The Jew & The Carrot is a project of Hazon - an organization dedicated to creating a healthier and more sustainable Jewish community as a step towards a healthier and more sustainable world for all. The books and films listed below have inspired us and changed the way we thought about - and ate in - the world.  We now heartily and happily recommend them all to you!

Books: Food Choices

The Botany of Desire - Michael Pollan
Choice Cuts -Mark Kurlansky
Diet for a Dead Planet - Christopher D. Cook
Diet for a New America - John Robbins
Easy Composters You Can Build - Nick Noyes
Fast Food Nation -Eric Schlosser
Food Politics - Marion Nestle
Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen -Anna Lappe and Bryant Terry
Hope’s Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet- Frances Moore Lappe and Anna Lappe
Living Green: A Practical Guide to Simple Sustainability - Greg Horn
My Year of Meats - Ruth Ozeki
The Great American Detox Diet -Alex Jameison
The Omnivore’s Dilemma - Michael Pollan
The Sustainability Revolution -Andres R. Edwards and David W. Orr
The Unsettling of America - Wendell Berry
The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter - Peter Singer and Jim Mason
Twinkie, Deconstructed - Steve Ettlinger

Books: Food and Spirituality

Food and Judaism - Ed. Leonard Greenspoon, Ronald SImkins, Gerald Shapiro
If the Buddha Came to Dinner - Hale Sofia Schatz
Judaism and Vegetarianism - Dr. Richard Schwartz
World Peace Diet - Will Tuttle

Books: Noshing, Recipes, and Jewish Culture

Jewish Cooking in America - Joan Nathan
Miriam’s Kitchen - Elizabeth Erlich
The Book of Jewish Food - Claudia Roden
The Wonders of America - Jenna Weismann Joselit
The Go Green East Harlem Cookbook - Scott Stringer
Jewish Cooking in America - Joan Nathan
Jewish Cooking For All Seasons - Laura Frankel
The New Moosewood Cookbook - Mollie Katzen
Olive Trees and Honey - Gil Marks
Nourishing Traditions - Sally Fallon
Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone - Deborah Madison
Veganomicon: - Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romano

Movies

An Inconvenient Truth
Beyond Organic
Broken Limbs: Apples, Agriculture, and the New American Farmer
Fast Food Nation: The Movie
The Meatrix
The Real Dirt on Farmer John
Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to TownThe Future of Food
We Feed the World