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Truffle: A Global History

Truffle: A Global History

Author: Zachary Nowak
ISBN: 9781780234366
Format: Hardback
$27.99

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Tequila: A Global History

Tequila: A Global History

Author: Ian Williams
ISBN: 9781780234359
Format: Hardback
$27.99

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Coal Dust on Your Feet: The Rise, Decline, and Restoration of an Anthracite Mining Town

Coal Dust on Your Feet: The Rise, Decline, and Restoration...

Author: Janet MacGaffey
ISBN: 9781611486872
Format: Paperback
$130.00

Coal Dust on Your Feet is a historical ethnography covering a century and a half, looking at the lives and struggles...  Read More >>

Eating Korean in America: Gastronomic Ethnography of Authenticity

Eating Korean in America: Gastronomic Ethnography of...

Author: Sonia Ryang
ISBN: 9780824839352
Format: Hardback
$102.96

Can food be both national and global at the same time? What happens when a food with a national identity travels...  Read More >>

From King Cane to the Last Sugar Mill: Agricultural Technology and the Making of Hawai‘i’s Premier Crop

From King Cane to the Last Sugar Mill: Agricultural...

Author: C. Allan Jones ,  Robert V. Osgood
ISBN: 9780824840006
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Focuses on the technological and scientific advances that allowed Hawai‘i’s sugar industry to become a world leader...  Read More >>

Tea in China: A Religious and Cultural History

Tea in China: A Religious and Cultural History

Author: James A. Benn
ISBN: 9780824839642
Format: Paperback
$73.92

Explores the contours of religious and cultural transformation in traditional China from the point of view of an...  Read More >>

Collards: A Southern Tradition from Seed to Table

Collards: A Southern Tradition from Seed to Table

Author: Edward H. Davis ,  John T. Morgan
ISBN: 9780817318345
Format: Hardback
$92.27

The definitive survey of this iconic southern food, Collards recounts the surprising story of where collards originated,...  Read More >>

A History of Burley Tobacco in East Tennessee & Western North Carolina

A History of Burley Tobacco in East Tennessee & Western...

Author: Billy Yeargin ,  Christopher Bickers
ISBN: 9781626199606
Format: Paperback
$58.05

Burley tobacco revolutionized the industry in east Tennessee and western North Carolina. What started from two farmers...  Read More >>

A History of Burley Tobacco in East Tennessee & Western North Carolina

A History of Burley Tobacco in East Tennessee & Western...

Author: Billy Yeargin ,  Christopher Bickers
ISBN: 9781540213754
Format: Hardback
$84.45

Burley tobacco revolutionized the industry in east Tennessee and western North Carolina. What started from two farmers...  Read More >>

Global Food Security Governance: Civil society engagement in the reformed Committee on World Food Security

Global Food Security Governance: Civil society engagement...

Author: Jessica Duncan (Wageningen University, Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781138802520
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Through an examination of the reformed Committee on World Food Security, this book provides new, empirically-informed...  Read More >>

Medieval Tastes: Food, Cooking, and the Table

Medieval Tastes: Food, Cooking, and the Table

Author: Massimo Montanari ,  Beth Archer Brombert
ISBN: 9780231167864
Format: Hardback
$69.95

Italy’s best-known food historian travels back to the birth of “modern” cuisine and reveals the remarkable links...  Read More >>

Coffee: The Epic of a Commodity

Coffee: The Epic of a Commodity

Author: H. E. Jacob
ISBN: 9781632202963
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Referred to as a ""documentary novel"" back during its inception, H.E. Jacobs pioneered the concept of creative...  Read More >>

A Day at the Hawai'i Plantation Museum

A Day at the Hawai'i Plantation Museum

Author: Second Graders of Mrs C Inouye
ISBN: 9780692399873
Format: Paperback
$36.96

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The Dorito Effect

The Dorito Effect

Author: Mark Schatzker ,  Chris Patton
ISBN: 9798228173552
Format: Audio
$110.85

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The Dorito Effect

The Dorito Effect

Author: Mark Schatzker ,  Chris Patton
ISBN: 9798228173538
Format: Audio
$110.85

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Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat

Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat

Author: Philip Lymbery
ISBN: 9781408846346
Format: Paperback
$19.99

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Plough Quarterly No. 4: Earth

Plough Quarterly No. 4: Earth

Author: Bill McKibben ,  Eugene H. Peterson
ISBN: 9780874866681
Format: Paperback
$14.99

This issue of Plough Quarterly explores our relationship with the natural world. Hear from leading scientists, farmers,...  Read More >>

Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland

Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland

Author: Cynthia Clampitt
ISBN: 9780252038914
Format: Hardback
$271.00

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The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food

The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food

Author: Dan Barber
ISBN: 9780143127154
Format: Paperback
$50.16

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Work Horse Handbook

Work Horse Handbook

Author: Lynn R Miller
ISBN: 9781885210166
Format: Paperback
$118.80

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The Globalisation of Chinese Food

The Globalisation of Chinese Food

Author: Sidney Cheung ,  David Y. H. Wu
ISBN: 9781138863316
Format: Paperback
$96.99

By considering the practice of globalisation, these essays describe changes, variations and innovations to Chinese...  Read More >>

The Politics of Food in Modern Morocco

The Politics of Food in Modern Morocco

Author: Stacy E. Holden
ISBN: 9780813060903
Format: Paperback
$45.10

Offers an interpretation of Moroccan history by demonstrating the ways in which the French policies regarding food...  Read More >>

Agriculture and the Confederacy: Policy, Productivity, and Power in the Civil War South

Agriculture and the Confederacy: Policy, Productivity,...

Author: R. Douglas Hurt
ISBN: 9781469620008
Format: Paperback
$132.00

In this comprehensive history, R. Douglas Hurt traces the decline and fall of agriculture in the Confederate States...  Read More >>

Dispossession: Discrimination Against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights

Dispossession: Discrimination Against African American...

Author: Pete Daniel
ISBN: 9781469622071
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681,790 to just 45,594 - a drop of 93%....  Read More >>

Tea in China: A Religious and Cultural History

Tea in China: A Religious and Cultural History

Author: James A. Benn
ISBN: 9780824839635
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Explores the contours of religious and cultural transformation in traditional China from the point of view of an...  Read More >>

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