Food & society books

An eye-opening guide to how America feeds itself and an essential companion book to the new documentary  Read More >>

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER In Cool Food, celebrated actor and philanthropist Robert Downey...  Read More >>

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""This comprehensive and authoritative all-in-one resource examines the issue of food insecurity in the United States,...  Read More >>

Showing how the history of the apple goes far beyond the orchard and into the social, cultural and technological...  Read More >>

Poverty and Food Insecurity in Africa: The Voice of the Voiceless is an insightful book on the true financial state...  Read More >>

A new collection of essays on food production and distribution in the Arab world and their sociocultural and political...  Read More >>

""After Eating explores the emerging field of metabolic arts, practices which engage the materials and methodologies...  Read More >>

The Taste of Water explores the increasing erasure of tastes from drinking water over the twentieth century. It...  Read More >>

Documents the growth of celebrity humanitarianism, viewing the phenomenon through the lens of feminist ethnography...  Read More >>

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A rich, long-term ethnography of women seafood traders in Mexico.  Read More >>

Have you ever wondered why your tap water tastes the way it does? The Taste of Water explores the increasing erasure...  Read More >>

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Climate change and its impact on agricultural practices Climate change is a global issue that is having a profound...  Read More >>

This book studies the history of communal dining schemes in Britain during WWI, WWII and the interwar period to...  Read More >>

Food Information, Communication and Education analyses the role of different media in producing and transforming...  Read More >>

Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and Chicano author Victor Valle posits the chile as a metaphor for understanding...  Read More >>

What's for dinner? Not just in America, but around the world? And how is it cooked, what's the historical significance...  Read More >>

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Combining an analysis of political economy and ecocultural heritage, this book examines post-Soviet Latvia and post-apartheid...  Read More >>

Mushroom Culture: Its Extension and Improvement, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the...  Read More >>

Publisher: Macmillan Publication date: 1904 Subjects: Hunting Muskox American bison Mountain sheep Mountain goat...  Read More >>

Food Mobilities tells the fascinating story of how we cook, shop, and eat in today's global food system.  Read More >>

'Tasha is a whirlwind of creativity and makes incredible food full of love, understanding and respect to her ancestors.'...  Read More >>