Food & society books

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This culinary romp through 50 dishes that shaped human history will tickle the tastebuds of every food lover  Read More >>

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Through interviews with farmers, chefs, non-profit managers, teachers, consumers, and healthcare providers, the...  Read More >>

Time is central to agriculture, in growing seasons, harvesting cycles, and market temporalities. The mediation of...  Read More >>

Based on extensive fieldwork in Venezuela, Cultivating Socialism provides the first in-depth study of the ways in...  Read More >>

Time is central to agriculture, in growing seasons, harvesting cycles, and market temporalities. The mediation of...  Read More >>

A fascinating exploration of the history of alcohol in Victorian Britain via the 'drink maps' that were produced...  Read More >>

"Vegetables and herbs play essential role in food and nutritional security. They are considered ""protective foods""...  Read More >>

Launching the runaway bestseller with ambitions to be the biggest non-fiction paperback of the year IT'S NOT YOU....  Read More >>

Part memoir and part history lesson, Food Margins traces the tangled economic and political histories of the plantation,...  Read More >>

Focuses on the intimate relations that develop between plants and humans in the milpas of the northern rural region...  Read More >>

A transformative and big-hearted memoir about life at sea, for fans of The Shepherd's Life and The Salt Path.  Read More >>

Provides lessons from the cranberry industry in North America, which is substantially organized around one large...  Read More >>

Part memoir and part history lesson, Food Margins traces the tangled economic and political histories of the plantation,...  Read More >>

Fruit ripening is a complex process involving many physiological and biochemical events that leads to the accumulation...  Read More >>

This book advances contemporary debates on the evolution of patriarchal institutions in agrarian transitions and...  Read More >>

Celebrated food scholar Darra Goldstein takes readers on a vivid tour of history and culture through Russian cuisine....  Read More >>

A fascinating and approachable deep dive into the colonial roots of the global wine industry. Imperial Wine is...  Read More >>

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Chronicles a year in the life of a septuagenarian sheep farmer as she observes and reflects on the cycles of life...  Read More >>

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The Sheep Industry of Territorial New Mexico offers a detailed account of the New Mexico sheep industry during the...  Read More >>

An insider's account of the global race to be the first company to put a lab-produced meat product on the market,...  Read More >>

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