Food & Society

The Sunday Times bestseller *Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize*A New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year'This book calls for nothing less t...

In 1939, Britain was preparing for war. As well as building aeroplanes and digging Anderson shelters, this meant managing food supplies for the hom...

Beignets, Po Boys, gumbo, jambalaya, Antoines. New Orleans celebrated status derives in large measure from its incredibly rich food culture, based ...

Which dessert is named after the heroic third-century Queen Zenobia of Palmyra? Which luscious rice pudding shares its name with the eighth-century...

From prompting a transition from hunter-gatherer to an agrarian lifestyle in ancient Mesopotamia to bankrolling Britain's imperialist conquests, st...

The ancient art of fermenting is finding new popularity again as modern science and trends discover the importance of gut health for overall wellbe...

During the eighteenth century, ladies of high society kept handwritten notes on recipes and it became fashionable to exchange the most successful w...

The food system has changed considerably in the last century. Horsepower was replaced by machine, better crop breeding programs helped usher in the...

Many decisions which have had enormous historical consequences have been made over the dinner table, and have been accompanied (and perhaps in infl...

Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic and culinary story of milk and al...

**Wine and Spirits Book of the Year 2017** A fascinating look into the world of cheese and its creators. In little more than a century, the driv...

Rapper, chef, and television star Action Bronson is a marijuana superhero, both its champion and devoted consumer, and Stoned Beyond Belief is the ...

What is halal? Does Islam have a particular flavour? Is culture transferred through gastronomy? In this issue we resist intoxication by wine and so...

Though the word vegetarianism was not coined until the mid-nineteenth century, the vegetarian diet has been around as long as man has. Vegetarians ...

For over a century, the banana has been the world's favourite fruit. Quick and easy to eat, tasty and versatile, the banana is a staple of many die...

Winner, 2019 IACP Award for Best Book of the Year in Food MattersNamed one of the Best Food Books of the Year by The New Yorker, Smithsonian, The B...