Food & society books

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The authors have discovered the link between food choices and human health, animal suffering and environmental degradation...  Read More >>

A blend of cultural history, facts, practical information, and anecdote, this new companion to food, with a foreward...  Read More >>

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From the lentil to the soybean, every civilization on the planet has cultivated its own species of bean. The humble...  Read More >>

This companion book to the Discovery Health Channels upcoming series of the same name synthesizes years of research...  Read More >>

Author's name appears as Colleen M. Brady on CD-ROM.  Read More >>

Explores the history of Jewish eating and Jewish identity. This book looks at the developments in Jewish eating...  Read More >>

Cookbooks tell stories. They open up the worlds in which the people who wrote and read them once lived. In the hands...  Read More >>

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A son of a Sri Lankan father and Burmese mother, the author grew up in South London. Every day his mother would...  Read More >>

We have lost touch with our food. So much of what we eat comes prepackaged and prepared in plastic, hardly any of...  Read More >>

When Peter Minuit bought Manhattan for $24 in 1626 he showed his shrewdness by also buying the oyster beds off tiny,...  Read More >>

A guide to greening cities -- with or without permission.  Read More >>

A history of cooking and fine dining in Western Europe from 1520 to 1660  Read More >>

One of humanity's most important milestones was the transition from hunting and gathering to food production and...  Read More >>

First published in 1852, this book features 241 recipes suitable for small budgets, ranging from the simple art...  Read More >>

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