Books like A People's Ecology by Gregory Cajete

Food Matters is a practical guide that blends Bittman’s minimalist cooking philosophy with environmental and health insights, outlining a diet built on sustainable, low‑impact food choices and a critical look at livestock production risks.

Gregory Cajete’s *Native Science* explores Indigenous concepts of reality, weaving art, myth, ceremony, astronomy, cosmology, psychology, agriculture, and healing into a holistic view of the natural world.

"While many Americans are attached to a romantic, idealized view of the human relation to nature in North America prior to European contact, anthropologist Shepard Krech III attempts to examine what characterized actual Native American beliefs and actions. Native Americans had a vast and impressive store of knowledge about the natural world but, like everyone else, couldn't always foresee the consequences of their acts and didn't always act the way they believed they should. Nor were their beliefs always perfectly adaptive to changing circumstances."--BOOK JACKET. "The Ecological Indian addresses such fascinating questions as: Were Pleistocene-era humans responsible for the extinction of large mammals like the mastodon? Did the Hohokam of Arizona destroy their society by overirrigating and ultimately oversalinating their crops? What role did Native Americans play in the near-extinctions of the deer, the beaver, and the buffalo? How did Native Americans use fire? Was the natural "Eden" that awed the first European visitors a feature of native "environmentalism" or just of very low population density?"--BOOK JACKET.

This unique book examines food's importance during the massive evolution of Europe following the Middle Ages.