Read, Watch, Listen

We invite you to expand your knowledge of good, clean, and fair food through reading, watching, and listening about Equity, Justice and Inclusion. We welcome any feedback on or additions to this list and hope you will connect with the many authors and producers who help us explore the multitude of possibilities for creating a more equitable, healthy, and just food system.

Below you will find the titles and links to our recommended resources. All of these books can be purchased at the Slow Food USA online bookstore. 10% of all SFUSA book sales goes toward the SF National Resilience Fund.

Read

• A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, and Resistance in the City by Alison Hope Alkon, Yuki Kato, and Joshua Sbicca

• Afro Vegan and Vegetable Kingdom - both great cookbooks by Bryant Terry

• Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas by Judith Ann Carney

• Braiding Sweetgrass : Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

• Between Harlem and Heaven: Afro-Asian-American Cooking for Big Nights, Weeknights, and Every Day, Alexander Smalls

• Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability by Alison Hope Alkon

• Farming While Black : Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman

• Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement by Monica M. White

• Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States by Seth Holmes

• Fresh India, Meera Sodha

• High on the Hog by Dr. Jessica B. Harris

• Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History) by Frederick Douglass Opie

• Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States by Devon A. Mihesuah, Elizabeth Hoover and Winona LaDuke

• The Color of Food: Stories of Race, Resilience, and Farming by Natasha Bowens

• The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty

• The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks by Toni Tipton-Martin

• The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools by Jennifer E. Gaddis

• The Rise, Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food, Marcus Samuelsson

• The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen by Sean Sherman

• The Taste of Country Cooking by Edna Lewis

• We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time by Jose Andres

• Women on Food: 115+ Writers, Chefs, Critics, Television Stars, and Eaters edited by Charlotte Druckman

• Civil Eats Newsletter

Watch

• 13th

• Deeply Rooted about John Coykendall

• Gather stories of Native Americans on the frontlines of a growing movement

• Hearts of Glass

• High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America

• John Lewis: Good Trouble

• Look & See : A Portrait of Wendell Berry

• Seasons on Henry’s Farm

• Somebody Feed Phil / Season 3, Chicago, featuring Urban Growers Collective in Chicago!

• Sustainable

• Uncorked

Listen

• 1619 Project

• Bite Podcast, Tom Philpot, Mother Jones: White People Own 98 Percent of Rural Land, Young Farmers Are Asking for It Back

• Citizen Chef podcast by Tom Colicchio

• Flipping the Table Podcast

• Food Talk (Food Tank) Podcast

• Foodtopias podcast by Real Food Media

• It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders Podcast: Interview: Vann Newkirk On How Black Farmers Were Robbed Of Their Land

• On Pasture: Paul DeCampo, Slow Food and Food Equity Episode

• Real Soul Food Podcast: Provocative Conversations on Topics And Issues That Are “Normalized” In Black Communities

• The Secret Ingredient: An Interview With Scholar Harper Breeze On Whiteness In The Food System

• Toasted Sister Podcast: Radio about Native American Food

• The Iconoclast Dinner Experience Impolite Conversation Podcast