If you already have a copy of Feed: Reading Lists for Those Who Eat, you can add the following titles:

• Farm City: The education of an urban farmer by Novella Carpenter (2010)
• Breaking Through Concrete: Building an urban farm revival by David Hanson (2012)
• White Truffles in Winter by N. M. Kilby (2011, a wonderful novel about Escoffier)
• Blue Trout and Black Truffles: The peregrinations of an epicure by Joseph Wechsberg (2005)
•  The Gourmet’s Guide to London (1914) by Nathaniel Newnham-Davis (reprinted 2008)
• Escoffier: The king of chefs by Kenneth James (2003)
• Don’t Try This at Home: Culinary catastrophes from the world’s greatest chefs, Kimberly Witherspoon and Andrew Friedman, Eds. (2005)