A Cultural History of Food

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...

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

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. Award NameBancroft PrizeAward categoryHistoryJames Merrell's brilliant book is an account of the "go-betweens, " the Europeans and Indians who move...

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

Reducere. The Great Platte River Road through Nebraska and Wyoming was the grand corridor of America's westward expansion. A number of famous trails converge...

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

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

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Reducere. In this book, Brian Hayden provides the first comprehensive, theoretical work on the history of feasting in pre-industrial societies. As an importa...

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....

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...

DescriptionAN ENTHRALLING ANDALUCIAN CULINARY JOURNEY FROM SIERRA TO SEA Andaluz is a cookbook that bridges past and present in southern Spain. For...

See God in action in this illustrated study Bible for kids and teens What do you get when you combine the trusted English Standard Version with ill...

Reducere. "Demonstrates that the 'emancipation generation' bequeathed values, ethical frameworks, and identities to multiple ensuing generations, shaping rel...

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...

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

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

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

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

Reducere. Description** NEW RELEASE ** 3-IN-1 PERFECT GIFT SET (Diwali, Navratri, Mumbai in one beautiful 112 page book)In this multicultural and educational...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

DescriptionThe story of apples begins in an unexpected place: with bears. While popular culture likes to link honey with these creatures, DNA evide...

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

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

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

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...

Reducere. Think barley's only for soup? Think again!From crepes to curry, smoothies to stir fries, chili to chapati, and straight on through bagels, dumpling...

Award NameJames Beard Foundation Book AwardsAward categoryAmericanDescriptionFrom the acclaimed team behind Manhattan's three-Michelin-starred Elev...

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

Reducere. Shawn C. Smallman and Kimberley Brown's popular introductory textbook for undergraduates in international and global studies is now released in a s...

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

Reducere. DescriptionAustralia, situated between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, is rich in rainforest, deserts, and mountains. Geological wonders such as the...

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...

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