Michael Pollan

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1. Michael Pollan

   Author of The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World, Second Nature, A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder

2. Barbara Kingsolver

   Author of High Tide in Tucson, Small Wonder, The Best American Short Stories 2001
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3. Mark Kurlansky

   Author of Salt: A World History, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food--Before the National Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When the Nation's Food Was Seasonal

4. Marion Nestle

   Author of What to Eat, Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (California Studies in Food and Culture, 3)
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5. Mary Roach

   Author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, Packing for Mars

6. Jared Diamond

   Author of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

7. Ruth Reichl

   Author of Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise, Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table

8. Simon Winchester

   Author of The Professor and the Madman, Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883, The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology

9. Eric Schlosser

   Author of Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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10. Barbara Ehrenreich

    Author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

11. Sarah Vowell

    Author of Assassination Vacation, The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Take the Cannoli

12. Wendell Berry

    Author of The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture, What Are People For?, The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays

13. Dave Eggers

    Author of Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005

14. Mark Bittman

    Author of Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes
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15. Bill Buford

    Author of Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tus

16. Anthony Bourdain

    Author of Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

17. Alan Weisman

    Author of The World Without Us

18. Rachel Carson

    Author of Silent Spring

19. Diane Ackerman

    Author of A Natural History of the Senses, Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden
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20. Annie Dillard

    Author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, The Writing Life, The Living