Food & Society

A key period in the history of food cooperatives that continues to influence how we purchase organic food today Our notions of food co-ops generall...

A key period in the history of food cooperatives that continues to influence how we purchase organic food today Our notions of food co-ops generall...

Farmers' cooperatives are very prevalent in the European Union, where they account for approximately half of agricultural trade and thus are key to...

'A powerful, poignant tale of dieting and despair.' The Times'A moving, brutally honest memoir about what it feels like to be fat-shamed.' Mail on ...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

The objective of publishing this book is to let the general public have a better understanding of the food security situation in China and better c...

In Inventing Authenticity, Carrie Helms Tippen examines the rhetorical power of storytelling in cookbooks to fortify notions of southernness. Tippe...

Migrant workers live in a transnational world that spans the boundaries of nation-states. Yet for undocumented workers, this world is complicated b...

Archaeological case studies that explore the rituals and cultural significance of foods in the southeastern United States.  Understanding and expla...

An Elusive Common details the fraught dynamics of rural life in the arid periphery of southeastern Morocco. Karen Rignall considers whether agraria...

In the hill country of northeast Cambodia, just a few kilometers from the Vietnam border, sits the village of Tang Kadon. This community of hill ri...

A century ago, only local charities existed to feed children. Today 368 million children receive school lunches in 151 countries, in programs suppo...

In the hill country of northeast Cambodia, just a few kilometers from the Vietnam border, sits the village of Tang Kadon. This community of hill ri...

In Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat, historian A. R. Ruis explores the origins of American school meal initiatives to explain why it was (and, to s...

This book chronicles the earliest histories of familiar tropical Asian crops in the ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean, from rice and cotton...

Chocolate and sugar, alcohol and tobacco, peyote and hallucinogenic mushroomsthese seductive substances have been a nexus of desire for both pleasu...

Laguna Lake, the largest lake in the Philippines, supplies Manila's dense urban region with fish and water while operating as a sink for its stormf...