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Siren Feasts: A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece

Siren Feasts: A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece...

Author: Andrew Dalby
ISBN: 9781138140424
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Food in the Gilded Age: What Ordinary Americans Ate

Food in the Gilded Age: What Ordinary Americans Ate...

Author: Robert Dirks
ISBN: 9781442245136
Format: Hardback
$109.00

The Gilded Age is renowned for the excesses of the robber barons and tycoons. The lavishness of their tables impressed...  Read More >>

Grain of Truth: The Real Case for and Against Wheat and Gluten

Grain of Truth: The Real Case for and Against Wheat...

Author: Stephen Yafa ,  Dana Hickox
ISBN: 9781469003917
Format: Audio
$92.40

A Pollan-esque look at the truth about wheat: meal or menace? No topic in nutrition is more controversial than wheat....  Read More >>

Crucial Agricultural Policy: Analysis Of Key Threats To Food Security

Crucial Agricultural Policy: Analysis Of Key Threats...

Author: Ray Trewin (Australian Nat'l Univ, Australia)
ISBN: 9789814689595
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Following recent price spikes, food policy will continue to be of crucial concern to developing countries for the...  Read More >>

Following Fish: One Man's Journey Into the Food and Culture of the Indian Coast

Following Fish: One Man's Journey Into the Food and...

Author: Samanth Subramanian ,  Samanth Subramanian
ISBN: 9781250069733
Format: Hardback
$68.61

Originally published: New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2010.  Read More >>

The Farm on the Roof: What Brooklyn Grange Taught Us About Entrepreneurship, Community, and Growing a Sustainable Business

The Farm on the Roof: What Brooklyn Grange Taught Us...

Author: Anastasia Cole Plakias
ISBN: 9781592409488
Format: Hardback
$55.00

In their effort to build the world's first and largest commercial green rooftop farm, the founders of Brooklyn Grange...  Read More >>

Food, Control, and Resistance: Rations and Indigenous Peoples in the United States  and South Australia

Food, Control, and Resistance: Rations and Indigenous...

Author: Tamara Levi ,  Walter R. Echo-Hawk
ISBN: 9780896729643
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Uses four case studies to examine food rationing policies, practices, and results in the United States and South...  Read More >>

At the Table: Food and Family around the World

At the Table: Food and Family around the World

Author: Ken Albala (University of the Pacific, USA) ,  Ken Albala
ISBN: 9781610697378
Format: Hardback
$148.00

What's for dinner? Not just in America, but around the world? And how is it cooked, what's the historical significance...  Read More >>

Food, Control, and Resistance: Rations and Indigenous Peoples in the United States and South Australia

Food, Control, and Resistance: Rations and Indigenous...

Author: Tamara Levi ,  Walter R. Echo-Hawk
ISBN: 9780896729636
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Uses four case studies to examine food rationing policies, practices, and results in the United States and South...  Read More >>

La Nobilta Di Dante

La Nobilta Di Dante

Author: Umberto Carpi
ISBN: 9788883047534
Format: Paperback
$261.36

Premessa Cap. I. Il fiorino e la nobilta 1. A proposito di Paradiso XVI - 2. La rivelazione della nobilta - 3. La...  Read More >>

New Orleans: A Food Biography

New Orleans: A Food Biography

Author: Elizabeth M. Williams ,  Ken Albala
ISBN: 9781442269620
Format: Paperback
$54.99

New Orleans’ celebrated status derives in large measure from its incredibly rich food culture, based mainly on Creole...  Read More >>

Food and Drink in Ireland

Food and Drink in Ireland

Author: Elizabeth Fitzpatrick ,  James Kelly
ISBN: 9781908996848
Format: Paperback
$132.00

This multi-disciplinary collection of fourteen essays explores the collection, cultivation, consumption and culture...  Read More >>

Political Dynamics of Transnational Agrarian Movements

Political Dynamics of Transnational Agrarian Movements...

Author: Saturnino M. Borras Jr. ,  Marc Edelman
ISBN: 9781552668177
Format: Paperback
$31.95

In Political Dynamics of Transnational Agrarian Movements, Marc Edelman and Saturnino M. Borras Jr. offer a state-of-the-art...  Read More >>

The Anthropology of Obesity in the United States

The Anthropology of Obesity in the United States

Author: Anna Bellisari
ISBN: 9781138927858
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Melon: A Global History

Melon: A Global History

Author: Sylvia Lovegren
ISBN: 9781780235844
Format: Hardback
$24.99

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Banana: A Global History

Banana: A Global History

Author: Lorna Piatti-Farnell
ISBN: 9781780235714
Format: Hardback
$27.99

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Peppers: Harvesting Methods, Antioxidant Properties & Health Effects

Peppers: Harvesting Methods, Antioxidant Properties...

Author: Beatrice Dawson
ISBN: 9781634848398
Format: Hardback
$367.40

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I Eat, Therefore I Think: Food and Philosophy

I Eat, Therefore I Think: Food and Philosophy

Author: Raymond D. Boisvert
ISBN: 9781611477122
Format: Paperback
$113.00

I Eat, Therefore I Think: Food and Philosophy radically rethinks the nature of key philosophical concerns by approaching...  Read More >>

Meathooked: The History and Science of Our 2.5-Million-Year Obsession with Meat

Meathooked: The History and Science of Our 2.5-Million-Year...

Author: Marta Zaraska ,  Emily Durante
ISBN: 9781799979951
Format: Audio
$44.85

The strange, disquieting, and sometimes delicious story of humanity's love affair with meat  Read More >>

Meathooked: The History and Science of Our 2.5-Million-Year Obsession with Meat

Meathooked: The History and Science of Our 2.5-Million-Year...

Author: Marta Zaraska ,  Emily Durante
ISBN: 9781799979944
Format: Audio
$44.85

The strange, disquieting, and sometimes delicious story of humanity's love affair with meat  Read More >>

Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?: The Epic Saga of the Bird That Powers Civilization

Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?: The Epic Saga...

Author: Andrew Lawler
ISBN: 9781476729909
Format: Paperback
$50.13

Originally published in hardcover in 2014 by Atria Books.  Read More >>

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