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Fresh and Wild Cookbook: A Real Food Adventure

Fresh and Wild Cookbook: A Real Food Adventure

Author: Ysanne Spevack
ISBN: 9780007332557
Format: Paperback
$31.65

Fresh and Wild is the hippest and most successful organic supermarket chain in the UK. Now organic cookery queen...  Read More >>

Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice

Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice

Author: Alissa Hamilton
ISBN: 9780300124712
Format: Hardback
$79.20

Explores the history of orange juice. This book describes the early forces that propelled orange juice to prominence,...  Read More >>

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

Author: Richard Wrangham
ISBN: 9780465013623
Format: Hardback
$71.15

A startling new theory that the invention of cooking led to the creation of the human species  Read More >>

Meals in Science and Practice: Interdisciplinary Research and Business Applications

Meals in Science and Practice: Interdisciplinary Research...

Author: H. L. Meiselman (US Army Natick Soldier Systems Center, USA)
ISBN: 9781439801062
Format: Hardback
$739.07

Examines how meals are defined, studied, and taught. This book discusses social eating and eating alone, the influence...  Read More >>

The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink

The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink

Author: Andrew F. Smith (, USA)
ISBN: 9780195387094
Format: Paperback
$93.95

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African American Food Culture

African American Food Culture

Author: William Frank Mitchell
ISBN: 9780313346200
Format: Hardback
$90.00

Intends to remind us of the roots of soul food and the importance of food in African American identity. This title...  Read More >>

The Compassionate Carnivore: Or, How to Keep Animals Happy, Save Old MacDonald's Farm, Reduce Your Hoofprint, and Still Eat Meat

The Compassionate Carnivore: Or, How to Keep Animals...

Author: Catherine Friend
ISBN: 9780738213095
Format: Paperback
$29.99

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The Oxford Companion to Italian Food

The Oxford Companion to Italian Food

Author: Gillian Riley (, UK)
ISBN: 9780195387100
Format: Paperback
$28.95

A blend of cultural history, facts, practical information, and anecdote, The Oxford Companion to Italian Food features...  Read More >>

Globesity: A Planet Out of Control?

Globesity: A Planet Out of Control?

Author: Francis Delpeuch ,  Bernard Maire
ISBN: 9781844076673
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Obesity represents one of the major global health challenges of the 21st century. Its occurrence has now reached...  Read More >>

Reflexive biotechnology development: Studying plant breeding technologies and genomics for agriculture in the developing world

Reflexive biotechnology development: Studying plant...

Author: Wietse Vroom
ISBN: 9789086861064
Format: Paperback
$237.60

Agriculture plays a crucial role in the alleviation of extreme poverty and hunger. Development of new crop varieties...  Read More >>

Crawfishes of Louisiana

Crawfishes of Louisiana

Author: Jerry G. Walls ,  Maleta M Walls
ISBN: 9780807134092
Format: Paperback
$72.60

Everyone in Louisiana knows something about crawfish - especially how tasty they can be when boiled with just the...  Read More >>

Globesity: A Planet Out of Control?

Globesity: A Planet Out of Control?

Author: Francis Delpeuch ,  Bernard Maire
ISBN: 9781844076666
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Obesity represents one of the major global health challenges of the 21st century. Its occurrence has now reached...  Read More >>

Food, Risk and Politics: Scare, Scandal and Crisis - Insights into the Risk Politics of Food Safety

Food, Risk and Politics: Scare, Scandal and Crisis -...

Author: Ed Randall ,  Bethan Hirst
ISBN: 9780719072307
Format: Hardback
$195.00

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Hot Dog: A Global History

Hot Dog: A Global History

Author: Bruce Kraig
ISBN: 9781861894274
Format: Hardback
$27.99

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Pie: A Global History

Pie: A Global History

Author: Janet Clarkson
ISBN: 9781861894250
Format: Hardback
$27.99

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Spices: A Global History

Spices: A Global History

Author: Fred Czarra
ISBN: 9781861894267
Format: Hardback
$27.99

Focusing on the five premier spices black pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and the chili pepper and also relating...  Read More >>

Fresh: A Perishable History

Fresh: A Perishable History

Author: Susanne Freidberg
ISBN: 9780674032910
Format: Hardback
$73.79

Traces our paradoxical hunger to its roots in the rise of mass consumption, when freshness seemed both proof of...  Read More >>

Japan's Whaling: The Politics of Culture in Historical Perspective

Japan's Whaling: The Politics of Culture in Historical...

Author: Hiroyuki Watanabe
ISBN: 9781876843694
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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Japan's Whaling: The Politics of Culture in Historical Perspective

Japan's Whaling: The Politics of Culture in Historical...

Author: Hiroyuki Watanabe
ISBN: 9781876843755
Format: Hardback
$237.47

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The Foods of Chicago: A Delicious History

The Foods of Chicago: A Delicious History

Author: Wttw
ISBN: 9780810126619
Format: DVD
$58.05

You are what you eat goes the old saying. So what can we learn about Chicagoans from the food on our plates? This...  Read More >>

Chocolate: History, Culture, and Heritage

Chocolate: History, Culture, and Heritage

Author: Louis E. Grivetti ,  Howard-Yana Shapiro, PhD.
ISBN: 9780470121658
Format: Hardback
$210.95

Written by a cross-disciplinary team of more than sixty scholars with professional credentials in anthropology,...  Read More >>

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