to build and use a "chicken tractor," a simple, inexpensive, bottomless chicken cage/coop that can be moved around the farm as a portable source of fertilizer.

Lovell, Hugh—A Biodynamic Farm
A practical, how-to guide to making all of the biodynamic preparations, this book will provide what you need to put these proven techniques to work in your fields.

Marrow, Rosemary—Earth User's Guide to Permaculture
Included in the text is an overview of the bromeliad family, where to procure plants, helpful tips on how to grow the most popular species, ten new bromeliads are described, as well as details about biology, propagation, hybridisation and new chemical treatments for bromeliads. The language is clear and concise, and an extensive glossary is included.

Mollison, Bill—Permaculture Design Manual
Permaculture Design Manual is a good reference for a designer from the preimer designer and writer on Permaculture.

LOCAL Nokes, Jill—How to Grow Native Plants of TX and the SW
How to Grow Native Plants of Texas and the Southwest has set the standard for both home and professional gardeners. Written when the native plant movement was just getting started, it helped convert a generation of gardeners to the practical and aesthetic values of using drought-tolerant plants in southwestern landscapes. This updated version continues in the originals legacy.

Primeau, Liz—Front Yard Gardens: Growing More Than Grass
The front yard doesn't have to be a boring expanse of lawn and a row of shrubs. Here are many inventive ideas for doing much more with an often-neglected area of the yard.

Riotte, Louise—Carrots Love Tomatoes
This book tells you how to take advantage of the natural partnerships of plants to increase your harvest.

Rubin, Carol—How to Get Your Lawn Off Grass: A North American Guide to Turning Off the Water Tap and Going Native (Harbour Publishing)
This is a vital publication for all North Americans who are concerned about water scarcity and water quality.

Savory, Allan, Joan Butterfield & Jody Butterfield—Holistic Management
This book is an essential handbook for anyone involved with land management and stewardship and a valuable guide for all those seeking to make better decisions within their organizations or in any aspect of their personal lives.

Shapiro, Howard-Yano & John Harrisson—Gardening for the Future of the Earth (Bantam)
An array of organic gardeners advocate responsible use of the land in this collection of essays that includes Bill Mollison on permaculture and garden design, John Jeavons on soil, and Carol Deppe on seed-saving.

Tompkins, Peter, Christopher Bird & William Thomas—The Secrets of Soil (Earthplus Press)
This book offers many different ways for each of us as individuals to help heal the soil - the very foundation of life under our own two feet - and to help heal OURSELVES in the process.

LOCAL Travis County Master Gardeners—Gardening Guide for Austin and Vicinity
Local information on vegetable garden planting, recommended vegetable varieties, local nurseries/garden centers, resources, farmers’ markets and farm stands, suggested books to read, and plant/seed resources.

Wasowski, Sally & Andy—Native Texas Plants: Landscaping Region by Region: Landscaping Region by Region (Gulf Publishing)
An indispensable guide with 21 landscaping design plans for every type of terrain found in Texas.

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Bonarrigo, Merrill & Paul—Vineyard Cuisine (Blue Sky Press)
Having spent 30 years developing wines of distinction in Texas, Merrill and Paul Bonarrigo have now created a true vineyard cuisine using wine in every dish or marinade and offering suggestions of pairings.

Bourdain, Anthony—Les Halles Cookbook
In this long-awaited cookbook, the bestselling author of "Kitchen Confidential" reveals the hearty, delicious recipes of Les Halles and the provocative tricks of the trade that have made him a celebrated name across the globe.

Brennan, Georgeanne—Potager: Fresh Garden Cooking in the French Style
The French country tradition of cooking from a "potager," or kitchen garden, has for centuries produced meals that are seasonally fresh, simple, and sparkling with the essential flavors of their carefully grown and prepared ingredients. Brennan captures the full vitality of this age-old cuisine, featuring a collection of sixty imaginative recipes made from the very freshest fruits, vegetables, and herbs of nature's bounty.

Child, Julia—In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs (Random House)
When Julia Child invites 26 great chefs into her kitchen, the result is 150 superb recipes. Here they are, translated for the home cook and enhanced by Julia Child's own familiar voice supplying useful hints and explanations.

Child, Julia—Mastering The Art of French Cooking (Knopf Publishing Group)
Julia Child's two-volume masterwork--one of the most popular and influential cookbooks ever published--introduced French cooking to millions of home cooks during the 1960s and '70s.

Child, Julia—The Way to Cook (Random House)
The Way to Cook is Child's magnus opus—the biggest and most comprehensive collection of Child recipes and comments, with the same warm, generous, informal approach that has made her the most celebrated cook in America.

Colle, Marie Pierre—Frida's Fiestas
In the tradition of the best-selling Monet's Table, Frida's Fiestas is a personal account in words and pictures of many important and happy events in the life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, and a scrapbook, assembled by her stepdaughter, of recipes for more than 100 dishes that Frida served to family and friends with her characteristic enthusiasm for all the pleasures of life.

Cool, Jesse Ziff—Simply Organic: A Cookbook for Sustainable, Seasonal, and Local Ingredients
Author and restaurateur Jesse Ziff Cool has compiled over 30 years of knowledge about organic, local, and sustainable food into one magnificent cookbook, including indispensable elements of her earlier cookbook, Your Organic Kitchen, which is now out of print. With 150 enticing recipes, Simply Organic encourages home cooks to embrace organics as a lifestyle rather than a fad.

LOCAL Disbrowe, Paula—Cowgirl Cuisine
In "Cowgirl Cuisine," Paula tells her story through food. She weaves together romance, adventure, and more than a few laughs as she celebrates the beauty of flavorful food, fresh air, and her own wholesome recipes, all while taking home cooks on a journey well off the beaten path.

Douglas, Tom—Tom's Big Dinners
One of the best-known chefs in America shares his innovative "big time" recipes and unique menus for easy home entertaining.

Fearnley-Whittingstall, Hugh—The River Cottage Meat Book
The definitive guide to understanding, choosing, and cooking meat. This ranks among the most singular food books of the past decade—part manifesto on the importance of sustainably raised meat, part kitchen primer, part collection of essential meat preparations, and full color throughout.

Goin, Suzanne—Sunday Suppers at Lucques
With 132 seasonal recipes, California chef Goin brings her delectable Sunday suppers into readers' own kitchens. 75 full-color photos.

Guerra, Melissa—The Texas Provincial Kitchen Cookbook
Melissa Guerra's unique cookbook brings together the flavors of South Texas and Northern Mexico to demonstrate the way people in this region eat and live. The blending of cultures is reflected in the food prepared and enjoyed. The recipes range from coastal seafood to inland brush country cuisine developed on the area's historic ranches.

Haas, Ellen—Fast & Fit
A quick, easy-to-use collection of 150 recipes from prominent chefs, organized into healthy, hassle-free meals that can be made in just 30 minutes, most using five or fewer ingredients.

Hazan, Marcella—Marcella Says...
This useful book is a fusion of Hazan’s passion for cooking and teaching. Hazan inserts her philosophy, which stresses simplicity, respect for the ingredients, and solid adherence to the earthy traditions of Italian home cooking. She claims that this will be her last cookbook.

LOCAL Hutson, Lucinda—The Herb Garden Cookbook
Beautifully illustrated with full-color photographs, The Herb Garden Cookbook is filled with easy-to-follow instructions on planting, caring for, harvesting, and using herbs. The book features an outstanding collection of delicious, unique recipes, including preparations for herb butters and vinegars, and an extensive list of sources for buying seeds, plants, and gourmet foods.

LOCAL Hutson, Lucinda—Tequila!: Cooking with the Spirit of Mexico
Its flavor is as melodic to the mouth as a mariachi tune is to the ear, and Lucinda Hutson captures that spirit with more than 150 festive food and drink recipes, peppered throughout with fabulous folk art, historical facts about tequila production, and colorful personal anecdotes.

Isham, Anne—Eat (More) Chocolate Lose Weight (Anyway)
You can have your chocolate and eat it, responsibly, without gaining weight. This book is a mix of chocolate history, philosophy and recipes, including wonderful bourbon balls.

LOCAL Junior League of Austin—Austin Entertains
With a fresh approach to in-home entertaining, Austin Entertains preserves the wonders of Austin and delivers a delightful assortment of crowd-pleasing recipes. Foods ideal for a night with good friends, good Texas wines, and perfect meals to toast the performing arts.

LOCAL Junior League of Austin—Necessities and Temptations
Celebrating its 20th birthday, Necessities and Temptations is really two books in one! It's a cookbook and handy kitchen reference guide. With over 600 triple-tested recipes and helpful illustrations, charts and kitchen and entertaining reference guide.

Keller, Thomas—The French Laundry Cookbook (Artisan)
The chef/proprietor of the French Laundry—"the most exciting place to eat in the United States" ("The New York Times")—presents 150 recipes that capture the impact of this extraordinary food. 200 color photos.

Lappé, Anna & Bryant Terry—Grub: Ideas for an urban organic kitchen
Combining a straight-to-the-point expos about organic foods (organic doesn't mean fresh, natural, or independently produced) and the how-to's of creating an affordable, easy-to-use organic kitchen, "Grub" brings organics home to urban dwellers.

Medearis, Angela Shelf—The Ethnic Vegetarian
150 deliciously diverse, culturally based recipes and the history and lore behind them. The Ethnic Vegetarian was created to preserve and showcase the African origins and culture of vegetarian cusuine.

Morgan, Diane—Grill Every Day
In her newest cookbook, Morgan presents a compelling argument that grills should be used every night, and delivers 125 recipes for meat and veggies, sides, and even desserts.

LOCAL Rather, Rebecca—The Pastry Queen
More than 150 delicious recipes from the best little from-scratch bakery in Texas: Rather Sweet, in Fredericksburg, a favorite Hill Country destination for Austin foodies.

LOCAL Rather, Rebecca—The Pastry Queen Christmas
Rebecca Rather shares nearly 100 traditional recipes reflecting her made-with-love-from-scratch philosophy and the tastes of small-town Texas.

Reinhart, Peter—Whole Grain Breads
Master bread baker and innovator Peter Reinhart has improved and simplified his groundbreaking delayed fermentation method to successfully meet the whole grain challenge with less hands-on time in the kitchen. The definitive guide to baking incredible and healthful artisan-quality bread includes recipes for both partial and 100-percent whole grain hearth, sandwich, and specialty breads.

Ripert, Eric & Ruhlman, Michael—A Return to Cooking (Artisan)
In this huge and sumptuous book, the chef at Le Bernardin in New York City visits four artists and writers in four different parts of the world—Sag Harbor, Puerto Rico, Napa Valley, and a town in Vermont. There he is able to stop being a famous chef and just be a cook, in fresh and intimate settings where he can recharge his culinary batteries. The artist Valentino accompanies him, making paintings, and the writer Michael Ruhlman (author of The Soul of a Chef) writes it all down.

Rogers, Judy—The Zuni Cafe Cookbook
For 24 years, San Franciscans of every variety have come to the Zuni Cafe with high expectations and have rarely left disappointed. In "The Zuni Cafe Cookbook," chef and owner Judy Rodgers provides recipes for Zuni's most well-known dishes, ranging from the Zuni Roast Chicken to the Espresso Granita.

Rosso, Julee & Sheila Lukins—The Silver Palate Cookbook
This immensely popular cookbook has stood the test of time and has been chosen for the James Beard Book Awards Hall of Fame. The cookbook contains 300 recipes of sophisticated, delicious, and easy-to-follow recipes, profusely illustrated with helpful line drawings.

Saltsman, Amelia—The Santa Monica Farmers' Market Cookbook (Blenheim Press)
Advice on how to select and store produce, stories about farmers and their crops, chef and farmer cooking tips, and more than 100 simple, tempting recipes.

Schlosser, Eric—The Pleasures of Slow Food
The Pleasures of Slow Food introduces readers to the Slow Food movement and its goals, while acquainting them with some of the producers worldwide who embody its spirit and objectives, and including 40 recipes from chefs and everyday cooks whose approach to food and cooking also represents the Slow Food ideal.

LOCAL Spears, Grady—A Cowboy in the Kitchen
Grady Spears has won a real following, and garnered an IACP Julia Child Award nomination, for the updated cowboy classics at Texas's noted Reata Restaurant. From innovative Tex-Mex flavors to perfectly prepared steaks to sinfully rich desserts, this is a book for the cowboy in all of us.

Thomas, Anna—The Vegetarian Epicure
A classic of meatless gourmet cuisine, The Vegetarian Epicure is both a wonderful first cookbook and a mainstay of the more experienced cook’s collection. Th omas presents recipes for delicious soups, salads, home-baked bread, soufflés, crepes, vegetable accompaniments, curries, desserts and more.

Waters, Alice—The Art of Simple Food
Hailed as one of Americas most influential chefs, Waters shares the simple yet flavorful dishes that have made Chez Panisse a can't miss stop on Americas culinary road map.

Waters, Alice—Chez Panisse Café Cookbook
A culinary visionary reveals the casual side of Chez Panisse with 144 recipes from the celebrated Cafe, from pizza to home-cured pancetta to apricot bread pudding. Color illustrations.

Waters, Alice—Chez Panisse Desserts
From the justly famous Berkeley restaurant, here is a selection of desserts, many of which feature fresh fruit, all of which bear the Alice Waters hallmark of innovative simplicity.

Waters, Alice—Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook
A collection of 120 seasonal menus from Alice Waters's famed Chez Panisse, a Berkeley, California institution since 1971.

Waters, Alice—Chez Panisse Pasta, Pizza & Calzone
A classic from Chez Panisse, the restaurant in Berkeley, California that was founded in 1971. Eighty-seven recipes for pasta sauces and 36 for pizza and calzone, as well as recipes for pasta doughs such as buckwheat, red pepper, and saffron.

Waters, Alice—Chez Panisse Vegetables
Since the opening of Chez Panisse in 1971, Alice Waters has made her misson to use seasonal, organic, local vegetables in her dishes and to educate Americans on growing and cooking fresh vegetables. Now, she offers a glorious cookbook which includs 300 of her best vegetable recipes, plus information on growing vegetables and how to select the best produce at the market. 4-color linecuts throughout.

Wayte, Annie—Keep it Seasonal
Keep It Seasonal is the ideal cookbook for those who shop at farmer's markets, Whole Foods, and Wild Oats. Wayte awakens cooks to ingredients that are truly fresh, local, and in season, and explains why buying locally grown foods is better than buying organic food trucked in from thousands of miles away.

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Bourdain, Anthony—Kitchen Confidential
New York chef Tony Bourdain gives away secrets of the trade in his wickedly funny, inspiring memoir and expos. "Kitchen Confidential" reveals what Bourdain calls "25 years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine".

Bauer, Douglas—Death By Pad Thai
Twenty nostalgic essays on the art of eating, cooking, and sharing over a table.

Chaskey, Scott—This Common Ground: Seasons on an Organic Farm
Chaskey eloquently describes the satisfactions of this kind of farming: the exquisitely fresh vegetables, the heirloom varieties he has revived, and the beauty of the place. He also makes a strong case for rotating crops, using compost, and relying on experience rather than conventional wisdom.

Child, Julia—My Life in France
This delightful memoir of Julia's years in Paris, Marseille, and Provence opens with Paul and Julia--a tall, wide-eyed girl from Pasadena who can't cook and doesn't speak a word of French--disembarking in Le Havre, and ends with the launching of the two "Mastering" cookbooks and Julia winning the heart of America as "The French Chef."

Chotzinoff, Robin—People with Dirty Hands
This eccentric, cross-country journey to discover why some people just have to make things grow simply rings with the singular voices of the people possessed. Chotzinoff captures the fervor of the all-encompassing passion that can drive a person to grow an eight-pound tomato.

Dawson, Carol & Carol Johnston—House of Plenty: The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Luby's Cafeterias
Who knew that the key to American success and salvation could be found on the cafeteria line? A morality tale that is both as compulsively readable as a mystery novel and as illuminating about the American psyche as anything published in recent years.

Fisher, MFK—The Art of Eating
This collection of Fisher's first five food-related books chronicle her life in Europe throughout the 1930s and 1940s, covering not only the delights of French cooking but the deprivations and substitutions of the war years.

Kamp, David—The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation
Kamp chronicles the amazing transformation from the overcooked vegetables and scary gelatin salads of yore to the current heyday of free-range chickens, extra-virgin olive oil, Whole Foods, Starbucks, and that breed of human known as the "foodie."

Kingsolver, Barbara—Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Novelist Kingsolver recounts a year spent eating home-grown food and, if not that, local. Accomplished gardeners, the Kingsolver clan grow a large garden in southern Appalachia and spend summers "putting food by," as the classic kitchen title goes. They make pickles, chutney and mozzarella; they jar tomatoes, braid garlic and stuff turkey sausage. Nine-year-old Lily runs a heritage poultry business, selling eggs and meat. What they don't raise (lamb, beef, apples) comes from local farms. Come winter, they feast on root crops and canned goods, menus slouching toward asparagus. Along the way, the Kingsolver family, having given up industrial meat years before, abandons its vegetarian ways and discovers the pleasures of conscientious carnivory.

Kingsolver, Barbara—Prodigal Summer
Set in Appalachia, Kingsolver's very pastoral novel tells the stories of three women who live close to the land. A wildlife biologist studying coyotes is fascinated by a young man with a passion for hunting. An intellectually inclined farmer's wife finds she must stand up for what she believes in. And two elderly country people battle about everything from religion to pesticides, and make startling changes in their lives.

Ozeki, Ruth L.—My Year of Meats
In this feisty, terrifying, and ultimately heartwarming novel, two women--one in America, one in Japan--take on the beef industry, hoping to expose the dangers of hormone use in cattle farming.

Reichl, Ruth—Comfort Me With Apples: More Adventures at the Table
The second volume of Ruth Reichl's autobiography takes her into adulthood, and chronicles her romantic life as well as her evolution into a food critic. It includes accounts of the memorable food that accompanied memorable moments in her life, including her days in a Berkeley commune, her second husband's favorite chocolate cake, and a trip to China with her father.

Reichl, Ruth—Garlic & Sahpphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
Reichl focuses on her life as a food critic, dishing up a feast of fabulous meals enjoyed during her tenure at The New York Times. As a critic, Reichl was determined to review the "true" nature of each restaurant she visited, so she often dined incognito--each chapter of her book highlights a new disguise, a different restaurant (including the original reviews from the Times), and a fresh culinary adventure.

Reichl, Ruth—Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
A memoir of growing up eating and cooking. Born in Manhattan, raised in Connecticut, Reichl had an upper-class upbringing that included trips to Paris, then became a commune-dweller after graduating from college. This chronicle, which includes recipes, ends in the 1970s.

LOCAL Ross, M. Jane—Kitchen Table Stories
A delightful collection of food stories and poems by members of the non-profit Story Circle Network, each story and poem accompanied by the beloved recipe that's behind the tale. Kitchen Table Stories celebrates our stories and the important part that food and cooking has in all our lives.

LOCAL Sharpe, Patricia—Confessions of A Skinny Bitch
Food editor of Texas Monthly, Patricia Sharpe, dishes out the skinny on her work and her figure.

Steingarten, Jeffery—The Man Who Ate Everything
Urbane, informative, and highly entertaining essays by Vogue food columnist Steingarten, about bread, choucroute, barbecue, fat farms, the wonders of red wine, and French fries cooked in horse fat--among other things.

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Anderson, Jean & Barbara Deskins—The Nutrition Bible (William Morrow & Co)
Giving straight answers to today's complex nutritional questions, this guide defines and explains foods, nutrients, additives, pollutants, enzymes, hormones, and food-related diseases and deficiencies, and debunks food and nutrition myths and misconceptions. At-a-glance charts supply RDAs for essential vitamins and minerals and nutrient counts for 1,500 foods.

Arndt, Alice—Culinary Biographies
This volume is an eclectic dictionary of influential people in the culinary fields throughout history, from the sixth century B.C.E. to the twenty-first century.

Beard, James—James Beard's Theory and Practice of Good Cooking
Dating from the 1960s, James Beard's Theory and Practice of Good Cooking provides a guide to basic cooking techniques as well as practical advice on the selection of pots and pans, knives, and other kitchen essentials. Each recipe comes with variations so that the cook can easily expand his or her repertoire.

Couplan, Francois & James A. Duke—Encyclopedia of Edible Plants of North America
From horsetails, ferns, and conifers to shrubs, vines, and herbaceous species, this guide describes how to find, identify, and use hundreds of plants as tasty morsels.

Culinary Institute of America—The Professional Chef, 8th Edition
Guides culinary students--professional aspirants and serious home cooks, alike--to mastery of the kitchen. Think Like a Chef - Tom Colicchio from the Gramercy Tavern in New York City, chef Tom Colicchio presents the recipes and techniques that have made his place famous, including the best way to roast, how to make great stocks, and how to use ordinary ingredients in extraordinary ways. He also provides ingenious advice on making an exciting dish out of just three ingredients.

Folse, John D.—The Encyclopedia of Cajun & Creole Cuisine
Chef Folse's seventh cookbook is the authoritative collection on Louisiana's culture and cuisine. You will not only find step-by-step directions to preparing everything from a roux to a cochon de lait, but you will also learn about the history behind these recipes.

Howard, Sir Albert—An Agricultural Testament (Rodale Press)
Sir Albert Howard was the first pioneer of the organic method. The son of a Shropshire farmer, he studied agriculture at Cambridge University, then expanded his knowledge in a lifetime of practical research and study in the West Indies, India and England. An Agricultural Testament, his exposition of his practice theories of agriculture, remains a landmark work over 60 years after its original publication.

Jacob, Dianne—Will Write for Food
Food lovers who want to express themselves through article writing, restaurant reviewing and cookbook writing will find the tools to get started in the incredibly popular world of food writing.

The King Arthur Baking Company, Inc.—The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion: The All Purpose Baking Cookbook
From Christmas cookies and pancakes to chocolate cake and sandwich bread, this "baker's companion" will be there to guide home bakers every step of the way.

Kiple, Kenneth—The Cambridge World History of Food
A country-by-country survey of food and culture.

McGee, Harold—On Food & Cooking
Harold McGee's perennially helpful and fascinating tome delves deeply into its subject from a variety of angles. Ranging through foods and cooking techniques around the globe, McGee reveals their history, their science (including why certain foods taste good together), and even the literature surrounding them.

Mollison, Bill—Introduction to Permaculture
Written to introduce readers to Permaculture concepts and design strategies.

Pitchford, Paul—Healing with Whole Foods
The authoritative source on East/West nutrition, this comprehensive reference has been completely revised and updated with information on the benefits of whole foods for overcoming degenerative diseases.

Price, Weston A.—Nutrition and Physical Degeneration (Keats)
At the end 20th century, the idea that the food we eat affects our physical structure for good or ill is almost universally accepted. Sixty years ago it wasn't, and the publication of Nutrition and Physical Degeneration rocked the worlds of science and nutrition with Dr. Price's irrefutable evidence and documentation of this concept. Even today, this outstanding book remains the basic text and essential reading for anyone concerned with nutrition and disease prevention.

Rombauer, Irma S. & Marion Rombauer Becker—The Joy of Cooking
The bestselling cookbook of all time.

Ruhlman, Michael—The Elements of Cooking
Ruhlman is renowned for bringing the secrets of great cooking to a large audience, just as he did in The Making of a Chef and The French Laundry Cookbook. Now, he pares the knowledge of the kitchen into the essentials of good cooking in a slim, easy-to-use book.

Wittenberg, Margaret M.—New Good Food: Essential Ingredients for Cooking and Eating Well
In this updated edition of the definitive guide to buying, storing, and preparing whole foods, industry veteran Wittenberg offers one-stop advice on organics, buying local, sustainability, and more.

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LOCAL Aston, Dianna & Sylvia Long—An Egg is Quiet
Award-winning artist Long teams with up-and-coming author Aston to create this gorgeous and informative introduction to eggs. From tiny hummingbird eggs to giant ostrich eggs, it magnificently captures the incredible variety of eggs and celebrates their beauty and wonder.

LOCAL Aston, Dianna & Sylvia Long—A Seed is Sleepy
Award-winning artist Long and author Aston have teamed up to create this gorgeous follow-up to their An Egg Is Quiet, introducing children to a fascinating array of seed and plant facts.

Carle, Eric—The Very Hungry Caterpillar
On Sunday a caterpillar hatches from his egg. On Monday he eats an apple. On Tuesday he eats two pears. On Wednesday he eats three plums. The hungry caterpillar eats more and more food for every day of the week. What will happen to the caterpillar after all this eating?

dePaula, Tomie—Strega Nona
Although Strega Nona, a magical village elder, warns Big Anthony to never touch her pasta pot, Big Anthony is unable to resist, and as soon as he can, he takes the pot to the town square to prove to the doubtful villagers that he, too, has magical powers. However, Big Anthony doesn't know the true secret of Strega Nona's pot, and although he is able to get it to cook up the pasta, he is unable to get it to stop. Has Big Anthony cooked his goose, or will Strega Nona sweep in to save the day?

Ehlert, Lois—Eating the Alphabet
An alphabetical tour of the world of fruits and vegetables, from apricot and artichoke to yam and zucchini.

Ehlert, Lois—Planting a Rainbow
This is a simple, stylized introduction to the joys of gardening, showing the varieties of blooms and bright colors that grow in a flowerbed.

Hoban, Russel—Bread and Jam for Francis
When Frances refuses to eat her soft-boiled egg for breakfast, her chicken-salad sandwich for lunch, or her breaded veal cutlet with string beans for dinner, her frustrated parents agree that she should be served only her favorite foods--bread and jam. Although she is surprised by her
parents' decision, Frances is thrilled to eat bread and jam for breakfast, and happy to find it again in her lunchbox at school. However, when her after school snack and dinner also consists of only bread and jam, Frances breaks down and admits that she would like to eat something else. Frances's parents happily agree, and soon Frances finds herself eating, and enjoying, a wide variety of foods.

Hoberman, Mary Ann—The Seven Silly Eaters
Peter wants only milk, Lucy won't settle for anything less than homemade lemonade, and Jack is stuck on applesauce. Each new addition to the household brings a new demand for a special meal. What's a mother to do?

Krauss, Ruth & Crockett Johnson—The Carrot Seed
A little boy plants a carrot seed. His family tells him it will never grow, but the boy doesn't listen. Day by day, he cares for the seed, watering it, and weeding around it, but day after day, nothing grows. Then, finally, a carrot comes up--just as the hardworking boy knew it would. In only 101 words, this simple, elegant story tells of the rich, and sometimes very large, rewards of faith and persistence.

Lovejoy, Sharon—Roots, Shoots, Buckets and Boots
This book presents 12 themed gardens for adults and children to plant together such as a "Moon Garden" of night blossoming flowers and a garden of herbal remedies known as "Mother Nature's Medicine Chest."

McCloskey, Robert—Blueberries for Sal (Puffin Books)
When a young girl named Sal goes blueberry picking with her mother, she does far more eating than collecting. With her mother distracted by her goal of picking enough berries to preserve for the winter, young Sal wonders off, and is soon far from her mother's watchful eye. Meanwhile, a mother bear is urging her young cub to eat enough berries to survive the long hibernation that awaits them both. Like Sal, the bear cub wonders off on his own, and he, too, is soon far from his mother's protective care. Blueberries for Sal is an appreciation of the natural world, as well as a look at the similarities that exist between these two very different families.

Sanger, Amy Wilson—World Snack Series
First Book of Sushi and Let's Nosh are just two examples of the World Snack Series, toddler friendly board books meant to introduce young eaters to the wonders of ethnic cuisine.

Sendak, Maurice—Chicken Soup with Rice
An introduction to the months of the year via a rhyming text that also celebrates the wonders of chicken soup.

Sendak, Maurice—In the Night Kitchen
Mickey goes on a romp in the wonderful night kitchen, where bakers make bread while the rest of the world sleeps. He imaginatively devises a way to get the milk the bakers need.

Titus, Eve—Anatole (McGraw-Hill)
In his debut, Anatole begins his career as First Vice-President in Charge of Cheese-Tasting at the Duval Cheese Factory. No one knows, however, that he is a mouse--not a man--because his excellent work is executed late at night!

Waters, Alice—Fanny at Chez Panisse
Alice Waters' charming book of stories and recipes told from the viewpoint of a little girl whose mother runs a restaurant.

Zabar, Abbie—Alphabet Soup (Stewart, Tabori & Chang)
Descriptions of twenty-six unfamiliar but everyday foods from around the world, with drawings, anecdotes, and histories. Includes couscous, rijsttafel, goulash, kebabs, and Welsh rabbit.

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LOCAL Alan, David—Tipsy Texan
Edible Austin's own David Alan expounds on the cocktail and other topics related to this finer form of libation.

LOCAL Bowers, Christian—Austin Food Journal
Tantalizing images and delightfully honest reflection and opinions on local foods, locations, and writtings, as well as a healthy stock of Mr. Bowers personal culinary exploits, which leave a reader nothing short of breathless (and jealous).

Dollars & Sense: The Magazine of Economic Justice
Dollars & Sense publishes economic news and analysis, reports on economic justice activism, primers on economic topics, and critiques of the mainstream media's coverage of the economy. Our readers include professors, students, and activists who value our smart and accessible economic coverage.

Fain, Lisa—Homesick Texan: Musings on life, love and the pursuit of good refried beans.
Proust had his Madeline, Lisa Fain has refried beans. An expat Texan who lives in New York City. This blog is a record of her quest for food that reminds her of home, and other food-related musings that befit a homesick Texan.

Not Eating out in New York
Writer, Cathy, sets out to explore "eating more and consuming less" while chronicling her culinary endeavors in the Big Apple.

Serious Eats
Serious Eats is a website focused on celebrating and sharing food enthusiasm through blogs and online community. A unique combination of community and content brings together the distinctive voices of food bloggers, compelling original and acquired food video, and spirited, inclusive, conversations about all things food- and drink-related.

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