Fleming Community Library

The Lunch Lab experience encourages families to make smarter food choices while having fun. Each topic includes three segments: Webisode; Freezer Burn Music Video; and a Lunch Lab Live!; all related to the Fizzy's Lunch Lab online animated series.

Takes a comprehensive look at modern agriculture and discusses where, why, and how it evolved. Examines the whole process of food production and distribution, from the Neolithic Revolution and the dawn of farming to the rise of industrial agriculture and the Green Revolution.

Two CEOs are revolutionizing the way people think about food and energy around the globe.

Agriculture pioneer Cary Fowler races against time to protect the future of our food. Gene banks of the world are crumbling, crop failures are producing starvation inspired rioting, and the accelerating effects of climate change are already affecting farmers globally. Fowler's journey is just beginning: From Rome to Russia and, finally, a remote island under the Arctic Circle, Fowler's passionate and personal journey may hold the key to saving the...

Surly Squirrel and the gang are back. They are once again in Oakton, where the evil mayor has decided to build a dangerous amusement park. Surly and his ragtag group of animal friends band together to save their home, defeat the mayor, and take back the park.

Eggs are considered by many to be one of the most affordable sources of protein available. Chart the journey of the egg from henhouse to breakfast table. Take a trip to massive Iowa farms, where millions of eggs travel from the hens to the delivery trucks without ever being touched by human hands. Next experience what it's like at cage-free and pasture-raised farms, where chickens have greater freedom and more room to roam. Get a look at the world's...

Under extensive medical supervision, Spurlock subjects himself to a steady diet of McDonald's cuisine for 30 days just to see what happens. In less than a week, his ordinarily fit body and equilibrium undergo dark and ugly changes: Spurlock grows fat, his cholesterol rockets north, his organs take a beating, and he becomes subject to headaches, mood swings, symptoms of addiction, and lessened sexual energy. The gimmick is too obvious to sustain a...

A gifted chef quits his high pressure job to start over and discovers a new life and interest in cooking when he takes on a cook's job on a food truck.

Cooking is chemistry! Let's get messy in the kitchen.

Discusses the enduring appeal of soul food. Presents an overview of its history, covering its roots in Western Africa, its incarnation in the American South, and the role it plays in the health crisis in the African American community. Examines the socioeconomics of the modern American diet, and how the food industry profits from producing cheap calories while healthy options remain expensive and hard to find.