Food and Society, Paperback

This volume offers a comprehensive guide to methods used in the sociocultural, linguistic and historical research of food use. This volume is uniqu...

Reducere. In recent decades, the various strands of the food movement have made enormous strides in calling attention the many shortcomings and injustices of...

Reducere. More than just a niche concern of a few activists, urban agriculture is a global movement that cuts across the private and public sectors, economic...

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...

Presents FAO's guiding document to support the Government of Turkey in addressing the needs of Syrians under Temporary Protection (SuTPs) and vulne...

Food as Communication Communication as FoodPublisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncNumber of pages: 465Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 152 x 226 x 27...

Reducere. Throughout the United States, people are increasingly concerned about where their food comes from, how it is produced, and how its production affec...

An investigation of the workings, and the cultural domination of Western society, of the fast food industry - from research labs to marketing strat...

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Contributor(s): Author: Barilla Center for Food and NutritionEditor: Danielle NierenbergMangos from India, pasta from Italy, coffee from Colombia: ...

A definitive reader for all students of food history, comprised of primary source extracts spanning the globe from classical antiquity to the prese...

Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions extends the original conception of the food regime, formulated by Harriet Friedmann and Philip McMichael, detai...

Food and drink has been a focal point of modern social theory since the inception of agrarian capitalism and the industrial revolution. From Adam S...

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Reducere. Sistah Vegan is a series of narratives, critical essays, poems, and reflections from a diverse community of North American black-identified vegans....

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 156 x 235 x 26Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Marci...

Amid growing interest in food and drink as an academic discipline in recent years, this volume is the first to provide insight into eating and drin...

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Conversations With Food offers readers an array of essays revealing the power of food (and its absence) to transform relationships between the huma...

Reducere. This title is a guide to doing research in the burgeoning field of food studies. Designed for the classroom as well as for the independent scholar,...

This Companion provides an engaging and expansive overview of gustation, gastronomy, agriculture and alimentary activism in literature from the med...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 50 bw illusNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 231 x 151 x 13Cover type: Pap...

Reducere. Black vegan men discuss masculinity, sexuality, race, diet, health, fatherhood, social justice, animal rights, and the environment in this companio...

Integrating recent research and existing knowledge on food marketing and its effects on the eating behaviour of children, adolescents, and adults, ...

Publisher: Dear DamselsIllustration(s): 5 black and white line drawingsNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 132 x 196 x 25Cover ty...

Contributor(s): Editor: Carolyn KorsmeyerEditor: David HowesTaste is recognized as one of the most evocative senses. The flavors of food play an im...

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)Author(s): Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsIllustratio...

A thought-provoking dissection of the ways in which the production and consumption of food have become harmful to our personal, societal and enviro...

Reducere. Biocultural and archaeological research on food, past and present, often relies on very specific, precise, methods for data collection and analysis...

Look around you-color is everywhere. The clothes we wear, the food we eat, the posters with which we decorate our rooms; indeed all of our surround...

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Reducere. Christians in the United States are on a quest for good food. And yet, at every turn, they confront brokenness in the food system. Access to health...

This book offers original and inventive narratives, including auto-ethnographic discussions, of representations, discourses and practices about and...

Reducere. COVID-19 has exposed the racialized nature of food systems, but also potentially grants opportunities to build anew. Maywa Montenegro explores a se...

Reducere. The ways we farm and the ways we eat will determine the destiny of life on earth. Farms and food are foundational for civilization. Right now our c...

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Until recently, Chinese children ate what their parents fed them and were not permitted to influence, much less dictate, their own diet. The situat...

As the price of college continues to rise and the incomes of most Americans stagnate, too many college students are going hungry. According to rese...

Reducere. The Tall Corn State's agricultural history influences countless aspects of modern life. To truly understand Iowa, you have to understand the cultur...

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University PressNumber of pages: 350Collection: Medieval & Renaissance Literary StudiesPublication date: 2021Dimensio...

Reducere. Learn the ABC's with traditional Japanese food in this beautiful children's book From A for Azuki to Z for Zashiki, "Japanese ABC's" features favor...

The intersection of food and immigration in North America, from the macroscale of national policy to the microscale of immigrants' lived, daily foo...

In the US, there is a wide-ranging network of at least 370 food banks, and more than 60, 000 hunger-relief organizations such as food pantries and ...

In this unique anthology, women from around the world write about the movement to change the current, industrial paradigm of how we grow our food. ...

Description Bring mushrooms into your life as you dive into the practice of home-scale mushroom cultivation With applications in permaculture, urba...

Reducere. "Fully of provocation and insight." - Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, author of War, Genocide, and Justice

Reducere. Food in Cuba follows Cuban families as they struggle to maintain a decent quality of life in Cuba's faltering, post-Soviet welfare state by specifi...

Why are so many literary texts preoccupied with food? The Literature of Food explores this question by looking at the continually shifting relation...

DescriptionIreland's Green Larder tells the story of food and drink in Ireland, for the first time. From the ancient system of the C ide Fields, es...

Reducere. Hunger and malnutrition are increasing across the world and the global target of Zero Hunger by 2030 is beginning to look unattainable. Some expert...

The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once satisfied with cheap an...

Reducere. An exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today's toxic food culture.Food is supposed to sustain and nourish us....

First published in 1984, and now in its 6th edition, this book has become the classic text on food chemistry around the world. The bulk components ...

A beloved chef takes on institutional food and sparks a revolution Good food generally doesn't arrive on a tray: hospital food is famously ridicule...

Reducere. Hailed as "invaluable...a substantial work of political thought, " (New Statesman) in a groundbreaking report, based on years of reporting, David R...

Extensively researched from a wide range of sources so that theoretical concepts are illuminated with the men's own accounts of lived experience. -- .

This book on the humanitarian NGO CARE offers a unique historical insight into the successes and crises of one of the major private humanitarian pl...

Reducere. There are twenty million acres of lawns in North America. In their current form, these unproductive expanses of grass represent a significant finan...

DescriptionCheap Meat follows the controversial trade in inexpensive fatty cuts of lamb or mutton, called "flaps, " from the farms of New Zealand a...

Reducere. No Cow Left BehindFrom investigative journalist and bestselling author John Robbins comes a collection of essays on food politics, sustainability, ...

A New York Times Book Review Summer Reading Selection"An intense and illuminating travelogue... offer[ing] a corrective to the patriarchal white ga...

Reducere. Fires, floods, hurricanes, drought and extended periods of heat - extreme, 'once in a lifetime' weather events now happen frequently and over prolo...

American diners began to flock to Chinese restaurants more than a century ago, making Chinese food the first mass-consumed cuisine in the United St...

Reducere. DescriptionMexican cuisine has emerged as a paradox of globalization. Food enthusiasts throughout the world celebrate the humble taco at the same t...

DescriptionBlack Appetite. White Food. invites educators to explore the nuanced manifestations of white privilege as it exists within and beyond th...

Reducere. Zapotec farmers in the northern sierra of Oaxaca, Mexico, are highly successful in providing their families with abundant, nutritious food in an ec...

Reducere. While a storeroom packed with number 10 cans might be the dream of every prepper family, it is not a reality for most of us. Between budgetary cons...

Tackles topics often overlooked in foodways. Michael Owen Jones explains how we communicate through what we eat, the connection between food choice...

From the racial defamation and mocking tone of "Mexican" restaurants geared toward the Anglo customer to the high-end Latin-inspired eateries with ...

Reducere. Seoul Food is a creative non-fiction book about the lives of second-generation Korean Americans growing up in Los Angeles County-the Mecca for the ...