Food & Society

Master the basics of constructing floral arrangements and explore your creativity with this engaging, reader-friendly text. FLORICULTURE: DESIGNING...

This book examines our oft emotional relationship with food; the way science has been used and misused by those who govern, provide advice to the p...

The story of Iwan and Manuela Wirth's transformation of a derelict farmstead into the international art center Hauser & Wirth Somerset.When Iwa...

Water scarcity is on everyones mind. Long taken for granted, water availability has become dependent on economics, politics, and peoples food and l...

Take a trip down memory lane to witness 22 years (1976-1998) of Mortimers, one of the most notable restaurant hotspots that ever existed for an int...

When the floodwaters that swamped metropolitan New Orleans finally receded in September 2005, the post-Hurricane Katrina recovery work began. One o...

In Six at the Table, regular contributor to RTÉ Sunday Miscellany Sheila Maher tells the story of her childhood through meals shared around the kit...

Fully updated for 2014, Low-carb & Gluten-free Vegetarian offers a complete range of easy, satisfying and stylish low-carb recipes designed spe...

COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR 2016, Spectator The definitive book about the food of Spain Rose Prince ...

Mala and Ronak are adults now. They've married, begun their own families and moved away from the suffocating world of their first generation immigr...

An army marches on its stomach and it fights on its stomach too yet have you ever wondered how hundreds of men on the frontline are fed amidst hai...

First published in 1852, Charles Elmé Francatellis A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes features 241 recipes suitable for small budgets. Fr...

Capitalism drives our global food system. Everyone who wants to end hunger, who wants to eat good, clean, healthy food, needs to understand capital...

Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Roda...

Capitalism drives our global food system. Everyone who wants to end hunger, who wants to eat good, clean, healthy food, needs to understand capital...

Found in the archive at Alnwick Castle, this little book features some of the oldest recipes for cocktails and cordials ever recorded. As well as t...

Growing up in a household of food-loving Italian-Americans, Marissa Landrigan was always a black sheep—she barely knew how to boil water for pasta....

A radical new reading of eighteenth-century British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus, which recovers diverse ideas about subsistence production and e...

James Beard Foundation Book Award Nominee Winner of the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Book Award, Association of Black Sociologists Winner of the C. Wrigh...

This is a comprehensive collection of authentic recipes, some 500 in all, for drinks and dishes that more than 150 American authors since the la...

Nearly half of all farmland in the U.S. is owned by women--295,000 of them. In an enterprise traditionally dominated by men, they are taking a l...