Food Book Club

If you have interest in joining or hosting a Slow Food Book Club, email us at slowfoodinchicago@gmail.com and let us know!

In the past, we’ve read:

• The Carnivore's Manifesto by Patrick Martins

• Provence, 1970 by Luke Barr

• Best of Food Writing:

  • "Chicken of the Trees" by Mike Sula of the Chicago Reader
    "A Toast Story" by John Gravois of Pacific Standard
    "Old School" by Cynthia C. Scott of Graze
    "The Empanada Theory" by Lauren Clem of Graze
    "The Quinoa Quarrel" by Lisa M. Hamilton of Harper's

• Four Fish : The Future of the Last Wild Food by Paul Greenberg

• An Everlasting Meal by Tamar Adler

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

• The Art of Eating by M.F.K. Fisher

• Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman

• Unprocessed by Megan Kimble

• The Soil Will Save Us by Kristin Ohlson

• The Seasons on Henry's Farm by Terra Brockman

• The Third Plate by Dan Barber

• Skin Cleanse by Adina Grigore

• Relish by Lucy Knisley

• Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

• The Food Activist Handbook by Ali Berlow

• Farmer Jane by Temra Costa

• Poor Man’s Feast by Elissa Altman

• Give a Girl a Knife by Amy Thielen

• The End of Food by Paul Roberts

• The Art of Flavor by Daniel Patterson and Mandy Aftel

• In Praise of Slowness by Carl Honore

Gorgeous header photo by Alexandra's Kitchen