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• Ken loves cooking from Sheryl Crow’s If It Makes You Healthy: More Than 100 Delicious Recipes Inspired by the Seasons.

• Director of Technology Chuq Yang makes dinner almost nightly from Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything, Completely Revised 10th Anniversary Edition: 2,000 Simple Recipes for Great Food.

• Other favorites from our office chefs? Myra Goodman’s The Earthbound Cook: 250 Recipes for Delicious Food and a Healthy Planet and Laurie David’s The Family Dinner: Great Ways to Connect with Your Kids, One Meal at a Time.

Green living:

• When our Social Media Manager Lisa Frack is getting ready for a special occasion, she turns to Corey Colwell-Lipson’s Celebrate Green for fun and sustainable ideas.

• With the love of good food and a good story in mind, Chief of Staff Heather White recommends Thomas McNamee’s Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, the biography of Alice Waters.

• Ken enjoyed reading Dr. Andrew Weil’s latest, Spontaneous Happiness.

• As EWG’s Senior Vice President of Research and director of our Skin Deep Cosmetics Database, I recommend Stacy Malkan’s Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry for anyone who wants to know more about the safe cosmetics movement.

• Director of our California office and a Senior Scientist, Renee Sharp can’t get enough of the science behind Elizabeth Grossman’s Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry.

• Editor-in-chief Elaine Shannon found Carol Deppe’s The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times to be a fascinating read by an expert gardener and scientist.

• As a mom trying to raise her kids sustainably, Foundation Coordinator Nicole Oliver turns to Peggy O’Mara’s Natural Family Living: The Mothering Magazine Guide to Parenting.

Healthy eating and food policy:

• For an eye-opening look at the food industry and the healthy eating movement, Ken always recommends Marion Nestle’s Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health.

• Vice President for Media Relations Alex Formuzis loves Michael Pollan’s newly illustrated Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual.

• Alan Bjerga’s Endless Appetites: How the Commodities Casino Creates Hunger and Unrest got glowing reviews from both Press Secretary Sara Sciammacco and Senior Communications and Policy Advisor Don Carr.

• Senior Food and Agriculture Analyst Kari Hamerschlag couldn’t put down Oran Hesterman’s Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System For All.

• Senior Scientist David Andrews discovered why there was so much media attention when he read Sarah Wu’s Fed Up with Lunch: The School Lunch Project: How One Anonymous Teacher Revealed the Truth About School Lunches – And How We Can Change Them!

• Legal Fellow Etan Yeshua – a true tomato lover – recommends Barry Estabrook’sTomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit.

• With so much media attention on childhood nutrition, Director of Development Jocelyn Lyle picked up Susan Levine’s School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America’s Favorite Welfare Program.