Food & Society

Water scarcity is on everyone’s mind. Long taken for granted, water availability has become dependent on economics, politics, and people’s food and...

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

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

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 ha...

First published in 1852, Charles Elmé Francatelli’s A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes features 241 recipes suitable for small budgets. F...

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....

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...

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

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