Food & Society

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...

Spanning 65,000 years, this book provides a history of food in Australia from its beginnings, with the arrival of the first peoples and their stewa...

An introduction to the burgeoning field of food studies Popular and intellectual interest in food is on the rise. The breadth of concerns surround...

An introduction to the burgeoning field of food studies Popular and intellectual interest in food is on the rise. The breadth of concerns surround...

In the last four decades, food reformers have revealed the ecological and ethical problems of eating animals raised in industrial settings, turning...

Examines local food movement activism in a period of increasing climate chaos and neoliberal crisis, economic inequalities and political divisions ...

In recent years, food studies scholarship has tended to focus on a number of increasingly abstract, largely unquestioned concepts with regard to ho...

The long and pernicious relationship between fast food restaurants and the African American community Today, fast food is disproportionately locate...

In Dining with Madmen: Fat, Food, and the Environment in 1980s Horror, author Thomas Fahy explores America's preoccupation with body weight, proces...

During the First World War, Britain was nearly starved into submission, as so many ships were lost to German submarines. Basics such as butter, egg...

In Frankenstein Was a Vegetarian: Essays on Food Choice, Identity, and Symbolism, Michael Owen Jones tackles topics often overlooked in foodways. A...

This textbook provides an introduction to the socioeconomics of food. Aimed mostly at students of economics and related social sciences, it explain...

Food, Language, and Society: Communication in Japanese Foodways examines the language of food in Japanese through the lens of cognitive science and...

Embark on a journey into the future of nutrition with this edited book. The book explores the remarkable potential of millets as the cornerstone of...

Winner of the 2023 Donald L. Fixico Award for most innovative book on American Indian and Canadian First Nations History from the Western History A...

Europe was formed in the Middle Ages. The merging of the traditions of Roman-Mediterranean societies with the customs of Northern Europe created ne...

The Routledge History of American Foodways provides an important overview of the main themes surrounding the history of food in the Americas from t...

In the early twentieth century, China was stigmatized as the Land of Famine. Meanwhile in Europe and the United States, scientists and industrialis...

In the early twentieth century, China was stigmatized as the Land of Famine. Meanwhile in Europe and the United States, scientists and industrialis...

From corn flakes to pancakes, Breakfast: A History explores this most important meal of the day as a social and gastronomic phenomenon. It explains...

San Francisco is a relatively young city with a well-deserved reputation as a food destination, situated near lush farmland and a busy port. San Fr...

This book charts the history of gin from its arrival in England in the sixteenth century to the present day. In doing so it uses a range of perspec...

 An insightful map of the landscape of social meals, Eating Together: Food, Friendship, and Inequality argues that the ways in which Americans eat ...

Cheese, unlike other foods or culinary ingredients, is not a recently fashionable product. Its roots go back to ancient times. It was one of the fa...

Within a decade, nearly half of all American farmland will change hands as an older generation of farmers steps aside. In their place, a groundswel...

The newest volume of the eclectic biannual anthology from Greenhorns, a grassroots network for recruiting, promoting, and supporting new American f...

This book addresses the health status of both mothers and children, highlighting acute malnutrition through anthropometric indices such as weight-f...

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