Books + Films

Rescuing the World’s Rarest Foods

The climate crisis, colonization, and prioritizing yield above all else has resulted in the loss of the world’s biodiversity.

20 Books About Food to Carry You Through Summer 2022

Uncover the hidden world of food this summer with these 20 books.

Community, Tradition, and Food Bring Health in The Kitchenistas Documentary

“The Kitchenistas” documentary shows that the journey to eating healthy requires a supportive community as much as it requires good food.

Memoir Recounts Landmark Case that Helped Save Family Farmers

The book follows Sarah Vogel’s journey in the 1980s as she represented more than 245,000 farmers in a historical lawsuit that radically reformed how the USDA treats farmers.

New Book Lifts Up Traditional Farming Practices as a Solution to the Climate Crisis

Healing Grounds highlights traditional farming practices that can build resilience in response to climate change.

Food Tank’s Spring 2022 Book List

Food Tank is rounding up 20 titles that celebrate ancestral farming practices, document the importance of marine ecosystems, introduce readers to new recipes, and more.

“Stand in Your Authority. And the Only Way You Can Do That Is to Know What You Know,” Says Toni Tipton-Martin

Toni Tipton-Martin discusses the contributions of historical Black culinary professionals, her latest cookbook, and importance of rigor and discipline to becoming who you are.

Transformative change cannot be done alone, says filmmaker Raj Patel

“Collectively, we have to get with the idea that we’re living on the same planet as everybody else, and we can’t go around trashing it,” says Patel.

A-dae Romero-Briones: “We have to recognize that we are all living, breathing stories”

Filmmakers need to have experience in philanthropy and an established network to tell these types of stories, says Director Sanjay Rawal, and this means that “the right people to tell the stories usually aren’t the ones telling the stories.”

18 Inspiring Documentaries on Food and Agriculture

Check out some of Food Tank’s favorite recent food docs and docuseries.

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