Food & Society

We know we should eat fewer ultra-processed foods; this book shows you how to do it.From expert dietitian, Nichola Ludlam-Raine, comes this simple,...

Whether you're digging into a slice of cherry cheesecake, burning your tongue on a piece of fiery Jamaican jerk chicken, or slurping the broth from...

Retail Inequality examines the failure of recent efforts to improve Americans' diets by increasing access to healthy food. Based on exhaustive rese...

Home gardens, in addition to providing sustenance and satisfaction, embody a sense of self identity. This groundbreaking work on Vietnamese foodway...

Discover the history, causes, impacts, and potential future of global food shortagesa problem for all of humanity, not just the developing world. ...

This collection represents a new and significant contribution to the study of recipe books from the early modern period (ca. 15001800) by situating...

For decades, smiling images of Aunt Jemima and other historical and fictional black cooks could be found on various food products and in advertisin...

Melding the rural and the urban with the local, regional, and global, Levantine cuisine is a mélange of ingredients, recipes, and modes of consumpt...

As seen in Grazia, the Guardian, and more...Recognised as one of the most beloved fruits of the Black diaspora, Plantain holds profound value withi...

Fortnum & Mason Food Book of the Year 2020 Addresses the paradox of our age: why as we become pr...

In Indigenous Knowledge: An Alternative for Food Security and Wellness in Africa, Emmanuel O. Oritsejafor argues that Indigenous Knowledge (IK) nee...

Divided Spirits tells the stories of tequila and mezcal, two of Mexico's most iconic products. In doing so, the book illustrates how neoliberalism ...

Food, Media and Contemporary Culture is designed to interrogate the cultural fascination with food as the focus of a growing number of visual texts...

From Chinatown to Every Town explores the recent history of Chinese immigration within the United States and the fundamental changes in spatial set...

Like the Green Revolution of the 1960s, a Blue Revolution has taken place in global aquaculture. Geared towards quenching the appetite of privilege...

Most people try out diets just to see if they work. One friend cuts out sugar, a second cuts out fat. Another mumbles something about gut microbes....

Most people try out diets just to see if they work. One friend cuts out sugar, a second cuts out fat. Another mumbles something about gut microbes....

Control and Resistance reveals the various ways in which food writing of the early Franco era was a potent political tool, producing ways of eating...

Is the future of food looking bleak or better than ever? At a time when every day brings news of drought and famine, Amanda Little investigates w...

Food Rules and Rituals includes selected papers from the 2023 Oxford Food Symposium. Grounded in a number of different disciplines, writers from ar...

Food and cuisine are important subjects for historians across many areas of study. Food, after all, is one of the most basic human needs and a foun...

Famine Relief in Warlord China is a reexamination of disaster responses during the greatest ecological crisis of the pre-Nationalist Chinese republ...

The making, eating, and sharing of food throughout society represents an important and exciting area of study with the potential to advance the fie...

When it comes to reducing animal suffering, many people arent sure where to start or which options are most beneficial - Charitable donations? Volu...

Guides students through a rich menu of American history through food and eating This book features a wide and diverse range of primary sources cove...

This book examines the public controversies surrounding lifestyle risks in the consumer society. Comparing news coverage of the 'globesity' pandemi...

WINNER OF THE FORTNUM AND MASON FOOD BOOK AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE ANDRE SIMON AWARDA brilliant, passionate and spellbinding tour de force Claudia R...