Food & society books

This book focuses on the rhetoric of food and the power dimensions that intersect this most fundamental but increasingly...  Read More >>

Food and Drink: the cultural context is the first text to provide a comprehensive and academically rigorous introduction...  Read More >>

Tea fanatic Juanita Browne investigates Irish tea habits and the rules, the warmth, the comfort and the craic in...  Read More >>

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A lively cultural history that explains how candy became more like food and food more like candy --  Read More >>

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the barriers and opportunities confronting minority communities' ability...  Read More >>

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"Real Dirt is a groundbreaking book for any reader interested in learning more about where food comes from. Harry...  Read More >>

Calories - too few or too many - are the source of health problems affecting billions of people in today's globalized...  Read More >>

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

""With selections from the vaults of The Cartoonist Group""--Cover.  Read More >>

Does living with a pet really make a person happier and healthier? Which of the two has a better quality of life:...  Read More >>

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In this book, the authors present topical research in the study of the types, nutritional composition and health...  Read More >>

"""People's lives are written on the fields of old farms. The rows of the fields are like lines on a page, blank...  Read More >>

This publication brings together contributions from scholars in numerous disciplines, including philosophy, law,...  Read More >>

What do Agent Orange, DDT, PCBs, Roundup, and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have in common? Monsanto. Monsanto...  Read More >>

This food biography focuses on how people have experienced the bounty of the City by the Bay.  Read More >>

MEATONOMICS is the first book to fully explore the murky economics underlying animal food production and its revelations...  Read More >>

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In the past decade, obesity has emerged as a major public health concern in the United States and abroad. At the...  Read More >>