Food & Society

Juicy, crunchy, tart: with its multitude of seeds and juice akin to blood, it's not hard to see why the pomegranate has so appealed to the imaginat...

In the history of food, the tomato is a relative newcomer outside its ancestral home in Mesoamerica. And yet, as we devour pizza by the slice, dip ...

How Veganism Can Save Us will arm you with the truth and set you on a path towards a more sustainable future.Revealing hard truths, animal rights a...

Insightful...empathetic...a thoughtful consideration of a topic that will have a substantial impact on our future.BooklistReadable Feast, Book Awar...

First published in 1920, How to Dine in Style opens a window onto the golden age of elegant dining, where the basic function of ingesting nourishme...

The acclaimed author of A Replacement Life shifts between heartbreak and humor in this gorgeously told recipe-filled memoir. A story of family, imm...

Since the dawn of time oysters have inhabited the earth. Naturally high in essential vitamins and minerals, they are one of the oldest known and mo...

There is more history in a bowl of pasta than in the Colosseum, writes Andreas Viestad in Dinner in Rome. From the table of a classic Roman restaur...

Along with red London buses, bowler hats and cricket, few things are considered more British than fish and chips. Sprinkled with salt and vinegar, ...

Ireland's Green Larder tells the story of food and drink in Ireland, for the first time. From the ancient system of the Céide Fields, established a...

Every year on March 19, Roman Catholic churches and households in and around New Orleans celebrate St. Joseph's Day. As centerpieces of these celeb...

Psyche A. Williams-Forson is one of our leading thinkers about food in America. In Eating While Black, she offers her knowledge and experience to i...

Radio 4's The Food Programme Book of the Year, chosen by Dan Saladino An Irish Times Best Gardening Book 2023 Shortlisted for the Garden Media Gu...

The story of starting and running an organic farmtold by the woman who owned one of the first Community-Supported Agriculture operations in the Upp...

From the influence of 1920s fashion on asparagus growers to an heirloom watermelon lost and found, Taste the State abounds with surprising stories ...

Social media platforms have quickly become integral to most peoples lives, both privately and professionally. This is the first book to illuminate ...

Social media platforms have quickly become integral to most peoples lives, both privately and professionally. This is the first book to illuminate ...

Shortlisted for the André Simon Food & Drink Book Award An intoxicating interconnected history of booze and m...

Food historian Emma Kay tells the story of our centuries-old relationship with herbs. From herbalists of old to contemporary cooking, this book rev...

Picnics are happy occasions and have always been a diversion from every day cares. We think of the picnic as an outdoor meal, set on a blanket, usu...

A groundbreaking synthesis of food studies, archival theory, and early American literature  There is no eating in the archive. This is not only a p...

Le volume reunit les diverses recherches presentees lors du XIeme Colloque International d''Argotologie de Leipzig 2017 par des specialistes de lit...

Food and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century America revolves around the 1840 presidential election when, according to campaign slogans, candidates wer...

As a gold medal award-winning title in the health/medicine/nutrition category of the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards, or IPPY Awards, Food B...

Have you ever wondered what the Tudors ate? What was served at the courtly feasts of Henry VIII, or what kept peasants alive through the harsh wint...

From its eighteenth-century beginnings, the Santa Barbara wine industry achieved success by embracing a 'wine by design' model. In this process far...

Khabaar is a food memoir and personal narrative that braids the global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration, and indenture. ...

Follow a food trail and youll find yourself crisscrossing oceans. Join Nina Mukerjee Furstenau in Green Chili and Other Impostors as she picks thro...

With treasured recipes, Chloe Shorten shows how eating together as a family offers more than a meal: it can nourish relationships and nurture your ...

The Provisions of War examines how soldiers, civilians, communities, and institutions have used food and its absence as both a destructive weapon a...

Demonstrating how individuals can grow their own supply of everyday ingredients to produce affordable and easy meals year-round that are both healt...

Ingredients of Change explores modern Bulgaria's foodways from the Ottoman era to the present, outlining how Bulgarians domesticated and adapted di...

Africa requires a new agricultural transformation that is appropriate for Africa, that recognizes the continent's diverse environments and climates...

Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi explores the history and cultural importance of our most beloved tastes, paying homage to the ingredients tha...