Sally OGrady's List: Books

Paul Roberts writes in “The End of Food” (Houghton Mifflin; $26), “

All of these authors agree that the entire system of Western food production is  in need of radical change, right down to the spinach. Roberts opens with a  description of E.-coli-infected spinach from California, which killed three  people in 2006 and sickened two hundred others. The E. coli was traced to the  guts of a wild boar that may have tracked the bug in from a nearby cattle ranch.