Food & Society

This thought-provoking, accessible book critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford ch...

This thought-provoking, accessible book critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford ch...

'The Balti' charts the story of one of Britains most iconic dishes, from its birth in 1975 in Birminghams Balti Triangle, through the height of its...

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.Food Rules, Michael Pollan's wise and witty critique of the we...

'I laughed and cried a little, reading the book with Pam's voice in my head. A true inspiration on every level as a memoir and, as only Pam can, te...

In the 1990s a small midwestern American town approved the construction of a massive pork complex, where almost 7 million hogs are birthed, raised,...

In the 1990s a small midwestern American town approved the construction of a massive pork complex, where almost 7 million hogs are birthed, raised,...

Small-scale agricultural producers in the peripheral world are often condescendingly assumed to be a single social class (the peasantry) to be pitt...

Most agricultural production is of commodity or undifferentiated products. Producers suffer from a roller-coaster ride of price swings, over- or un...

A Twist in the Tail takes readers on a tantalising voyage through European and American gastronomic history, following the trail of a small but mig...

For fans of Michael Pollan and Anthony Bourdain, this surprising, flavorsome tour of ancient cuisines (Kirkus STARRED)from Neolithic bread to ancie...

Food as culture in literature and the artsThis issue of Alif seeks to contribute to current scholarship on food and foodways. Food, here, emerges a...

This book explores the moral and political significance of gastrospaces: the spaces where we eat. It adopts an innovative approach, combining analy...

Food stood at the centre of Mussolinis attempt to occupy Ethiopia and build an Italian Empire in East Africa. Seeking to redirect the surplus of It...

A wave of innovation driven by the convergence of digital and molecular technologies is transforming food production and ways of eating in the US, ...

Eating Right in America is a powerful critique of dietary reform in the United States from the late nineteenth-century emergence of nutritional sci...

Wine in the Ancient World (1957) examines wine in all its forms in, primarily, ancient Greece and Rome. It looks at the origins of wine, its produc...