Food & Society

Over the past century, new farming methods, feed additives, and social and economic structures have radically transformed agriculture around the gl...

In a change from the ubiquitous cup cakes and traditional cake books, The Global Bakery has gathered together over 60 recipes of cakes from all aro...

In this revelatory work, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson shows how food affects our moral selves, our health, and our planet. Masson investigates how den...

We may talk of grand feasts and fancy dinners, but most of the time, if we are honest, most of us are eating sandwiches. We snatch them at work and...

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? In Hindu scripture, the world began as an egg. Laid by a swan floating on the waters of chaos, after a ye...

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From almonds and pecans to pistachios, cashews and macadamias, nuts are as basic as food gets - just pop them out of the shell and into your mout...

Antelope and porcupines in Africa, feral cats and wild goats in Australia and deer, pheasants and rabbits in the USA and Europe are just a few of t...

From meatball po'boys to Creole red gravy, the influence of Sicilian foodways permeates New Orleans, one of America's greatest food cities. Nana's ...

....a brilliant marriage of historical picture research, well-chosen recipes, and historical narrative... Taste ...the best single treatment ...

The Table Comes First is at once a celebration of the rituals of eating - the scene of families, friends, lovers coming together, or breaking apart...

By the Antebellum period, rice had dominated the local economic, political, and social patterns of South Carolina's Lowcountry for nearly two hu...

Whether you call them franks, wieners, or red hots, hot dogs are as American as apple pie, but how did these little links become icons of American ...

Chocolate has beguiled us for millennia. From the spiced drinks sipped by the elite in ancient Mesoamerica to the artisan bars spiked with intrigui...

There is a new cookbook in town. Not just another. This one has the longest recipe to make. Not challenging enough? Edible art and music is possibl...

Inspiring the global fight to revolutionize the way food is grown, distributed, and eaten. In the almost thirty years since Carlo Petrini began th...

Welsh Food Stories explores more than two thousand years of history to discover the rich but forgotten heritage of Welsh foods - from oysters to ci...

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...

In his new history of food, acclaimed historian Massimo Montanari traces the development of medieval tastes-both culinary and cultural-from raw mat...

Marion Nestle, acclaimed author of Food Politics, now tells the gripping story of how, in early 2007, a few telephone calls about sick cats set off...

Through the sharing of food, people feel entitled to inquire into one another''''s lives and ponder one another''''s states in relation to their...

Combining thought-provoking graphic imagery with truly alarming information culled from some of the most authoritative sources around the world, Th...

If you have ever marvelled at a flawless slice of cherry pie in a television bake-off and wondered if you could re-create it at home, BraveTart is ...

Before Julia Child introduced the American housewife to Frances cuisine bourgeoise, before Alice Waters built her Berkeley shrine to local food, be...

A rich, salty, and steaming bowl of ramen noodle soup climbed its way onto the international culinary scene and, from Tokyo to New York, is now a s...

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...

In this Very Short Introduction, Prof Lord John Krebs provides a brief history of human food, from our remote ancestors 3 million years ago to the ...

An agricultural revolution is sweeping the land. Appreciation for high-quality food, often locally grown, an awareness of the fragility of our farm...

An exploration into the psychology of eating in todays unprecedented first world pantry of abundance, access and excess, Why You Eat What You Eat e...

Never before have we had so much information available to us about food and health. Theres GAPS, paleo, detox, gluten-free, alkaline, the sugar con...

A delicious taste of the secret, exciting and often dangerous history of illicit spirits; Britain has always been a nation of enthusiastic drinkers...

A simple design object to overcome food scarcity. The sausage is one of mankind's first-ever designed food items. A paragon of efficient butchery,...