Food & Society

The importance of the banquet in the late Renaissance is impossible to overlook. Banquets showcased a hosts wealth and power, provided an occasion ...

The story of how the emerging food justice movement is seeking to transform the American food system from seed to table. In today''s food system...

This book features 75 delicious dishes for every holiday and celebration. You can discover the classic meals enjoyed by Jewish people at Chanukkah,...

A provocative look at how and what Americans eat and why-a flavorful blend of The Omnivore's Dilemma, Salt Sugar Fat, and Freakonomics that reveals...

Passionate about steak, award-winning food and travel writer Mark Schatzker sets off in a quest for perfection in the art of cooking beef. His odys...

From its obscure Pre-Columbian beginnings in South America to its global popularity today, the story of the potato is one of rags to riches. In Pot...

Made from distilled grape wine and produced in countries spanning the globe, brandy is a spirit loved by many, long associated with refined taste a...

From gnocchi to pierogi to wontons, the dumpling has become synonymous with comfort food around the world in quite different cultures. This book lo...

From the smash of a bottle on the side of a new ship to the pop of a cork at a party, champagne signals celebration, fun and camaraderie. Bubbly, a...

Tide and Current chronicles ten years in the life of author and artist Carol Araki Wyban, during which she lived with, learned about, and came to l...

The Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production AwardsAs concern grows over the environmental costs and ethical imp...

Look at any list of America's top foodie cities and you probably won't find Boise, Idaho or Sitka, Alaska. Yet they are the new face of the food mo...

Eating and drinking are essential to survival. Yet for human animals, they are intrinsically ambivalent, proliferating with ideological, historical...

DELICIOUS PLANT-BASED RECIPES TO WASTE LESS FOOD!Max La Manna, low waste chef and climate activist, bridges the gap between vegan food and waste-fr...

Spanish cuisine is a melting-pot of cultures, flavours and ingredients: Greek and Roman, Jewish, Moorish and Middle Eastern. It has been enriched b...

The updated bestselling guide to laid-back beekeeping for all, naturally! Are you a beginner beekeeper curious about bees or a practicing beekeeper...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Coffee--it's the thing that gets us th...

Just the Tonic is an accessible yet informative history of tonic water: its connections to the major disease malaria, the cure discovered in the bi...

China's food safety system is in crisis. Egregious scandals, as varied as the sale of liquor laced with Viagra and the distribution of fake eggs, r...

2019 Midwest Book Award for Nature 2020 High Plains Book Award Finalist 2020 Silver Nautilus Book Award Winner in Green Living and Sustainability  ...

Why do we like the foods that we do? What happens when we eat not for nutrient intake but for sensory pleasure? How far are our food preferences de...

A provocative vision. Sunday Times In 2017, the number of people going hungry in the world increased, for the first time in a decade. Pesticide-re...

'A galloping journey through thousands of years of Chinese culinary history . . . a timely reminder that the country's modern cuisine is the delici...

Beer and Society: How We Make Beer and Beer Makes Us takes readers on a lively journey through the social, cultural, and economic dimensions of the...

Agriculture is one of the most fundamental human activities. It has kept humans happier and healthier and helped birth modern society as we know it...

A global history of restaurants beyond white tablecloths and ma tre d's, Dining Out presents restaurants both as businesses and as venues for a ran...

Marvin is a contract hog farmer in Iowa. He owns his land, his barn, his tractor, and his animal crates. He has seen profits drop steadily for the ...

We've all been there. One minute you're fast asleep, and in the next you're tumbling from dreams of deserts and demons, into semi-consciousness, mo...

Practical and accessible solutions to our future food crisesBy 2050, we will have ten billion mouths to feed in a world profoundly altered by envir...

The humble soybean is the worlds most grown and most traded oilseed. But it is also a poorly understood crop that is often viewed in extreme terms ...

_________________ Winner of the Guild of Food Writers General Cookbook Award 2020 _________________ A manual for living and a declaration of hope...

It seems that everyone today is fascinated by food. Literature and popular culture prove it. We face an ever-expanding pantry of culinary poems, me...

Take a look at the packaging on a container of milk and you're likely to see bucolic idylls of red barns, green pastures, and happy, well-treated c...