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5219 books were found.

Bhukelelya Deshachi Krushi Mahasattekade Watchal

Bhukelelya Deshachi Krushi Mahasattekade Watchal

Author: Anil Annasaheb Shinde
ISBN: 9789395139595
Format: Paperback
$42.21

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Totally Q: An Insider's Look at the Crazy World of Barbecue

Totally Q: An Insider's Look at the Crazy World of Barbecue...

Author: George Hensler
ISBN: 9780983251514
Format: Paperback
$43.86

From an examination of the origin of the word ‘barbecue’ to a complete list of all the grand prize winners of the...  Read More >>

Of Cabbages and Kimchi: A Practical Guide to the World of Fermented Food

Of Cabbages and Kimchi: A Practical Guide to the World...

Author: James Read
ISBN: 9780241455005
Format: Hardback
$45.00

A playful and accessible guide to fermenting at home James Read is on a mission to smuggle bacteria into our kitchens....  Read More >>

Inscrutable Eating: Asian Appetites and the Rhetorics of Racial Consumption

Inscrutable Eating: Asian Appetites and the Rhetorics...

Author: Jennifer Lin Lemesurier
ISBN: 9780814258675
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Investigates how the rhetorical framing of cultural food and eating practices underpins our understanding of race...  Read More >>

Breakfast Cereal: A Global History

Breakfast Cereal: A Global History

Author: Kathryn Cornell Dolan
ISBN: 9781789146950
Format: Hardback
$27.99

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From King Cane to the Last Sugar Mill: Agricultural Technology and the Making of Hawai‘i’s Premier Crop

From King Cane to the Last Sugar Mill: Agricultural...

Author: C. Allan Jones ,  Robert V. Osgood
ISBN: 9780824895761
Format: Paperback
$73.89

Focuses on the technological and scientific advances that allowed Hawai’i’s sugar industry to become a world leader....  Read More >>

Inscrutable Eating: Asian Appetites and the Rhetorics of Racial Consumption

Inscrutable Eating: Asian Appetites and the Rhetorics...

Author: Jennifer Lin Lemesurier
ISBN: 9780814215371
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Investigates how the rhetorical framing of cultural food and eating practices underpins our understanding of race...  Read More >>

Undernutrition in India: Causes, Consequences and Policy Measures

Undernutrition in India: Causes, Consequences and Policy...

Author: Aparajita Chattopadhyay ,  Akancha Singh
ISBN: 9789811981814
Format: Hardback
$284.60

It addresses SDG 2, namely “end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.”...  Read More >>

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Indian Cuisine

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Indian Cuisine

Author: Colleen Taylor Sen ,  Sourish Bhattacharyya
ISBN: 9781350128637
Format: Hardback
$260.00

This reference work covers the cuisine and foodways of India in all their diversity and complexity, including regions,...  Read More >>

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Food and Material Cultures

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Food and Material Cultures...

Author: Irina D. Mihalache (University of Toronto, Canada) ,  Professor Elizabeth Zanoni (Old Dominion University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350148307
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Cookbooks. Menus. Ingredients. Dishes. Pots. Kitchens. Markets. Museum exhibitions. These objects, representations,...  Read More >>

What's Cooking in the Kremlin: From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork

What's Cooking in the Kremlin: From Rasputin to Putin,...

Author: Witold Szablowski ,  Andrij Bondar
ISBN: 9789664480915
Format: Hardback
$31.70

A high-spirited culinary travel adventure that tells the story of the last hundred years of Russian power through...  Read More >>

Food, Language, and Society: Communication in Japanese Foodways

Food, Language, and Society: Communication in Japanese...

Author: Natsuko Tsujimura
ISBN: 9781498571333
Format: Hardback
$202.00

This book investigates how intricately language, food, and culture interact in Japanese society and culture. Natsuko...  Read More >>

Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in India

Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of...

Author: Yamini Narayanan
ISBN: 9781503634374
Format: Paperback
$92.40

India imposes stringent criminal penalties, including life imprisonment in some states, for cow slaughter, based...  Read More >>

Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in India

Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of...

Author: Yamini Narayanan
ISBN: 9781503634367
Format: Hardback
$277.20

India imposes stringent criminal penalties, including life imprisonment in some states, for cow slaughter, based...  Read More >>

The Landscapes of Italian Food: Local Development and Healthy Practices

The Landscapes of Italian Food: Local Development and...

Author: Gregory Smith ,  Gilda Berruti (Federico II University of Naples, Italy)
ISBN: 9781032247236
Format: Hardback
$96.99

The book examines contemporary food systems in Italy, paying particular attention to the landscape, innovative local...  Read More >>

Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century:...

Author: Paul Collinson ,  Iain Young
ISBN: 9781800739161
Format: Paperback
$72.32

Sustainability is one of the great problems facing food production today. Using cross-disciplinary perspectives...  Read More >>

Feeding Anxieties: The Politics of Children's Food in Poland

Feeding Anxieties: The Politics of Children's Food in...

Author: Zofia Boni
ISBN: 9781800738713
Format: Hardback
$269.10

Focusing on the underlying politics behind children’s food, this book highlights the variety of social relationships,...  Read More >>

From Chinatown to Every Town: How Chinese Immigrants Have Expanded the Restaurant Business in the United States

From Chinatown to Every Town: How Chinese Immigrants...

Author: Zai Liang
ISBN: 9780520384972
Format: Paperback
$49.95

From Chinatown to Every Town explores the recent history of Chinese immigration within the United States and the...  Read More >>

Making Bourbon: A Geographical History of Distilling in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky

Making Bourbon: A Geographical History of Distilling...

Author: Karl Raitz
ISBN: 9780813197012
Format: Paperback
$105.60

Unique interdisciplinary study uncovering the complex history poured into every glass of bourbon.  Read More >>

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