Food & Society

In recent years, food writers and historians have begun to retell the story of southern food. Heirloom ingredients and traditional recipes have b...

an interesting and timely bookThe chapters are tied nicely together and the ethnographic material solid.  It is an inspired and well-founded study ...

Winner, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards - Food - Food Heritage - USANominee, Book Award in Food Issues and Advocacy, James Beard FoundationThe Itali...

Winner, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards - Food - Food Heritage - USANominee, Book Award in Food Issues and Advocacy, James Beard FoundationThe Itali...

In recent years labor relations have altered significantly and new and more serious forms of labor marginalization and control have emerged. This b...

Cooking is thinking! The spatter of sauce in a pan, a cook's subtle deviation from a recipe, the careful labour of cooking for loved ones: these a...

This book explores the origins and significance of the French concept of terroir, demonstrating that the way the French eat their food and drink th...

Beyond Hummus and Falafel is the story of how food has come to play a central role in how Palestinian citizens of Israel negotiate life and a share...

A Geography of Digestion is a highly original exploration of the legacy of the Kellogg Company, one of America's most enduring and storied food ent...

This collection of essays provides an overview of new scholarship on recipe books, one of the most popular non-fiction printed texts in, and one of...

For the first time in human history, more people inhabit urban than rural areas. Investigating the experience of hunger and malnutrition in urban s...

Amid growing interest in food and drink as an academic discipline in recent years, this volume is the first to provide insight into eating and drin...

For 30 years, since the publication of her landmark book The Sexual Politics of Meat, Carol J. Adams and her readers have continued to document and...

For hundreds of years consumers and scholars have acknowledged that food is affected by the same rapid shifts in taste and consumption as clothing....

Fermented Foods serves up the history and science behind some of the worlds most enduring food and drink. It begins with wine, beer and other heady...

Taste is recognized as one of the most evocative senses. The flavors of food play an important role in identity, memory, emotion, desire, and aver...

The Food and Folklore Reader is the first comprehensive introduction to folklore methods and concepts relevant to food. Mapping the study of food ...

Magazine articles, news items, and self-improvement books tell us that our daily food choices whether we opt for steak or vegetarian, a TV dinner ...

Cheese is alive, and alive with meaning. Heather Paxson's beautifully written anthropological study of American artisanal cheesemaking tells the st...

Join award-winning writer James Steen for a feast of facts, stories, recipes and tips about food and drink.Delving into forgotten corners of gastro...

Join award-winning writer James Steen for a feast of facts, stories, recipes and tips about food and drink.Delving into forgotten corners of gastro...

Across the United States marginalized communities are organizing to address social, economic, and environmental inequities through building communi...

Joan Didion (1934-2021) was one of America’s most iconic writers and intellectuals. Her reportage and essays, as well as her novels and memoirs pro...