Food & Society

Winner, James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference, History, and ScholarshipWinner, Harriet Tubman PrizeA stunning work of popular historythe ...

Asian Smallholders in Comparative Perspective provides the first multicountry, inter-disciplinary analysis of the single most important social and ...

This volume of essays surveys gastronomy across global literary modernisms. Modernists explore public and domestic spaces where food and drink are ...

Eating and drinking are essential to survival. Yet for human animals, they are intrinsically ambivalent, proliferating with ideological, historical...

Civil society organizations are among the most vociferous critics of the modern food system. Yet even after decades of campaigns, governments have ...

This agricultural history explores the transformation of the Santa Clara Valley over the past one hundred years from America's largest fruit-produc...

An in-depth investigation of the complex relationships among food, culture, and society in Korea, Communicating Food in Korea features contributors...

A fascinating and approachable deep dive into the colonial roots of the global wine industry.Imperial Wine is a bold, rigorous history of Britains ...

Food, Ethics, and Society: An Introductory Text with Readings presents seventy-three readings that address real-world ethical issues at the forefro...

This book offers a wide-ranging yet concise introduction to the many philosophical issues surrounding food production and consumption. It begins wi...

In the landscape of the American imagination the Kansas farmer looms large, an icon of midwestern diligence and bounty. But just as the states seem...

Celebrated food scholar Darra Goldstein takes readers on a vivid tour of history and culture through Russian cuisine.  The Kingdom of Rye unearths ...

Exploring why food aid exists and the deeper causes of food poverty, this book addresses neglected dimensions of traditional food aid and food pove...

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

What, exactly, did tea, sugar, and opium mean in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain? Alimentary Orientalism reassesses the politics of Orie...

Islam is the only major world religion that resists the juggernaut of alcohol consumption. In many Islamic countries, alcohol is banned; in others,...

A chronicle of hard work and a public health resource, Slow Cooked is also proof that its never too late.New York TimesMarion Nestle reflects on he...

In An Ethnography of Hunger Kristin D. Phillips examines how rural farmers in central Tanzania negotiate the interconnected projects of subsistence...

Bringing together multidisciplinary scholars from the growing discipline of food studies, Food Mobilities examines food provisioning and the food c...

A uniquely collaborative analysis of human adaptation to the Polynesian islands, told through oral histories, biophysical evidence, and historical ...

Chinas spectacular achievements in agriculture in recent decades whereby it has succeeded in feeding some 20% of the worlds population with 9% of ...

A key period in the history of food cooperatives that continues to influence how we purchase organic food today Our notions of food co-ops generall...

A key period in the history of food cooperatives that continues to influence how we purchase organic food today Our notions of food co-ops generall...

Farmers' cooperatives are very prevalent in the European Union, where they account for approximately half of agricultural trade and thus are key to...

'A powerful, poignant tale of dieting and despair.' The Times'A moving, brutally honest memoir about what it feels like to be fat-shamed.' Mail on ...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

The objective of publishing this book is to let the general public have a better understanding of the food security situation in China and better c...

In Inventing Authenticity, Carrie Helms Tippen examines the rhetorical power of storytelling in cookbooks to fortify notions of southernness. Tippe...

Migrant workers live in a transnational world that spans the boundaries of nation-states. Yet for undocumented workers, this world is complicated b...

Archaeological case studies that explore the rituals and cultural significance of foods in the southeastern United States.  Understanding and expla...

An Elusive Common details the fraught dynamics of rural life in the arid periphery of southeastern Morocco. Karen Rignall considers whether agraria...

In the hill country of northeast Cambodia, just a few kilometers from the Vietnam border, sits the village of Tang Kadon. This community of hill ri...

A century ago, only local charities existed to feed children. Today 368 million children receive school lunches in 151 countries, in programs suppo...

In the hill country of northeast Cambodia, just a few kilometers from the Vietnam border, sits the village of Tang Kadon. This community of hill ri...

In Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat, historian A. R. Ruis explores the origins of American school meal initiatives to explain why it was (and, to s...

This book chronicles the earliest histories of familiar tropical Asian crops in the ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean, from rice and cotton...

Chocolate and sugar, alcohol and tobacco, peyote and hallucinogenic mushroomsthese seductive substances have been a nexus of desire for both pleasu...

Laguna Lake, the largest lake in the Philippines, supplies Manila's dense urban region with fish and water while operating as a sink for its stormf...