Food & Society

This book examines the challenges and impacts of poor diets and nutrition from current food systems and the potential contribution of biodiversity ...

This book provides a historical and analytical account of changes in the seafood supply chain in Britain from the mid-twentieth century to the pres...

Although the religious and ethical consideration of food and eating is not a new phenomenon, the debate about food and eating today is distinctly d...

For thousands of years we have grown, cooked and traded food, and over that time much has changed. Where once we subsisted on gritty, bland grains,...

These essays on Food and Philosophy were written over several decades. Not only philosophers and historians but individuals who have an ongoing int...

Translated from Japanese, this study exposes English-language scholars to the complexities of the relationship between food, culture, the environme...

What makes fad diets so appealing to so many people? How did there get to be so many different ones, often with eerily similar prescriptions? Why d...

How Judaism and food are intertwined Judaism is a religion that is enthusiastic about food. Jewish holidays are inevitably celebrated through eati...

Deft and era-spanning . . . Uta Seeburg compresses a vast culinary history into a collection thats equal parts lively and illuminating. Mayukh Sen...

In addition to providing a comprehensive overview of the agricultural industry and industry-based sciences, the Precision Exams Edition of Burtons ...

In The Poetics of Fire, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and Chicano author Victor M. Valle posits the chile as a metaphor for understanding the s...

Acclaimed chef writer Andrew Friedman introduces readers to all the people and processes that come together in a single restaurant dish, creating a...

India imposes stringent criminal penalties, including life imprisonment in some states, for cow slaughter, based on a Hindu ethic of revering the c...

Bittersweet, A Story of Food and Yemen is a captivating exploration of Yemens rich culinary heritage. Authored by Bangladeshi photographer, Sayed A...

Gumbo adorns menus from New Orleans to New York to New Delhi, appearing in variations such as chicken and sausage gumbo, gombo z'herbes, and seafoo...

The Great Indian Food Trip is an entertaining, erudite adventure of eating, drinking and travelling. This is how Zac OYeah has come to understand t...

A wave of innovation driven by the convergence of digital and molecular technologies is transforming food production and ways of eating in the US, ...

In World War Two, 19 million people died in the conflicts across the globe. Yet in those same years, more than 20 million died from starvation and ...

Two structuring concepts have predominated in discussions concerning how Middle Eastern men enact their identity culturally: domination and patriar...

'Brilliant and original ... From slow feasts to fast food, Linford shows that, no matter what we are cooking, time is of the essence' - Bee Wilso...

Vegan or carnivore? Vegetarian or gluten-free? Keto or Mediterranean? Fasting or Paleo? Our relationship to food is filled with confusion and insec...

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

Struggling for Time examines how time is used as a mechanism of control by the Israeli state and a site of mundane resistance among Palestinian ag...