by Dan Barber
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———, Grass Productivity (New York: Philosophical Library, 1959).
Walters, Charles, Weeds: Control Without Poisons (Kansas City: Acres U.S.A., 1991).
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Willis, Harold, Foundations of Natural Farming: Understanding Core Concepts of Ecological Agriculture (Austin, TX: Acres USA, 2007).
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Fussell, Betty, Raising Steaks: The Life and Times of American Beef (Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2008).
Imhoff, Daniel, ed., The CAFO Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories (Berkeley: Watershed Media, 2010).
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SEA
Bowermaster, Jon, ed., Oceans: The Threats to Our Seas and What You Can Do to Turn the Tide (New York: PublicAffairs, 2010).
Carson, Rachel, The Sea Around Us (New York: Oxford University Press, 1951).
Danson, Ted, Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them (Emmaus, PA: Rodale Books, 2011).
Ellis, Richard, The Empty Ocean (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2003).
Greenberg, Paul, Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food (New York: Penguin Press, 2010).
Jacobsen, Rowan, The Living Shore: Rediscovering a Lost World (New York: Bloomsbury, 2009).
Molyneaux, Paul, Swimming in Circles: Aquaculture and the End of Wild Oceans (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2007).
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SEED
Brown, Lester, Full Planets, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity (New York: W. W. Norton, 2012).
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———, Why Some Like It Hot: Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2006).
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GENERAL FURTHER READING
Ackerman-Leist, Philip, Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable, and Secure Food Systems (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2013).
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Sokolov, Raymond, Why We Eat What We Eat: How Columbus Changed the Way the World Eats (New York: Touchstone, 1991).
Soule, Judith, and Jon Piper, Farming in Nature’s Image: An Ec
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Wirzba, Norman, ed., The Essential Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2003).
INDEX
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Abend, Lisa, 119, 120–26, 130, 158, 161–65, 178, 189–92, 194, 221, 223, 236, 239, 241, 243, 282–85, 287–94, 298, 300, 303, 309, 310, 315–16, 332
Abraham and Lot, story of, 28
acorns, 104, 125, 128–29, 160–61, 164, 167–69, 172, 174, 176n, 177n, 179, 182, 183, 191, 298
Advertising Age, 149
Agricultural Testament, An (Howard), 76
agriculture:
aquaculture and, 261–62
beginning of, 359
biodynamic, 265–66
“culture” in, 175, 377
Green Revolution and, 362, 364, 367, 368, 369, 412
industrial, 93, 368
irrigation and, 365
land-grant system and, 386–87, 396, 397, 406, 420, 421
landrace, 358–60, 361, 364, 366–70, 372, 377–78, 380, 392, 402, 404, 408
middle of, 330
organic, see organic agriculture
in South, 346–48
sustainable, see sustainability
Albrecht, William, 60–62, 64, 67, 71, 75, 81, 94–95, 97–99, 112, 113
Alex (pastry chef), see Grunert, Alex
alfalfa, 395
algae, 222
blooms of, 216, 245–46, 287
Algiere, Jack, 2–3, 5–8, 79–94, 98, 104, 182, 207, 262–63, 317, 338, 361, 377, 378, 383–85, 387, 422, 434–35, 438, 439, 442, 443–47
Algiere, Shannon, 83
almadraba, 273–75, 282–83, 287–90, 293–302, 303, 304, 313, 316
alpha-amylase, 415
alveograph, 414, 416
American Farmland Trust, 13
amino acids, 87
ammonia, 73, 92–93
anchovies, 292
Ancienne Alsace à Table, L’ (Gérard), 110
Anson Mills, 343, 349–55, 356, 371, 373, 379
anthracnose, 67
antibiotics, 235
antioxidants, 87, 149n
Aponiente, 221–33, 234, 236, 272, 301, 303–5, 311, 315–17
apricots, 406
aquaculture (fish farming), 157, 235–36, 242, 271–72, 277, 303–4, 317, 442
agriculture and, 261–62
feed conversion ratio and, 235
of tuna, 297–98
at Veta la Palma, see Veta la Palma
Aragon 03 wheat, 389–92, 404–7
artichokes, 103
asparagus, 8–9
ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms), 357
Avery, Dennis, 329, 330
Ávila Camacho, Manuel, 362
Bacon, Francis, 268
Baelo Claudia, 300–302
bakers, see bread bakers
Balfour, Eve, 18–19
Balthazar Bakery, 410
Balzac, Honoré de, 420
Barbate, 283, 285, 287–89, 291–94, 299–302
Barber, David, 3, 104, 143, 151, 335, 435–36
Barber wheat, 406, 409, 410, 414, 422
barley, 327, 352, 367, 418, 437, 445
bass, 236–37, 241, 242–43, 255, 256, 276–77, 285–86, 306, 307, 313, 314, 315, 318
Bates, Caroline, 206, 210–11, 212, 222, 288
Bauermeister wheat, 416, 417, 422
Bayh-Dole Act, 396
beans, 71, 344, 369, 426, 437
soybeans, 66, 67, 88, 103, 324, 328, 367, 372, 395, 437
Three Sisters planting strategy, 6, 378, 446
beef, 27, 35, 62, 150, 155n, 261, 298, 324, 443–44
Morucha, 174
Bennett, Hugh, 47–48
Benyus, Janine, 44–45
Berry, Wendell, 11, 20, 48, 145, 175
biodynamic agriculture, 265–66
biomass dilution, 95
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (Benyus), 44–45
birds, 246–49, 262–63, 265, 268, 302
agriculture’s threat to, 247–48
decrease in population of, 248
flamingos, 244–45, 249–50, 312
Birkett Mills, 325
biscuits, 354–55
Bistrong, Brian, 251–52, 258
Block, John, 396n
Blue Hill at Stone Barns, 12–13, 36–37, 78, 80, 142, 144, 160, 171, 202–12, 229, 337, 424–25, 431
Alex’s brioche at, 334–36, 338, 340, 341, 343
Gouze at, 203, 206
Martens’ wheat at, 334–48, 410
menu for 2050, 432–46
Blue Hill Farm, 3–5, 112, 201, 435–36
corn-only year at, 3, 5, 20
cows at, 55–57, 60–61
Blue Hill New York, 276–77
asparagus at, 8–9
as farm-to-table restaurant, 8, 9
Blue Ribbon Seafood, 253
Blue wheat, 434–35, 438, 444
Bocuse, Paul, 137, 138–39, 140, 141, 149, 254
Bonny Doon Vineyard, 91
bootleggers, 349, 350, 351, 357
Borlaug, Norman, 363, 364, 365, 369, 402, 422
Bosch, Carl, 73
boudin noir, 441
Bouley, 209, 251–52, 257–59, 281
Bouley, David, 140, 205, 209, 251–52, 256–59, 276, 290
Boulud, Daniel, 140
bread, 35–37, 38, 340, 344, 410–23
biscuits, 354–55
brioche, 334–48, 340, 341, 343, 434–35
enriched, 417
plankton, 224, 225
sugars in, 417
white, 339
whole grain, 341
bread bakers, 51, 339, 340, 410–22
craft, 417
industrial, 416–17
Breadfarm, 420–21
Bread Lab, 414–23, 430, 434
Breaking the Spell (Dennett), 339
bream, 231–32
breeders, 387–89, 401–2, 405–6, 410, 430, 434, 439
at Cornell University, 328, 387–89
paying of, for seeds, 396
breeding, 407–8, 418, 439
for flavor, 389, 403
breweries, 418, 445
Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme, 16, 369
brioche, 334–48, 340, 341, 343
whole wheat Blue, 434–35
Brix, 81, 85, 92, 93
Broiler Belt, 147
Brouwer, Brook, 418
Browne Trading Company, 277, 279
BST, 324–25, 326
buckwheat, 437
buffalo, 300, 427
Bush, George H. W., 156
butter, 435–37
Butz, Earl, 145
bycatch, 215, 229, 230, 305, 333
Cádiz, 274, 275, 283, 293
calcium, 87, 218n
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in spinach, 98–99
caldereta de cordero, 179
Calgene, 385
Callahan, Philip, 54n
Cantisano, Amigo Bob, 31, 79–80, 83
carbon, 63, 64, 218, 355, 437
carbon cycle, 217–18
carbon dioxide, 218
carbonic acid, 218n
Cárdeno, 164–65, 170, 176
Cárdeno, Placido, 164–65, 169–72, 174
Cárdeno, Ringo, 169–70
Cárdeno, Rodrigo, 164–65, 169–71
Carême, Marie-Antoine, 352
Carolina Gold rice, 345, 348, 352, 353–54, 376–81
Carolina Rice Kitchen, 345, 347–48, 352, 353
Carolina White rice, 353
carotenoids, 149n
carotene, 315
carrots, 80–81, 86, 89, 90, 92–94, 96, 99, 304, 315, 317
mokum, 81, 85, 92–94, 96
carrot steak, 18–19, 432, 443
Carson, Rachel, 209, 239–40, 248n
cattails, 433–34
cattle, 74, 79, 103, 113, 172–73, 324, 366, 423
beef from, see beef
at Blue Hill Farm, 55–57, 60–61
diets of, 27, 28, 56, 60–61, 64, 66, 97, 114, 298, 327, 332, 333, 440
growth hormones given to, 324–25, 326
living conditions of, 74
milk from, see milk
Morucha, 174
Cedroni, Moreno, 311–12
chanfaina, 179
Chapel, Alain, 138, 139–40, 254
charcoal, 174, 441
cheese, 428
sheep’s-milk, 173, 179
chefs, 10–11, 12, 17, 21–22, 35, 51, 68, 122, 134, 135–38, 155, 222, 247, 304, 319, 333, 337, 368, 374–75, 379, 388–89, 402, 411, 420, 424, 425, 430, 439
farm-to-table, 11, 15, 139–40
fish and, 218–20, 233, 236, 252, 260, 272, 279–81, 399–400, 442
nouvelle cuisine, 10, 137–41, 149, 259, 306
sushi, 204, 255–56
Chemistry in Its Application to Agriculture and Physiology (Liebig), 72–73
Chez Panisse, 135, 136, 336
chicken(s), 14, 114, 142–51, 152–57
broiler, 148
in Broiler Belt, 147
cost of, 156, 157
eggs, 147, 149