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The Noodle Narratives: The Global Rise of an Industrial Food into the Twenty-First Century

The Noodle Narratives: The Global Rise of an Industrial...

Author: Frederick Errington ,  Deborah Gewertz
ISBN: 9780520276345
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Tasty, convenient, and cheap, instant noodles are one of the most remarkable industrial foods ever. Consumed around...  Read More >>

Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon

Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon

Author: Cindy Ott ,  William Cronon
ISBN: 9780295993324
Format: Paperback
$65.87

While many cultures eat pumpkin year round, North Americans reserve it for a set of beloved autumn rituals that...  Read More >>

Turning the Tables: Restaurants and the Rise of the American Middle Class, 1880-1920

Turning the Tables: Restaurants and the Rise of the...

Author: Andrew P. Haley
ISBN: 9781469609805
Format: Paperback
$99.00

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Global Food Futures: Feeding the World in 2050

Global Food Futures: Feeding the World in 2050

Author: Brian Gardner (Independent Scholar, Food and Agricultural Policy, UK)
ISBN: 9780857851543
Format: Hardback
$260.00

By 2050 the world will face the enormous challenge of feeding 9 billion people in the face of climate change, rising...  Read More >>

Italian Identity in the Kitchen, or Food and the Nation

Italian Identity in the Kitchen, or Food and the Nation...

Author: Massimo Montanari ,  Beth A. Brombert
ISBN: 9780231160841
Format: Hardback
$49.95

How regional Italian cuisine became the main ingredient in the nation’s political and cultural development.  Read More >>

Le Salut Par La Terre Et Le Programme Économique de l'Avenir

Le Salut Par La Terre Et Le Programme Économique de...

Author: Jules Méline ,  Meline-J
ISBN: 9782013366908
Format: Paperback
$60.59

WORK IS IN FRENCH This book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books...  Read More >>

The Biology of Government: A Primer for Politicians

The Biology of Government: A Primer for Politicians...

Author: Greg Lawrence
ISBN: 9781922204677
Format: Paperback
$44.75

The premise of this book is that the role of government is to look to the well-being of the people and to maintain...  Read More >>

Bioenergy Production by Anearobic Digestion: Using Agricultural Biomass and Organic Wastes

Bioenergy Production by Anearobic Digestion: Using Agricultural...

Author: Nicholas E Korres (Agricultural University Athens, Greece) ,  John A H Benzie (University College Cork, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781299829077
Format: Electronic book text
$396.00

Interest in anaerobic digestion (AD), the process of energy production through the production of biogas, has increased...  Read More >>

Land for the People: The State and Agrarian Conflict in Indonesia

Land for the People: The State and Agrarian Conflict...

Author: Anton Lucas ,  Carol Warren
ISBN: 9780896802872
Format: Paperback
$72.42

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Introductory Food Chemistry

Introductory Food Chemistry

Author: John Brady
ISBN: 9780801450754
Format: Hardback
$263.87

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A Bushel's Worth: An Ecobiography

A Bushel's Worth: An Ecobiography

Author: Kayann Short
ISBN: 9781937226190
Format: Paperback
$39.47

From her Colorado farm, Short explores the harvest of food and friendship reaped in this place-based narrative about...  Read More >>

Breakfast: A History

Breakfast: A History

Author: Heather Arndt Anderson
ISBN: 9780759121638
Format: Hardback
$130.00

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Pure, White, and Deadly: How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It

Pure, White, and Deadly: How Sugar Is Killing Us and...

Author: John Yudkin ,  Robert H. Lustig
ISBN: 9780143125181
Format: Paperback
$44.88

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Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith

Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith...

Author: Fred Bahnson
ISBN: 9781451663303
Format: Hardback
$68.64

"Part spiritual quest, part agricultural travelogue, this moving and profound exploration of the joy and solace...  Read More >>

Wine and Culture: Vineyard to Glass

Wine and Culture: Vineyard to Glass

Author: Rachel E. Black (Boston University, USA) ,  Robert C. Ulin (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
ISBN: 9780857854001
Format: Hardback
$240.00

This path-breaking collection by leading scholars explores the cultural, social and historical issues which inform...  Read More >>

Culinary Linguistics: The chef's special

Culinary Linguistics: The chef's special

Author: Cornelia Gerhardt (Saarland University) ,  Maximiliane Frobenius (Saarland University)
ISBN: 9789027202932
Format: Hardback
$214.76

Language and food are universal to humankind. Culinary Linguistics contains an introduction to the study of food...  Read More >>

Foodways and Empathy: Relatedness in a Ramu River Society, Papua New Guinea

Foodways and Empathy: Relatedness in a Ramu River Society,...

Author: Anita von Poser
ISBN: 9780857459190
Format: Hardback
$269.10

This in-depth study focuses on the Bosmun of Daiden, a Ramu River people in an under-represented area in the ethnography...  Read More >>

Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food

Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food

Author: Lizzie Collingham
ISBN: 9780143123019
Format: Paperback
$63.36

Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2011.  Read More >>

Food

Food

Author: John Coveney (Flinders University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781299743946
Format: Electronic book text
$316.80

The centrality of food in life, and the importance of food as life, is undeniable. As a source of biological substrates,...  Read More >>

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