Food & society books

This book argues that regional food culture is intrinsic to how Chinese connect to the past, live in the present,...  Read More >>

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Based on the two classics by K.T. Achaya - Indian Food: A Historical Companion (OUP 1994) and A Historical Dictionary...  Read More >>

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What changes need to be made to the ways we trade, process and purchase our food if everyone in the world is going...  Read More >>

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Presents analysis of alternatives to models of food provision. This book offers insights into the identities, motives...  Read More >>

Presents analysis of alternatives to various models of food provision. This book offers insights into the identities,...  Read More >>

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Analyzes a range of diverse writings that focus on food, eating, and cooking and considers how factors such as industrialization,...  Read More >>

Through a mixture of cultural and scientific history, food politics, and culinary detective work, this book covers...  Read More >>

Features the story of how, in early 2007, a few calls about sick cats set off one of the largest recall of consumer...  Read More >>

Looks into doughnut production, marketing, and consumption. This book confronts head-on the question of why we often...  Read More >>

fascinating new book on obesity which charts its cultural history from the mid-nineteenth century to the present...  Read More >>

fascinating new book on obesity which charts its cultural history from the mid-nineteenth century to the present...  Read More >>

Traces the rise and spread of citrus across the globe: from Southeast Asia in 4000 BC through North Africa and the...  Read More >>

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The final chapter on diet and health looks at some of the ideologies underlying the relation between food and disease,...  Read More >>

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