I look forward to reading two books that are coming out in the next few days:
Pandora's Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal
Here’s a blurb about it from food politics blogger Marion Nestle: “In Pandora’s Lunchbox, Melanie Warner has produced an engaging account of how today’s “food processing industrial complex” replaced real foods with the inventions of food science. Her history of how this happened and who benefits from these inventions should be enough to inspire everyone to get back into the kitchen and start cooking.”
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
About this one Nestle says, “Salt Sugar Fat is a breathtaking feat of reporting. Michael Moss was able to get executives of the world’s largest food companies to admit that they have only one job—to maximize sales and profits—and to reveal how they deliberately entice customers by stuffing their products with salt, sugar, and fat. Anyone reading this truly important book will understand why food corporations cannot be trusted to value health over profits and why all of us need to recognize and resist food marketing every time we grocery shop or vote.”

I hope my library will soon have both books!

Nestle herself is the author of a book my local library doesn’t have, Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition, and Health, Revised and Expanded Edition (California Studies in Food and Culture).

They do have a couple of other books that I have put on hold. Two are by Michael Pollan: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto and Food Rules: An Eater's Manual.
The other is a 2006 book by Nestle: What to Eat.

Maybe these will keep me busy until the library gets the new ones!

(And FYI, any Amazon credits that accrue to me because you click one of these links and make a purchase will be used to buy books on this theme for the Leavenworth High School library.)