Food & Society

Food for the Future: Stories from the Alternative Agro-food Movement is about different foods, the stories they contain, and most of all the people...

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

Opened in 1907 in Shreveport, Louisiana, by Lizzetta LeFalle-Collinss grandfather, Black dairy farmer Angus Bates, Lakeside Dairy was a rarity in t...

A gorgeous, evocative memoir of family, food and migration. As a child, Or Rosenboims knowledge of her family history was based on the food her gra...

In a food industry shaped by the abundance, cheapness, and convenience that giant corporations can offer, small-­scale ventures struggle to survive...

This book made me laugh and then order an unholy amount of takeaway. GREG DAVIESOne of my favourite comics has now written an annoyingly great book...

From the Financial Times's long-standing restaurant critic Nicholas Lander comes this celebration of the history, design and evolution of the world...

The definitive case for radically rethinking humanity's relationship with other animals - for the good of us all. 'The book that had the most impac...

How have eating habits changed in recent decades? What does it mean to eat well? This fascinating book examines continuity and change in food consu...

How have eating habits changed in recent decades? What does it mean to eat well? This fascinating book examines continuity and change in food consu...

Through the Lens of Cultural Anthropology presents an introduction to cultural anthropology designed to engage students who are learning about the ...

Nutraceutical, during recent decades, has emerged as a new term in the scientific literature. Synonymously used to the term nutraceuticals in liter...

Couch potatoes are idlers, cabbageheads are dunces, swede-bashers are stupid and you may as well give up life if you become a vegetable.A vegetable...

What urban food networks reveal about middle class livability in times of transformation In recent years, the concept of livability has captured th...

What urban food networks reveal about middle class livability in times of transformation In recent years, the concept of livability has captured th...

Humans are unique among animals for the wide diversity of foods and food preparation techniques that are intertwined with regional cultural distinc...

Gerald Diffey has spent four decades immersed in the world of food, wine and hospitality, from early days waiting tables in old English hotels to e...

What is a drink map? It may sound like a pub guide, yet it actually refers to a type of late nineteenth-century British map designed specifically t...

A global movement to take back our food is growing. The future of farming is in our hands-and in our cities. This book examines alternative food s...

Food is a challenging subject. There is little consensus about how and what we should produce and consume. It is not even clear what food is or whe...

Winner, James Beard Foundation Best Cookbook of the Year Award, 2015 James Beard Foundation Best International Cookbook Award, 2015 The Art of Eati...

Winner of the 2018 First Book Prize from the Association for the Study of Food and Society For the past four decades, increasing numbers of America...

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

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

Whenever we turn on the TV, flip a page in a magazine, or glance at a flyer in the grocery store, we are constantly bombarded with nutritional advi...

'A playful story, most entertaining, and wonderfully documented' Ferran Adria'An entertaining smorgasbord of tasty stories that build into a deeper...

Between 1850 and 1950, experts and entrepreneurs in Britain and the United States forged new connections between the nutrition sciences and the com...

So much of what we know of clean water, clean air, and now a stable climate rests on how fossil fuels first disrupted them. Negative Ecologies is a...