Food & Society

In barely three generations the Spanish diet has changed beyond recognition. The traditional concerns around nutritional health and scarcity have b...

How we live is shaped by how we eat. You can see this in the vastly different approaches to growing, preparing and eating food around the world - f...

On a fragile planet with spreading food insecurity, food waste is a political and ethical problem. In Truffles and Trash, Kelly Alexander reveals i...

Apples, a common New England crop, have been called the United States' most endangered food. Texas Longhorn cattle are categorised at critical risk...

Told through the Kate Hopkins' travels in Europe and the U.S., Sweet Tooth is a first-hand account of her obsession with candy and a detailed look ...

Chinas food security has never failed to attract the publics attention. Feeding Chinas large population has always been a huge challenge. The lates...

This book provides an interdisciplinary discussion of animals as a source of food within the context of tourism. It focuses on a range of ethical i...

The field of food studies has been growing rapidly over the last thirty years and has exploded since the turn of the millennium. Scholars from an a...

Focusing on the socialization of the human use of other animals as resources in contemporary Western society, this book explores the cultural repro...

The humanitarian crises caused by civil conflicts and wars in Africa are too great in scope for an adequate and effective continental response. The...

Now fully rewritten and entirely updated to reflect the pressing problems of today, Animal Liberation Now presents the definitive case for radicall...

This volume explores the contents, forms, and actors that characterize current opposition to the corporate neoliberal agri-food regime. Designed to...

This cross-disciplinary volume brings together diverse perspectives on childrens food occasions inside and outside of the home across different geo...

Whether valorized as the heartland or derided as flyover country, the American Midwest became instantly notorious when COVID-19 infections skyrocke...

In the late fourteenth century, the Iberian Peninsula was home to three major religions which coexisted in relative peace. Over the next two centur...

Thousands of people in dozens of countries took to the streets when world food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011. What does the persistence of popular...

The first major synthesis of African archaeobotany in decades, this book focuses on Paleolithic archaeobotany and the relationship between agricult...

As awareness of the commodification of food for profit at the expense of our health and the planet grows, this book foregrounds the communicative d...

From antique bottles to closely guarded recipes and treasured historic architecture, breweries have a special place in American history. This fasci...

In this sweeping chronicle of guaranaa glossy-leaved Amazonian vine packed with more caffeine than any other plantSeth Garfield develops a wide-ran...

Gain a practical understanding of soil properties and the soil management techniques most important for the effective use of soils with SOIL SCIENC...

Practical, easy to understand, and up-to-date, INTRODUCTION TO FORESTRY SCIENCE, Third Edition provides readers with a comprehensive overview of th...

Cuisine and Culture presents a multicultural and multiethnic approach that draws connections between major historical events and how and why these ...

An award-winning authors powerful exploration of the remarkable women driving transformative change in Americas food system Its well known that ou...

In mythology, art history and religious iconography, the apple has been imbued with every imaginable human desire. It has been a symbol of love and...

English summary: This is the first Spanish textbook to use food as the vantage point from which to learn language and acquire cultural literacy. It...

Hungry is an excellent text about peoples methods of adapting to modern life; it encompasses psychology, generational identities, and marketing in ...

Our planet is in the grip of an obesity pandemic.More than a billion people worldwide are overweight and over 600 million are obese. We live in an ...

PERCEPTIVE SOLUTIONS for those who want to know how NUTRITIOUS FOOD can be grown. Practical SURVIVAL guide for FARMERS to show them how to meet the...