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57. Edible South - The Power of Food and the Making of American Region

I love to cook and my favorite reads are books about food history. This book deals more with modern food movements in the South, but that is a good thing. Much has been written about older food histories of the South and little about modern food customs and movements.

Two books that I read in the last two years that had a big effect on me are "The Graves are Walking: The Great Famine and Saga of the Irish People" and "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea".

The best one was the book on the Irish famine, it shows the conservative political philosophy carried to such extremes that it caused the deaths of millions of people. When you read it, you see so many parallels to today's conservative movements and what could happen when they run amok.

The book on North Korea deals with the time in the 90's when there was mass starvation in that country and how people in North Korea survived.

Both are very readable and give you insight to what happened during those times, presented in an interesting way.