Food & Society

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...

"The river was in God's hands, the cows in ours." So passed the days on Indian Farm, a dairy operation on 700 acres of rich Illinois bottomland. In...

The Visible Hands That Feed provides crucial insights into the rifts and regularities that are characteristic of today’s food systems. These insigh...

Early modern dietaries are prose texts recommending the best way to maintain physical and psychological well-being. Three sixteenth-century dietari...

Early modern dietaries are prose texts recommending the best way to maintain physical and psychological well-being. Three sixteenth-century dietari...

Whether perusing a recipe or learning what a literary character eats, readers approach a text differently when reading about food. Read My Plate: T...

For decades, NGOs targeting world hunger focused on ensuring that adequate quantities of food were being sent to those in need. In the 1990s, the i...

Learn about one of the most impactful distilleries in American history in this comprehensive tale  Buffalo, Barrels, & Bourbon tells the fascin...

From farm-to-table restaurants and farmers markets, to support for fair trade and food sovereignty, movements for food-system change hold the promi...

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...

Fray Francisco Atanasio Domínguez Award from the Historical Society of New Mexico New Mexico-Arizona Book Award Finalist in History For much of the...

This book argues that vegetarian and vegan people should be guaranteed the right to eat according to their beliefs. The author claims that the righ...

The act of eating defines and redefines borders. What constitutes “American” in our cuisine has always depended on a liberal crossing of borders, f...

The Retail and Food Services sectors play an important role in Singapore. They add to the vibrancy of the economy and contribute to the social well...

Winner of the 2023 Association for the Study of Food and Society Book Prize for Edited Volume Image by image and hashtag by hashtag, Instagram has ...

Plant-based and cell-cultured meat, milk, and egg producers aim to replace industrial food production with animal-free fare that tastes better, cos...

Plant-based and cell-cultured meat, milk, and egg producers aim to replace industrial food production with animal-free fare that tastes better, cos...

Reinventing Rural is a collection of original research papers that examine the ways in which rural people and places are changing in the context of...