
Winner
Veggie Smarts: A Doctor and Farmer Grows and Savors Eight Families of Vegetables
Michael T. Compton
Veggie Smarts inspires people to get smart about vegetables, so that meals will be more delicious and health will be optimized. It helps the reader eat vegetables smartly, while cultivating curiosity about how they are grown on farms and can be grown at home. Beyond nutrition advice and ample quirky scientific facts about many of our veggies (like why some people are genetically prone to despise broccoli and kale, how onions make us cry, why beans make us fart, and how beets can make our pee pink), Veggie Smarts is a doctor's personal account of leaving behind the big city for an old stone house and a fertile field in the Hudson Valley. It's about his journey in building a small-scale, organic-certified vegetable farm. It elevates readers' understanding of how nearly all of our veggies come from just eight families of flowering plants, from among more than 400: the Brassicas, the Alliums, the Legumes, the Chenopods, the Aster Greens, the Umbellifers, the Cucurbits, and the Nightshades.
Finalist
Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety: How to Eat Your Way to Better Mental Health with Nutritional Psychiatry Techniques
Drew Ramsey MD
A revolutionary prescription for healing depression and anxiety and optimizing brain health through the foods we eat, including a six-week plan to help you get started eating for better mental health. Depression and anxiety disorders are rising, affecting more than fifty-eight million people in the United States alone. Many rely on therapy and medications to alleviate symptoms, but often this is not enough. The latest scientific advances in neuroscience and nutrition, along with our understanding of the mind-gut connection, have proven that how and what we eat greatly affects how we feel—physically, cognitively, and emotionally.






















