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Row by Row: Talking with Kentucky Gardeners

Row by Row: Talking with Kentucky Gardeners

Author: Katherine J. Black
ISBN: 9780804011617
Format: Hardback
$131.87

For two and a half years, Katherine J. Black crisscrossed Kentucky, interviewing home vegetable gardeners from a...  Read More >>

Building a Better Tomato: The Quest to Perfect """"the Scandalous Fruit

Building a Better Tomato: The Quest to Perfect """"the...

Author: Jeff Klinkenberg
ISBN: 9781942852063
Format: Paperback
$11.00

In the search for a superior alternative to bland and mealy grocery-store tomatoes, horticultural scientist Harry...  Read More >>

Eating in the Side Room: Food, Archaeology, and African American Identity

Eating in the Side Room: Food, Archaeology, and African...

Author: Mark S. Warner
ISBN: 9780813061115
Format: Hardback
$133.10

Warner uses the archaeological data on food remains recovered from excavations in Annapolis, Maryland, as the point...  Read More >>

Chillies and Porridge: Writing Food

Chillies and Porridge: Writing Food

Author: Mita Kapur
ISBN: 9789351772842
Format: Paperback
$60.69

Essential. Evocative. Addictive. The experience of food can mean many things to many people. Whether it's carrying...  Read More >>

Cities and Agriculture: Developing Resilient Urban Food Systems

Cities and Agriculture: Developing Resilient Urban Food...

Author: Henk de Zeeuw ,  Pay Drechsel (International Water Management Institute, Sri Lanka)
ISBN: 9781138860599
Format: Paperback
$96.99

This volume presents experience and evidence based ""state of the art"" chapters on the key dimensions and challenges...  Read More >>

The Cowley Road Cookbook: Culinary Tales and Recipes from Oxford's Most Eclectic Street

The Cowley Road Cookbook: Culinary Tales and Recipes...

Author: Martin Stott
ISBN: 9781909930322
Format: Paperback
$38.79

Cookbook and cultural hisory of the Cowledy Road in Oxford.  Read More >>

Gender, Class and Food: Families, Bodies and Health

Gender, Class and Food: Families, Bodies and Health...

Author: Julie M. Parsons
ISBN: 9781137476401
Format: Hardback
$145.17

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The Life Negroni

The Life Negroni

Author: Nargess Banks ,  Leigh Banks
ISBN: 9780993334900
Format: Hardback
$51.75

Few cocktails have acquired the cult status of the Negroni thanks to its stylish Italian associations, seductive...  Read More >>

The Thousand Dollar Dinner: America's First Great Cookery Challenge

The Thousand Dollar Dinner: America's First Great Cookery...

Author: Becky Libourel Diamond
ISBN: 9781594162312
Format: Hardback
$68.64

Describes in detail a lavish seventeen-course meal that launched a new age in American dining.  Read More >>

Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace

Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace...

Author: Vandana Shiva
ISBN: 9781623170417
Format: Paperback
$42.11

Originally published: Cambridge, Mass.: South End Press, c2005.  Read More >>

Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture

Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food...

Author: Matt Goulding ,  Nathan Thornburgh
ISBN: 9780062394033
Format: Hardback
$99.00

Part travel guide, part cultural celebration, Rice, Noodle, Fish invites readers to explore an entire country through...  Read More >>

Chesapeake Oysters: The Bay's Foundation and Future

Chesapeake Oysters: The Bay's Foundation and Future...

Author: Kate Livie
ISBN: 9781540212696
Format: Hardback
$95.01

Crassostrea virginica, the eastern oyster. These humble bivalves are the living bones of the Chesapeake and the...  Read More >>

Cities and Agriculture: Developing Resilient Urban Food Systems

Cities and Agriculture: Developing Resilient Urban Food...

Author: Henk de Zeeuw ,  Pay Drechsel (International Water Management Institute, Sri Lanka)
ISBN: 9781138860582
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume presents experience and evidence based ""state of the art"" chapters on the key dimensions and challenges...  Read More >>

Agricultural Water Institutions in East Africa

Agricultural Water Institutions in East Africa

Author: Atakilte Beyene
ISBN: 9789171067777
Format: Paperback
$20.70

Climate change is causing growing variability and uncertainty in rainfall in Africa. Since the continent's food...  Read More >>

The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food

The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food

Author: Ted Genoways
ISBN: 9780062288769
Format: Paperback
$55.41

A searching expose in the tradition of Upton Sinclair, Rachel Carson, and Eric Schlosser, The Chain is a mesmerizing...  Read More >>

From Farm to Canal Street: Chinatown's Alternative Food Network in the Global Marketplace

From Farm to Canal Street: Chinatown's Alternative Food...

Author: Valerie Imbruce
ISBN: 9780801456862
Format: Paperback
$44.75

In From Farm to Canal Street, Valerie Imbruce tells the story of how Chinatown's food network operates amid-and...  Read More >>

From Farm to Canal Street: Chinatown's Alternative Food Network in the Global Marketplace

From Farm to Canal Street: Chinatown's Alternative Food...

Author: Valerie Imbruce
ISBN: 9780801454042
Format: Hardback
$343.20

In From Farm to Canal Street, Valerie Imbruce tells the story of how Chinatown's food network operates amid-and...  Read More >>

Ethnic American Food Today: A Cultural Encyclopedia

Ethnic American Food Today: A Cultural Encyclopedia...

Author: Lucy M. Long, PhD, Director, Center for Food and Culture, Bowling Green, OH
ISBN: 9781442227309
Format: Hardback
$294.95

Ethnic American Food Today is the first encyclopedia to illuminate the variety and complexity of ethnic food cultures...  Read More >>

Eating Dangerously: Why the Government Can't Keep Your Food Safe ... and How You Can

Eating Dangerously: Why the Government Can't Keep Your...

Author: Michael Booth ,  Jennifer Brown
ISBN: 9781442248663
Format: Paperback
$34.99

When people get sick from their food, headlines rage. More and more, people are getting sick from food that is supposedly...  Read More >>

Feederism: Eating, Weight Gain, and Sexual Pleasure

Feederism: Eating, Weight Gain, and Sexual Pleasure...

Author: Kathy Charles ,  Michael Palkowski
ISBN: 9781137470454
Format: Hardback
$211.17

This book explores the controversial and misunderstood world of sexualised weight gain known as feederism. Conversations...  Read More >>

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