RESOURCES

A very partial and subject-to-change list of sites providing more information on topics covered in Fresh.

FACT, FIGURES, PHOTOS

Safe Food Home Storage: published by the Texas Agricultural Extension Service.

The Big Chill: Prevention Magazine: on where to store your fresh food in the kitchen.

USDA Cold Storage Chart: guidelines on how long perishable foods can be refrigerated or frozen.

Food Scraps: the EPA on why they’re a problem and what to do with them.

Fruit and Vegetable Market News: USDA reports on which foods are selling where, when, and at what price.

Fresh Gallery: photographs that didn't make it into the book.

FOOD ADVOCACY

Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture: reports and data in favor of local food.

While Stocks Last: The Live Reef Food Fish Trade: Comprehensive report on the ecological and social costs of the trade in extremely fresh fish.

POPULAR MEDIA, INCLUDING BLOGS

The “Best Before” Challenge: a British man eats expired food, and lives to tell the tale.

BBC Food Matters: Food Miles what they are, why it’s complicated.

Wasted Food: blog and anti-waste manifesto.

Meatpaper: A journal of meat culture, not recipes.

Gherkin and Tomatoes: food history blog.

Rachel Laudan: food history and politics.

Civil Eats: blog promoting socially just food systems.

HISTORY

Home Economics Archive: Cornell University’s electronic collection of key home economics books and articles published between 1850 and 1950.

Project Gutenberg Culinary Texts: digitized versions of old cookbooks, home economics texts.

La Société Régionale d'Horticulture de Montreuil: History and photographs of the stenciled fruit featured in Fresh (In French).

“Big Orange:” California Historical Society on-line exhibit of orange crate labels.