Food Education

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, nearly 1 in 4 households experienced food insecurity in 2020. These numbers are expected to rise at the same time inflation is causing food prices to climb. Over the last few years, the alarming empty shelves are causing people to worry about scarcity.

Words to Eat By explores the remarkable stories behind five of our most basic food words, words which reveal fascinating aspects of the evolution of the English language and our powerful associations with certain foods. Using sources that vary from Roman histories and early translations of the Bible to Julia Child's recipes and Frank Bruni's restaurant reviews, Ina Lipkowitz shows how saturated with French and Italian names the English culinary vocabulary is, "from a la carte to zabaglione."

Fermented foods are a delicious and rich source of nourishment. Many of our favorite everyday foods like beer, wine, cheese, bread, and yogurt, or beloved family traditions like sauerkraut, corned beef, and kimchi, are the result of fermentation. Besides adding complexity and flavor to many foods, fermentation is also proven to add amazing health benefits - from promoting healthy digestion to allowing our body to fully absorb the necessary nutrients in our food. However, many beginners are skittish about starting the process of fermentation for the first time.

The Homestead Basics Series is a collection of works that answer the often-asked questions of individuals trying to start living more self-sufficiently. Each book in this set holds solid information geared toward the beginning hobbyist as well as links to multiple videos explaining the processes described in more detail. Check out this series, it is packed with valuable information that will jump-start your journey to being more sustainable and self-sufficient.

This is an unofficial companion guide to Michael Greger's How Not to Die It is meant to enhance your listening experience and is not the original book.

This summary of The Plant Paradox will open you up to the darker, hidden side of dubbed healthy food and where it all went wrong so that you can start to take action right away. You will understand how certain foods and products are affecting you on a cellular level—and what you need to do about it.

If you want to learn some exquisite recipes of Filipino dishes, then check this How to Cook Filipino Food guide. In this step-by-step guide, you will discover recipes that are surely mouthwatering and inviting to eat.

This is the audio summary of How Not to Die, a convenient resource on how to optimize your health and stave off life-threatening diseases like cancer. Packed with groundbreaking evidence from the world of nutrition science about the world’s healthiest foods and diets, this book will tell you how to incorporate them into your everyday life.

You will discover all the proven insider pug secrets you’ll need to have the very best experience with your pug. The pug breed is very unique, as is about to be revealed. Everything is covered from pug history, finding the best pug for you, pug puppies, how to pick the best, and avoid the worst! Pug care and keeping your pug healthy, ensuring great behavior, is all covered. Importantly, pug life stages are all covered from puppies to adolescence, training, to adulthood. This audiobook is a must if you are passionate about the pug.

In the US, there is a wide-ranging network of at least 370 food banks, and more than 60,000 hunger-relief organizations such as food pantries and meal programs. And yet hunger still affects one in nine Americans. What are we doing wrong? In Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries, Katie Martin argues that if handing out more and more food was the answer, we would have solved the problem of hunger decades ago. Martin instead presents a new model for charitable food, one where success is measured not by pounds of food distributed but by lives changed.

Your passport to giving your children the gift of speaking a foreign language is in this book. The seeds of establishing vocabulary, recognition, and pronunciation will be planted today with My Bilingual Baby Speaks French! This book will take you through the alphabet of foods from A to Z! It's very gratifying and heartwarming to see and hear your child speaking in a foreign language. As a native English-speaking mother of four I'm grateful that I had the foresight to provide my babies with the gift of not just being bilingual, but trilingual.

Foodborne illness is a serious problem that can affect anyone. Everyone needs to know the basics of food safety at home to protect themselves and their loved ones. We all deserve a safe meal every day, and we can achieve this by following some simple steps outlined in Basics of Food Safety at Home! After hearing these essential tips, you will never feel helpless again about protecting yourself and your loved ones from foodborne illnesses. You don't have time or energy for misinformation when it comes to keeping your family safe from food poisoning.

Do you want to create a sustainable food forest and garden in your backyard, but don’t know how to start? Plenty of beginning gardeners want to grow their own food, but aren’t sure they can handle the maintenance. Put all of those worries aside — this book will walk you through every step. You’ll be amazed at the bounty you’ll harvest from such a small space without having to expend too much effort or too many resources. It’s possible to create a sustainable food forest around your home, and this book will show you how.

There's no getting away from it: survival expert Bear Grylls has eaten some pretty extreme things in his time - live tarantulas, raw goat testicles, elephant dung, you name it. In a situation when your life depends on it, you need to put your prejudices aside to keep your stomach filled and your strength up.

So, you’ve decided you want to reap the rewards from all that mother nature has to offer, have you? You live in one of the most beautiful and bountiful locations on the planet.... So why wouldn’t you tap into all of this potential? But did you know that amongst all the beauty and the wide assortment of plants and fungi, there is also a large handful of dangerous and even poisonous look-alikes? That’s not to say the forest is a dangerous place - quite the opposite, actually. You just have to make sure you know what you’re doing.

Mushrooms aren’t just easy to grow and delicious to eat. Even for beginners, they represent an opportunity to start a lucrative business that is much easier than many other types of farming, which requires only limited experience or knowledge and doesn’t require acres of land to get started. Whether you want to grow mushrooms as a hobby, give yourself an additional source of food that is readily available, or start a small-scale business, Growing Mushrooms is the perfect book to get you going and provides all you will need in the initial stages and beyond.

Green Beret and outdoor survival expert Mykel Hawke provides the most practical and accessible survival skills and information necessary for anyone to survive an unexpected situation in the outdoors. These are the most tried-and-true methods based on Hawke’s 25-year career as a captain in the US Army Green Berets, founder of the survival training company Spec Ops Inc, and popular survival expert on a wide range of television shows. Geared to the untrained civilian, Hawke provides essential and easy-to-apply information.

Introduce your child to the vibrant world of Spanish with "My Kiddo's First Spanish Words: A Joyful Journey through ABCs, Numbers, Colors, Animals, Shapes, and Foods." This delightful audiobook is perfect for English-speaking kids who are eager to explore a new language in a fun and engaging way. This book is designed for young learners and combines imagination and fun with useful new words, making it an ideal resource for early language development.

We live in a world that’s on the brink of collapse. Life as we know it is soon going to drastically change, and I’m sorry to say, not for the best. War is happening everywhere around us, borders are being closed imprisoning people in their own homes, viruses and bacteria are evolving at an unprecedented rate, keeping science almost helpless in the perpetual fight for the survival of the human species.

Food has power to nourish your mind, supporting emotional wellness through both nutrients and pleasure. In this groundbreaking book, journalist Mary Beth Albright draws on cutting-edge research to explain the food/mood connection. She redefines “emotional eating” based on the science, revealing how eating triggers biological responses that affect humans’ emotional states both immediately and long-term.