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==1: JAN 15==

*Introduction to the Course

==2: JAN 17==

:* View: [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/ Food, Inc.] &  (Recommended) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2381335/?ref_=nv_sr_1 Fed Up]

::*Focus: These mainstream and well-regarded documentaries will quickly put a critique of the US Food System on the table.  Check movie availability. Take some notes on: 1.  Facts that you are surprised by, think important, or are suspicious of.;  2. Questions raised by the movie; 3. Claims or thesis that the movie's documentary evidence seems to support.  Note segments or narratives.  Try to note some names.

:*Sonnenbergs, C 1, "What is the Microbiota and Why Should I Care?"

:*Recommended: View one of these gut movies:
::*[https://login.proxy.foley.gonzaga.edu/login?url=http://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=16149&xtid=94805 Medical Revolution The Gut Microbiome]
::*[https://www.amazon.com/Gut-Our-Second-Brain/dp/B01GKTCP4I The Gut: Our Second Brain]  -- Please do try to watch this one.  It has some remarkable graphics and the science reporting is very good as well.

==3: JAN 22==

:*Sonnenbergs, C 5, "Trillions of Mouths to Feed" (111-136)
:*Sonnenbergs, C 7, "Eat Sh*t and Live" (163-185)

:*Nestle, "Introduction: The Food Industry and 'Eat More,' from ''Food Politics''", 2013. (1-30).
:*'''Student Writing: Food biographies'''

==4: JAN 24==

:*Gastropod episode, "The End of the Calorie"

:*Focus: The Gastropod episode will give you alot of information about the way the "calorie" came about as a unit of measurement and the complexity of measuring food energy.   

:*Moss, Michael. Chapter 4, "Is it Cereal or Candy," Salt Sugar Fat. (pp. 68-93)

==5: JAN 29==

:*Nix, Stacy. Chapter 2: "Carbohydrates" ''Williams' Basic Nutrition and Diet Therapy''  (pp. 13-30).
:*Come to class with your Carb worksheet filled out.

==6: JAN 31==

:*Moss, Michael. Chapter 8, "Liquid Gold," (pp. 161-181)
:*Nestle, Marion. Chapter 1: From "Eat More" to "Eat Less" 1900-1990 (pp. 31-50).

:*'''Assignment Rubric and Demo for Writing Workshop'''

==7: FEB 5==

:*Nix, Stacy. Chapter 3: Fats ''Williams' Basic Nutrition and Diet Therapy'' (pp. 31-46)

:*'''*Writing Workshop with previous student writing'''

==8: FEB 7==

:*Pollan, Michael. Part 2: The Western Diet (pp. 83-136)
:*Nestle, Marion. Chapter 2, Politics Versus Science -- opposing the food pyramind, 1991-1992 (pp. 51-66).

==9: FEB 12==

:*Nix, Stacy. Chapter 4: "Proteins" Williams' Basic Nutrition and Diet Therapy (pp. 47-63).

:*Begin SW1

==10: FEB 14==

:*Barber, Dan. Introduction ''The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food,'' (1-22).
:*US Dietary Guidelines
:*The Lancet, Carcinogenicity of consumption of red and processed meat 
:*Acad of Pediatrics on Vegetarian and Vegan Diets.

==11: FEB 19==

:*Montanari, Massimo. Food is Culture, (1-26). 

:*'''SW1 due'''

:*Nix, Stacy. Chapter 4: "Vitamins" Williams' Basic Nutrition and Diet Therapy (pp. 94-126).
:*Vitamins - quiz (questions ahead of time)

==12: FEB 21==

:*Jonathan Silvertown, ''Dinner with Darwin'', Chapters 1-5.

==13: FEB 26==

:*''Dinner with Darwin'', C5-8

==14: FEB 28==

:*Rachel Lauden, ''Cusine and Empire'' Introduction and Chapter 1, "Mastering Grain Cookery, 20,000 to 300 bce", p. 1-55

==15: MAR 5==

:*'''Ethics Day 1''' 
:*Chamowitz, ''What a Plant Knows''. Chapter 1, "What a Plant Sees" 
:*Chamowitz, ''What a Plant Knows''. Chapter 5, "How a Plant Knows Where It Is" 
:*Lecture: Summary of UNFAO report and some criticisms
:*Alfino, "Report of the Mission to Colony B"

==16: MAR 7==

:*'''Ethics Day 2''' 
:*Fischer, Bob, "Arguments for Consuming Animal Products" (241-266)

==17: MAR 19==

:*'''Bread Day'''
:*Barber, Dan. Chapter 30: "Bread" (pp. 382-409)

:*'''Diet Review and Revision Exercise (optional) Phase 1 ends. Phase 2 begins - finish by April 18'''

==18: MAR 21==

:*Andrews, Geoff. Chapter 2: "The Critique of 'Fast Life'" ''The Slow Food Story'' (pp. 29-47).

==19: APR 26==

:*Montgomery, David. Chapter 1: " ''Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations''(pp. 9-25);

:*Montgomery, David. Chapter 2: "Skin of the Earth" ''Dirt''(pp. 9-25);

==20: APR 28==

:*Gopnik, Adam, "Who Made the Restaurant?" from The Table Comes First, 2012, (pp. 13-57).
:*Diamond, Jerome. "Agriculture's Mixed Blessings" (180-191)

==21: APR 2==

:*Montgomery, David. Chapter 3: "Rivers of Life" (pp. 27-47)
:*Montgomery, David. Chapter 4: "Graveyards of Civilizations" (pp. 49-81)

==22: APR 4==

:*Soler, Jean. "The Semiotics of Food in the Bible" (55-66)
::*Focus:  Soler take us deeper into both the dietary regimes of the Judeo-Christian tradition, as well as some philosophical considerations that might go into choosing a diet based on "trophic level". 

==23: APR 9==

:*Montgomery, David. Chapter 7: 
:*Montgomery, David. Chapter 8: "Dirty Business" (pp. 179-215);

==24: APR 11==

:*Wallace, Cuisine of Contact (1-31)

==25: APR 16==

:*Montgomery, David. Chapter 10: "Life Span of Civilizations" (pp. 233-246)

==26: APR 18==

:*Montgomery, "Green Manure" (90-114)
:*Lecture: Some Agrarianism. Fairlie.
:*Pinker, "Sustenance" (68-78)

==27: APR 23==

:*Barber, Dan. Chapter 12: "Land" (pp. 158-173)
:*Estabrook, Barry.  "Hogonomics" (142-149)
:'''*SW3 due'''

==28: MAY 5==
:'''*Ethics Day 3'''
:*McPherson, Tristram. "The Ethical Basis for Veganism"