Read The Omnivore's Dilemma [1] already — and want more? Then check out these hot new foodie books to take you a step further in your enviro-culinary adventures:

For the Gmail crowd: Food 2.0: Secrets from the Chef Who Fed Google [2] by Charlie Ayers. Former Google chef Ayers says "we can all eat delicious, clean, fast cuisine that is good for us, good for the community, and good for the Earth." We can make these foods without spending a lot of time too, he asserts — then proves it in this colorful book of yummy recipes. From must-have kitchen tools to the best ways to make sure you eat your raw greens, Food 2.0 is filled with practical tips and tricks for both the devoted cook and the grab-n-go eater.

For adventure travelers: The Jungle Effect [3] by Daphne Miller. Can the food you eat prevent you from diabetes, depression, heart disease, and other increasingly common ailments affecting Americans? Quite possibly. Miller travels to the “cold spots” — places with a low incidence of a certain disease — all over the world to figure out what in that region’s diet serves to protect its residents from common ailments in the U.S. -— then helps her patients suffering from those ailments adopt these new diets. The book provides instructions — organized into basic, intermediate, and advanced levels — for mimicking the diet of each cold spot. Plus, lots of recipes are included in the back!

For sushi lovers: Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood [4] by Taras Grescoe. Read this book to find out how to enjoy your pescatarian diet without contributing to environmental woes. Afterward, you'll be able to make better choices and eat guilt-free. In a Salon interview [5], Grescoe says the biggest message to take away from the book is that "You should probably stay away from fish at the top end of the oceanic food chain right now... they're actually a lot of the riskiest ones in terms of having things like mercury, and in the case of salmon, persistent organic [5] pollutants."