A Cultural History of Food

DescriptionThe Eternal Table: A Cultural History of Food in Rome is the first concise history of the food, gastronomy, and cuisine of Rome spanning...

Reducere. In Near a Thousand Tables, acclaimed food historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto tells the fascinating story of food as cultural as well as culinary hi...

Reducere. From the author of Ten Restaurants That Changed America, an exploration of food's cultural importance and its crucial role throughout human history...

The act of eating is a basic human need. Yet, in all societies, quotidian choices regarding food and its consumption reveal deeply rooted shared cu...

Reducere. "Eating is not only a political act, it is also a cultural act that reaffirms one's identity and worldview, " Enrique Salmon writes in Eating the L...

DescriptionFrom Maui native and popular food blogger Alana Kysar, this gorgeous cookbook of 85 fresh and sunny recipes reflects the major cultures ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis gem is more than just a cookbook. Walk through history with Pomp and Sustenance author Mary Taylor Simeti as she shares the secrets...

Reducere. Soul food has played a critical role in preserving Black history, community, and culinary genius. It is also a response to--and marker of--centurie...

Reducere. The nationally syndicated columnist and bestselling author of Ask a Mexicanpresents a fascinating and tasty trip through the history and culture of...

Reducere. Texas is now hidden in a dense pine forest. Anthropologists have long divided American Indian cultures into southeastern and southwestern cultural ...

DescriptionA beautiful, comprehensive, and evocative cookbook on a relatively undiscovered cuisine. Despite the Philippines' location right in the ...

An irreverent, surprising, and entirely entertaining look at the little-known history surrounding the foods we know and loveIs Italian olive oil re...

Reducere. "For many centuries, the Iranians have looked upon food from three different points of view-the medicinal, the philosophical, and the cultural." So...

A delicious children's book by Honest History uncovering the history of cuisine and culture from around the globe.From well-known cultures to those...

Reducere. Jewish Food: The Ultimate Cookbook is a beautiful and thorough collection of recipes drawn from Jewish traditions and inspired by the contemporary ...

Why did the passion for food-gastronomy-originate in France? The key, it turns out, is France itself. In its climate, diversity of soils, abundant ...

DescriptionA global celebration of the iconic restaurant dishes that defined the course of culinary history over the past 300 yearsToday's food-lov...

Reducere. Food Studies in Latin American Literature presents a timely collection of essays analyzing a wide array of Latin American narratives through the le...

Reducere. Join Lara Croft on a global journey and prepare delicious food from around the world with Tomb Raider: The Official Cookbook and Travel Guide. Tomb...

Reducere. In the 1960s, Edna Staebler moved in with an Old Order Mennonite family to absorb their oral history and learn about Mennonite culture and cooking....

Reducere. This evocative memoir of food and family history richly braids Korean meals, memories of a mother fighting racism and the onset of schizophrenia, a...

Reducere. This is a book about Australian food, the unique flora and fauna that nourished the Aboriginal peoples of this land for over 50 000 years. It is be...

Reducere. 162A culinary journey through Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania In the Baltics, two worlds meet: the Baltic Sea connects Eastern Europe and Scandinavi...

Reducere. In The Edible South, Marcie Cohen Ferris presents food as a new way to chronicle the American South's larger history. Ferris tells a richly illustr...

We don't often recognize the humble activity of cooking for the revolutionary cultural adaptation that it is. But when the hearth fires started bur...

Reducere. In Creole Italian, Justin A. Nystrom explores the influence Sicilian immigrants have had on New Orleans foodways. His culinary journey follows thes...

Reducere. Completely redesigned for today's generation of cooks and food enthusiasts, the 25th Anniversary Edition of Food of Life: Ancient Persian and Moder...

Reducere. "The ordinary tortilla was an extraordinary bond between the human and divine. . . . From birthdays to religious ceremonies, the people of Mesoamer...

Food trucks announcing "halal" proliferate in many urban areas but how many non-Muslims know what this means, other than cheap lunch? Here Middle E...

Reducere. DescriptionCenturies of colonization and other factors have disrupted indigenous communities' ability to control their own food systems. This volum...

DescriptionAmerican Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us to Love Spam, Bananas, and Jell-O is a deeply researched and entertaining sur...

Reducere. Award-winning food critic and writer William Sitwell chronicles the fascinating global history of dining out, from the Roman wine taverns of ancien...

A Traditional Irish Cookery book, written by an Irish Restaurenteur, who have served over 1 Million guests over the past 20 years.The recipe book c...

Reducere. Romania is a true cultural melting pot, its character rooted in many traditions from Greek, Turkish, and Slavic in the south and east, to Austrian,...

Reducere. Connections between what people eat and who they are--between cuisine and identity--reach deep into Mexican history, beginning with pre-Columbian i...

Italy, the country with a hundred cities and a thousand bell towers, is also the country with a hundred cuisines and a thousand recipes. Its great ...

Reducere. A New York Times Editor's ChoiceEverything you never knew about sushi-- its surprising origins, the colorful lives of its chefs, and the bizarre be...

Presenting classic Japanese woodblock prints, Japan Journeys offers a unique perspective on the country's most famous travel destinations. This stu...

Reducere. From the authors of the highly praised The Amish Cook at Home and The Amish Cooka s Baking Book comes a rare journey through twenty years in the li...

Reducere. We are at a critical point in human history and that of the planet. In this book, a world leader in agricultural research, Professor Sayed Azam-Ali...

Reducere. DescriptionDavid Sax's delightful travelogue is a journey across the United States and around the world that investigates the history, the diaspora...

Reducere. A new approach to writing culture has arrived: multispecies ethnography. Plants, animals, fungi, and microbes appear alongside humans in this singu...

Reducere. Acorn cakes, bannock, milkweed soup and fried yucca petals are just a few of the dozens of recipes in this book. These are recipes collected from F...

Why Should You Buy This Specific Book, You Ask?Mexican food history has acquired many cultural influences, improving and reforming the Mexican cuis...

DescriptionKorean dramas gained popularity across Asia in the late 1990s, and their global fandom continues to grow. Despite cultural differences, ...

The British have been baking for centuries. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive account of how our relationship with this much-loved art h...

Reducere. Food studies, once trendy, has settled into the public arena. In the academy, scholarship on food and literary culture constitutes a growing river ...

DescriptionIn this engaging inquiry, originally published in 1989 and now fully updated for the twenty-first century, Warren J. Belasco considers t...

From large-scale cattle farming to water pollution, meat-- more than any other food--has had an enormous impact on our environment. Historically, A...

A leading scholar in the United States on Chinese archaeology challenges long-standing conceptions of the rise of political authority in ancient Ch...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rachelle CruzIntroduction by: Barbara Jane ReyesIn many ways Rachelle Cruz, here, contests, demolishes and remixes the biza...

Reducere. Upstate New York is the birthplace of many of America's favorite foods. The chicken wing was born in a bar in Buffalo, the potato chip originated i...

Reducere. Lafayette was founded as Vermilionville in 1822 by Jean Mouton, a prosperous landowner of Acadian descent whose donations of land for a Catholic ch...

Reducere. Jerusalem is steeped in a rich history and cultural - much of it centering around food. In Jerusalem Recipes you will find over 50 recipes which pu...

In a work of splendid scholarship that reflects both a firm mastery of difficult sources and a keen intuition, one of Britain's foremost medievalis...

Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts...

Reducere. Informative and Fun! Trivial and Important! Fun Facts and Profound Facts! A treat of science and history facts and compelling stories that will inf...

Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and a...

Reducere. Available for the first time in English, Cruz Miguel Ortiz Cuadra's magisterial history of the foods and eating habits of Puerto Rico unfolds into ...

Reducere. This is a unique Louisiana cookbook that teaches the fundamentals of Louisiana's Cajun and Creole cuisines and explains their similarities and diff...

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Reducere. Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and a...

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Beaches and golf are what most people think of when they think of South Carolina, and the state has those amenities in abundance. But off the well-...

Reducere. According to the renowned social critic and historian Paul Fussell, we are what we wear, and it doesn't look good. Uniforms parses the hidden meani...

DescriptionNew full color edition Inspired by memories of her father and her own experiences on the islands, Ramin Ganeshram introduces readers to ...