Food & Society

Our food system is broken, and it''s endangering what''s most precious to us: our environment, our health, our soil and water, and our future. In r...

A new generation of food activists has come to believe thatsustainable farming andeating local are the way to solve a host of perceived problems wi...

The third book in the critically acclaimed Wicked & Wise series offers a compelling analysis of the issue of food on an international scale. Fr...

Food is at the heart of Jewish life and culture. It's the subject of many studies, popular and academic, and countless Jewish jokes. From Forbidden...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Baked potatoes, Bombay potatoes, pommes...

Freshly baked bread is an incredibly evocative aroma, feeding in to a shared understanding of this versatile food which has been an important stapl...

Explore the dramatic history of the world''s most expensive spice in Saffron: A Global History. Literally worth their weight in gold, sunset-red sa...

Sushi and sashimi are by now a global sensation and have become perhaps the best known of Japanese foods but they are also the most widely misunder...

How did agriculture come about in the American Southwest? What environmental and social factors led to the cultivation of plants? How, in turn, did...

Ancient brewing traditions and techniques have been passed generation to generation on farms throughout remote areas of northern Europe. With these...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 TASTE CANADA AWARD FOR CULINARY NARRATIVESFeatured on The Sunday Magazine on CBC RadioNearly every culture has a variation...

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

Covering 5,000 years of global history, How Food Made History traces the changing patterns of food production and consumption that have molded econ...

When it comes to food, Americans seem to have a pretty great deal. Our grocery stores are overflowing with countless varieties of convenient produc...

Yoghurt: A Global History is a fascinating look at the rich history of yoghurt, from its earliest awakenings in Neolithic times to the modern-day p...

Whether they make it themselves or just enjoy it with breakfast, people can be passionate about their favourite jam, jelly or marmalade. Award-winn...

More than 80 years before the invention of Coca-Cola, sweet carbonated drinks became popular around the world, provoking remarkably similar argumen...

Few ingredients inspire more high-soaring praise and provoke greater outrage than foie gras. Literally meaning ''fat liver'', foie gras is traditio...

An estimated two billion people worldwide regularly consume insects, yet bugs are rarely eaten in the West. Why are some disgusted at the thought o...

If you find the subject of food to be both vexing and transfixing, youll love What She Ate Elle Did you know that...

Around the world, young brewers, with passion, reverence and commitment, are bringing flavour back to beer after decades of domination by global gi...

The avocado is the iconic food of the twenty-first century. It has gone from a little-known regional food to a social media darling in less than a ...

Pizza, pasta, pesto and olive oil: today, its hard to imagine any supermarket without these items. But how did these foods and many more Italian i...

A Dark History of Tea looks at our long relationship with this most revered of hot beverages. Renowned food historian Seren Charrington-Hollins dig...

Though subjects of enduring interest in their own right, food and drink are still more revealing archaeologically and historically when they amplif...

How did drinking the infusions of a unique plant from China become a vital part of everyday life? This gift book presents an entertaining and illum...

A new approach to foragingRoger Phillips is the legendary godfather of foraging. Drawing upon decades of experience, his knowledge of wild food is ...

What is a truffle? Is it the highest order of fungal foods, above the many mushrooms we eat? Despite its unappetizing appearance, the truffle is wi...