Food & Society

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...

This timely collection of 15 original essays written by expert scientists the world over addresses the relationships between human population growt...

The rapid expansion of the halal industry and its markets has occurred not only in the heavily Islamic regions of Southeast Asia and the Middle Eas...

 An insightful map of the landscape of social meals, Eating Together: Food, Friendship, and Inequality argues that the ways in which Americans eat ...

A rallying cry to link the food justice movement to broader social justice debates The United States is a nation of foodies and food activists, man...

GOURMAND AWARD WINNER 2023, BEST ILLUSTRATEDA delightfully illustrated selection of 100 commonly used Egyptian food expressions Can you guess what ...

This edited collection showcases an international mix of activist scholars who maintain that a vegan studies perspective is an important addition t...

2024 Jon Gjerde Prize Winner for best book in Midwestern History After the War of 1812 and the removal of the regions Indigenous peoples, the Ameri...

'In the black out visit a bright inn.' So read stickers on the windows of Watney's pubs all over London. In Brewing for Victory, Brian Glover shows...

A lighthearted and informative narrative about the history of herring and our love affair with the silver darlings. Scots like to smoke or salt th...

The Gourmand's Egg Book As Dalís muse, Hitchcocks nightmare, and humble ingredient, the eternal egg weaves a fascinating tale through the history ...

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...

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

This book explores the growing significance of veganism. It brings together important theoretical and empirical insights to offer a historical and ...

This is the story of the women, men, boys, and girls who hawked oysters, cherries, cabbages, and pies on London's streets, feeding the capital thro...

Race and Repast: Foodscapes in Twentieth-Century Southern Literature examines the literary foodscapes of the American Southfrom Jim Crowera kitchen...

2018 Morris Rosenberg Award, DC Sociological Society In recent years, questions such as what are kids eating? and whos feeding our kids? have spark...

2018 Morris Rosenberg Award, DC Sociological Society In recent years, questions such as what are kids eating? and whos feeding our kids? have spark...

We are all hungry for meaningful connection, but most of us don't have the time to cook complicated meals or plan big gatherings. What we need are ...

'Charming, important . . . a journey of discovery' TelegraphOver the course of a year, Robert Penn learns how to plant, harvest, thresh and mill hi...

This compelling study explores food programs initiated by the British government across two centuries, from the workhouses of the 1830s to the post...

A REISSUE OF THE 2018 COOKBOOK'Jane knows what we want: dishes that are easy, great to look at and eat, and made with ingredients you can find' Pru...

Los Angeles Times Best Cookbooks 2020 Saveur Magazine Favorite Cookbook to Gift Esquire Magazine Best Cookbooks of 2020 The book weaves in refle...

This book provides a comprehensive theological framework for assessing the significance of eating. Drawing on diverse theological, philosophical, a...