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Award-winning Atlantic staff writer Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popular science that probes the hidden world of the plant kingdom, “destabilizing not just how we see the green things of the world but also our place in the hierarchy of beings, and maybe the notion of that hierarchy itself."

Translating Food Sovereignty follows Pacific Northwest activists challenging industrial food systems, advocating local, democratic control. Matthew C. Canfield shows how they navigate global governance to advance social justice, illustrating grassroots movements reshaping transnational food policy and ecological sustainability.

indigenous cookbooks
Celebrating Indigenous food as the original local cuisine, this book pairs home-tested recipes with stories from Native cooks, activists, and harvesters. It explores wild rice, fish, game, vegetables, and berries, honoring regional tribal knowledge, health, and enduring relationships to land and water.

Raised in Shawnee, Oklahoma, Loretta Barrett Oden blends Potawatomi and colonial culinary traditions into Indigenous-inspired cuisine. Corn Dance traces her journey as a pioneering Native chef, sharing recipes, stories, and cultural insights that celebrate ancestral foods and contemporary Indigenous foodways.

Featuring an expanded array of tempting recipes of indigenous ingredients and practical advice about health, fitness, and becoming involved in the burgeoning indigenous food sovereignty movement, the acclaimed Choctaw author and scholar Devon A. Mihesuah draws on the rich indigenous heritages of this continent to offer a helpful guide to a healthier life.



























