Food & society books

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Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century aims to bring together detailed analyses of the cultural myths,...  Read More >>

Frederick Douglass Opie deconstructs and compares the foodways of people of African descent throughout the Americas,...  Read More >>

Francis Thicke, PhD, is a scientist, an expert on sustainable agriculture, and a practicing dairy farmer. He is...  Read More >>

In 1785 James Boswell and Dr Johnson were trying to come up with a way of distinguishing human beings from animals....  Read More >>

In 1785 James Boswell and Dr Johnson were trying to come up with a way of distinguishing human beings from animals....  Read More >>

Beginning where stories of colonial liquor control and exploitation leave off, this title looks at the commerce...  Read More >>

Argues that what, or more precisely who, we eat is determined by the patriarchal politics of our culture, and that...  Read More >>

Explores the hidden history of orange juice. This book looks at the early forces that propelled orange juice to...  Read More >>

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Tells the story of the product fish and chips, the author's personal background in the trade, some of his favourite...  Read More >>

Featuring stories of hand-rolled pasta, homemade chutney, local markets, backyard gardens, wild mushrooms and foraged...  Read More >>

This study examines the socioeconomic and environmental implications of the new camu camu industry in Peru. Camu...  Read More >>

The new century brings challenges and opportunities with an agingpopulation and the rise of food prices and health...  Read More >>

This copiously illustrated book takes the lid off the real story of prison food.  Read More >>

Obesity is an important medical concern in today's society. In this fascinating account, Sander L. Gilman examines...  Read More >>

Tracing the relationship between Big Food and Big Money, O'Brien maintains that the United States allows hidden...  Read More >>

All parents want their toddlers to be healthy, happy eaters but mealtimes can often end in a battle of wills. This...  Read More >>

From small neighborhood stores to huge corporate chains of super-markets, the author traces the charged story of...  Read More >>

In this collection of fifteen essays, archaeologists and ethnographers explore the material record of food and its...  Read More >>

This book investigates the emergence of organic food and farming as a social movement. Using the tools of political...  Read More >>

Exhaustively researched and highly original, this narrative history is a detailed, deeply sympathetic portrait of...  Read More >>

In this revelatory work, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson shows how food affects our moral selves, our health, and our...  Read More >>

""Ellis has well chosen the Hudson, the Mohawk, and their tributaries for a study of agriculture in one of its periods...  Read More >>