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What to eat now : the indispensable guide to good food, how to find it, and why it matters / Marion Nestle.

Nestle, Marion, (author.).

Summary:

What to Eat Now is a clear-eyed, no-nonsense guide to the most important food questions on our plate today. How do we make informed dietary choices for ourselves, our families, and our communities? In the twenty years since Marion Nestle's groundbreaking What to Eat first came out, food has undergone a radical change. The emergence of techno foods, the growth of corporate organics, and a surge of interest in food-delivery services reignited by the pandemic are just a few of the things that have altered how we think about how we eat. The typical American supermarket carries more than thirty thousand products. How do you choose? Misinformation, disinformation, and corporate misdirection play a crucial and hard-to-see role in how the average shopper thinks about and chooses food. In an aisle-by-aisle guide, Nestle, America's preeminent nutritionist and a founding figure in American food studies, takes us through the American supermarket. With persistence, wit, and common sense, she establishes the basics of good nutrition, food safety, and ethical and sustainable eating, and gives readers a close-up look at the web of interests--from supermarket slotting policies to multinational food corporations to lobbying groups--that food has to navigate before it gets to your shopping basket. Above all else, What to Eat Now is a defense of real food and of the value of eating deliciously, mindfully, and responsibly.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780374608699
  • ISBN: 0374608695
  • Physical Description: ix, 703 pages : illustrations, charts ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : North Point Press, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"An earlier version of this book was originally published, in different form, in 2006 by North Point Press, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, as What to Eat."--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 591-672) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction -- The basics -- The beverage aisles -- The produce section -- The meat section -- The fish counter -- The dairy section -- The egg section -- The center aisles: lightly processed -- The center aisles: processed culinary ingredients -- The center aisles: ultra-processed -- The special sections: kids and pets -- The special sections: evolving trends -- Conclusion: taking action.
Subject:
Nutrition > Popular works.
Diet > Popular works.
Health > Popular works.
Genre:
Informational works.

Available copies

  • 29 of 34 copies available at NC Cardinal.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library. (Show)

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Marion Library 613.2 NES (Text) 37810435637813 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Canton Library 613.2 Nestle (Text) 33115007730023 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Cleveland County Main Library 613.2 NES (Text) 22281500162751 Adult Nonfiction Checked out 08/10/2026
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East Regional Library 613.2 NES (Text) 31781069626347 Adult Nonfiction Available -
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Goldsboro Library 613.2 NES (Text) 900005000308052 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Harnett County Main Library 613.2 Nes (Text) 33630005483891 Adult Nonfiction Available -
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