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Alumni and faculty members who would like to have their books considered for this listing should contact Stacey Himmelberger, editor of Hamilton magazine. This list, which dates back to 2018, is updated periodically with books appearing alphabetically on the date of entry.
Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything — and Endangered the World by Jocelyn C. (Craugh) Zuckerman ’87
October 1, 2021
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(New York and London: The New Press, 2021).
The author spent years traveling the globe — from Liberia to Indonesia, India to Brazil — reporting on the human and environmental impacts of the growing palm oil industry. Her book blends history, science, politics, and food as seen through the people whose lives have been upended by this hidden ingredient. As Publishers Weekly noted: “Vividly describing people and places damaged by the palm oil industry, Zuckerman establishes a through line connecting 19th-century imperialism to the exploitative practices of today’s multinational corporations. This deeply reported account sounds the alarm loud and clear.” The author, a former deputy editor of Gourmet, is the recipient of a James Beard Journalism Award for Feature Writing.
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