Food & Society

Finalist for the Guild of Food Writers First Book Award Five Star Finalist in the Spring 2023 Readers Choice Book Awards Finalist for the 2023 Page...

Why do so many Americans drive for miles each autumn to buy a vegetable that they are unlikely to eat? While most people around the world eat pumpk...

A rich, long-term ethnography of women seafood traders in Mexico. The shrimp ladies, locally known as changueras in southern Sinaloa, Mexico, sell ...

From whiskey in the American Revolution to Spam in WWII, food reveals a great deal about the society in which it exists. Selecting 15 foods that re...

This edited collection synthesises recent research into smell and taste and relates it to eating behaviour. Olfaction - the sense of smell - togeth...

Tracing developments from the classical period to the early industrial revolution and beyond, Anne Murcott provides us with an accessible and enter...

A first-of-its-kind theoretical overview and practical guide to wargame design Government, industry, and academia need better tools to explore thr...

Development is not sustainable if it fails to create and support food and nutrition secure and self-supporting neighborhoods. Development impacts m...

Collins Big Cat Arabic Reading Programme is a guided reading series for ages 3 to 11. The series is structured with reference to the learning progr...

This book examines Soviet agriculture in post-1945 Hungary. It demonstrates how the agrarian lobby, a development following the 1956 revolution, le...

WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON'S DEBUT FOOD BOOK AWARD'A tender and beautifully written tour-de-force on love, grief, hope and cake. If this is ...

This refreshing work offers a distinctly agrarian reframing of spiritual practices to address todays most pressing social and ecological concerns. ...

Literature, like food, is, in Terry Eagletons words, endlessly interpretable, and food, like literature, looks like an object but is actually a rel...

This book reconstructs and extends sociological approaches to the understanding of food consumption. It identifies new ways to approach the explana...

New Fifth Edition Now Available!Principles of Meat Science provides a comprehensive overview that includes the latest discoveries and principles th...

Foundations of Agricultural Education, Fourth Edition is designed for college students in agricultural education and others interested in agricultu...

A provocative vision. Sunday Times In 2017, the number of people going hungry in the world increased, for the first time in a decade. Pesticide-re...

Women across the Caribbean have been writing, reading, and exchanging cookbooks since at least the turn of the nineteenth century. These cookbooks ...

Women across the Caribbean have been writing, reading, and exchanging cookbooks since at least the turn of the nineteenth century. These cookbooks ...

András Koerner is the author of a number of critically acclaimed, award-winning CEU Press titles on the cultural history of Hungarian Jews and Jewi...

Christine Hippert examines buying food on credit in corner stores in Cabarete, an international tourism destination in the Dominican Republic and a...

Confronting the role of foodie culture in gentrificationHaving discovered the flavors of barbacoa, bibimbap, bánh mi, sambusas, and pupusas, white ...

'A wholly pleasing book, which offers a tasty side dish to anyone exploring the narrative history of the British Empire' Max Hastings, Sunday Times...

Dedicated to the growing field of food and drink tourism and culinary engagement, Sally Everett offers a multi-disciplinary approach to the subject...

From breakfast to bedtime the food that we eat and the natural world that we all share have the power to nourish our bodies, nurture our growth and...

The Mallet Ranch, from its founding to the present, has followed the arc of most Texas ranches. It has experienced booms and busts, and its owners ...

'Hilarious, informative, enlightening, instructive ... It's the funniest book I've read all year' - Chris EvansYou're About to Die. What Would Your...

'Life-changing' DAVINA McCALL'A must-read' Dr RUPY AUJLA'Fascinating' NIGELLA LAWSON'Empowering' LIZ EARLE**AS HEARD ON THE DIARY OF A CEO PODCAST*...

Treating patients with eating disorders (ED) is a notoriously challenging undertaking. Patients tend to be medically compromised and have a deep am...

Food plays a central role in the production of culture and is likewise a powerful resource for the representation and organization of social order....