Food & Society

This book provides a comprehensive theological framework for assessing the significance of eating. Drawing on diverse theological, philosophical, a...

In 2021, the world of cooking lost a legendary figure. Albert Roux, together with his brother Michel, transformed the way we eat, cook and apprecia...

Country & Townhouse's Best Book for Christmas, 2018A delectable anthology celebrating the finest writing on wine.In this richly literary anthol...

Hot dogs. Poor people created them. Rich people found a way to charge fifteen dollars for them. Theyre high culture, theyre low culture, theyre spo...

Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian and the Dachau concentration camp had an organic herb garden. Vegetarianism, organic farming, and other such practice...

School feeding is the world's most extensive safety net programme, with nearly one in two primary school children receiving a meal every school day...

Women Redefining the Experience of Food Insecurity: Life Off the Edge of the Table is about understanding the relationship between food insecurity ...

Everyday foodways are a powerful means of drawing boundaries between social groups and defining who we are and where we belong. This book draws upo...

Examines local food movement activism in a period of increasing climate chaos and neoliberal crisis, economic inequalities and political divisions ...

The future of our food depends on tiny seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, the great bot...

As beef and cattle production progressed in nineteenth-century America, the cow emerged as the nations representative food animal and earned a cult...

Reconnect with the seasons in Britain and Ireland with this month-by-month guide to the world around us - including key dates, tide tables and gard...

'An absolutely riveting book - reading it makes you intelligent, full of brilliant anecdotes - and very hungry indeed.' - Richard Curtis 'This bril...

Offering diverse perspectives on Hawaiis food system, this book addresses themes of place and identity across time. From early Western contact to t...

'A book of wonders' Bee Wilson, Sunday Times Books of the YearWinner of the Wainwright Prize 2022 - Eating to Extinction is an astonishing journey ...

What makes chocolate so alluring? Why is it the inspiration for endless culinary creativity? Sam Bilton explores our complex relationship with this...

When Katherine Miller was first asked to train chefs to be advocates, she thought the idea was ludicrous. This was a group known for short tempers ...

America's food system is broken, harming family farmers, workers, the environment, and our health. But it doesn't have to be this way. Here, brilli...

Preparing and consuming food is an integral part of identity formation, which in contemporary China embodies tension between fast-forward moderniza...

This book explores the controversial and misunderstood world of sexualised weight gain known as feederism. Conversations with over 20 feeders and f...