Food & society books

Even with global attention, we know little about how Spanish cooking became a litmus test for demonstrating Spain’s...  Read More >>

Even with global attention, we know little about how Spanish cooking became a litmus test for demonstrating Spain’s...  Read More >>

This fully updated special edition of the classic complete guide to the edible species that grow around us includes...  Read More >>

In Southeast Asia reversals of earlier agrarian reforms have rolled back ""land-to-the-tiller"" policies created...  Read More >>

Placing coffee at the center of its analysis, Brewing Socialism links East Germany’s consumption and food culture...  Read More >>

In Southeast Asia reversals of earlier agrarian reforms have rolled back ""land-to-the-tiller"" policies created...  Read More >>

Eataly founder Oscar Farinetti reveals the accidental, serendipitous discoveries that gave birth to some of the...  Read More >>

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A History of Cookbooks provides a sweeping literary and historical overview of the cookbook genre, exploring its...  Read More >>

An anthropologist uncovers how ""great coffee"" depends not just on taste, but also on a complex system of values...  Read More >>

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Worldwide, gourmet cuisine has used mushrooms as an ingredient because of their distinctive taste and the importance...  Read More >>

One of the first ethnographies to take on the question of GM crops in the African context, We Are Not Starving:...  Read More >>

For over two millennia, the spice trade has connected and transformed vastly different societies around the world....  Read More >>

When two food geeks, who also like sci-fi, imagine how to feed a colony on Mars, they also discover how food production...  Read More >>

When two food geeks, who also like sci-fi, imagine how to feed a colony on Mars, they also discover how food production...  Read More >>

Based on over three-and-a-half decades of fieldwork in seventeen villages, across three regions, and encompassing...  Read More >>

Anxious Eaters shows that fad diets are popular because they fulfill crucial social and psychological needs—which...  Read More >>

Considers the ways that food and research intersect for both researchers, participants, and communities demonstrating...  Read More >>

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