Book Recommendations

[earthstanding]

Hey all,
I was curious what books the fermenting community would recommend as must-reads.

Here's my list:
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Understanding Our Mind by Thich Nhat Hanh
- The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins
- The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen
- Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World by David Orr
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Moral Principles in Education by John Dewey

What are your picks?

[Tim Hall]

Uh oh. You got the bibliophile started...

Food, fermentation, agriculture
The One Straw Revolution, Masanobu Fukuoka.
The Revolution Will Not be Microwaved, Sandorkraut.
Wild Fermentation, Sandorkraut.
The Yoga of Eating, Charles Eisenstein.
Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers, SH Buhner (I love this book as a reference for medicinal herbs in the context of food, but I'm not sure I'd follow any of his exact recipes).
I'll stop here...have too many books on this subject.

Philosophy, Nature, Other
The One Straw Revolution, Masanobu Fukuoka.
Dale Pendell's Pharmako series...even if you're not interested in the pharmacology of plants, these books are poetic genius, and very interesting from a historical and ethnobotanical point of view.
Anything written or said by J. Krishnamurti.
The Spell of the Sensuous, David Abram.

Fiction
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov

[Tim Hall]

Earthstanding,

If you like 1984 and Brave New World you might want to check out We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin...it's THE original dystopian. Almost prophetic when you put the story in it's historical context.

Haven't read The Culture of Make Believe, but I have a copy of A Language Older than Words. Tough book to read. Couldn't get through more than 3-4 chapters.

[earthstanding]

Those looks like some great books. Thanks for letting me know about them (a few of them are actually on my BookMooch wishlist already)!

Yeah, Derrick Jensen's writing is emotionally intense. He has a tendency of tearing down your perceptions and then rebuilding them. I admit he doesn't provide too many solutions to the problems he writes about in many of his books, but he has helped me to take off some of my cultural lenses. Daniel Quinn's Ishmael did an even better job at doing this.

[vann]

Here's a very useful food book:

The Flavor Bible, by Page & Dornenburg.

http://www.amazon.com/Flavor-Bible-Esse ... 393&sr=8-1

Basically an encyclopedia of basic foods, spices, herbs, and flavors that describes how different foods are most often combined. For example, jalapenos often go with lime, lemon, tomato, onion, garlic, black beans, pinto beans, roasted meat, etc, etc.

[earthstanding]

Oh I love The Flavor Bible. I got it for my girlfriend last Christmas. It allows so much creativity in your meals.

[FermentingFoods]

I agree that Wild Fermentation, Sandorkraut. is the bible for this right now. I also recommend "The Tipping Point" by Gladwell, it is a great book and we all should always keep in mind the tipping point in fermentation as well.