Food & Society

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...

Revised for the current text edition, the Lab Manual for Herren's EXPLORING AGRISCIENCE, Fifth Edition, includes plenty of fun, hands-on experiment...

Thoroughly revised, the Laboratory Manual for Herren's THE SCIENCE OF AGRICULTURE: A BIOLOGICAL APPROACH, Fifth Edition, provides engaging exercise...

Charting the political, social, and environmental history of efforts to conserve crop diversity.   Many people worry that we're losing genetic dive...

In this lively and fascinating book, a guilt-ridden, bacon-loving journalist finds work at an industrial pig farm as he researches the long and tor...

What is the role of quality in contemporary capitalism? How is a product as ordinary as a bag of tea judged for its quality? In her innovative stud...