Food & Society

Take your taste buds on an appetizing adventure with this mouth-watering collection of the best and most-authentic street food dishes. Long gone a...

This edited volume serves as an overview and introduction to the conceptual apparatus of Norbert Elias for newcomers, while also outlining current ...

In Intersections of Race, Gender, and Precarity: Navigating Insecurities in an American City, Stephanie Baran argues that when it comes to assistan...

The restaurant industry is one of the few places in America where workers from lower-class backgrounds can rise to positions of power and prestige....

The restaurant industry is one of the few places in America where workers from lower-class backgrounds can rise to positions of power and prestige....

The Creole praline arrived in New Orleans with the migration of formerly enslaved people fleeing Louisiana plantations after the Civil War. Black w...

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, su...

The hidden history of an economic and cultural crisis that is threatening our very food supplythe disappearance of the American farmer. An anthem t...

'This book is full of tasty morsels . . . A great present for the snacky gourmand.'Pandora Sykes'An absolute tour de force . . . I devoured it unti...

This book is the first of its kind to explore how women challenge the powerful sociocultural and gendered phenomenon of diet culture across the bro...

Eating is generally understood as a human need that people satisfy in diverse ways. Eating, however, is also an English word. Other languages, usin...

Eating is generally understood as a human need that people satisfy in diverse ways. Eating, however, is also an English word. Other languages, usin...

Home cooking is crucial to our lives but it is not necessary to our survival. Over the past century, it has become an everyday choice even though i...

For McDonalds, the Chicken McNugget, the flagship product of further processed chicken, represented a once-in-a-generation innovation, a snack item...

For McDonalds, the Chicken McNugget, the flagship product of further processed chicken, represented a once-in-a-generation innovation, a snack item...

Beautifully written, artfully illustrated, and filled with wonderful recipes Tom Parker Bowles, food writer and criticA literary-inspired cookbook ...

Farming whether domestic crops, forestry, fish or livestock is one of the pillars of human civilization, dating back to the early settlements of ...

Singapore is renowned for the delightful cuisines that can be found in its hawker centres. Travellers herald from across the globe simply to taste ...

Singapore is renowned for the delightful cuisines that can be found in its hawker centres. Travellers herald from across the globe simply to taste ...

A world history of citrus, from the art of classical antiquity to the science of the modern era. Mandarin, citron, pomelo, bergamot, kumquat Citru...

What does it mean when a food-rich society has thousands going hungry? How do food and politics intersect? How can our food habits reconnect us w...

The Halal sector is one of the fastest growing segments of the meat industry due to rapid expansion in Muslim population across Europe, and the fac...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORTNUM & MASON DEBUT FOOD BOOK AWARD 2023_______________'A beautiful book: compelling...

A bold redefinition of historical inquiry based on the cropscapethe people, creatures, technologies, ideas, and places that surround a crop   Human...

Battle lines have long been drawn over how food is produced, what food is made available to whom, and how best to protect consumers from risky or u...

Drawing on ethical and sociological theories of food, this book presents a new approach to food education that moves beyond nutrition-centred educa...

This book takes you on a journey through the hidden dangers lurking in your plate, providing a deeper understanding of the risks associated with fo...

Essential essays on the environmental impacts of factory farms on public health.The rapidand relatively recentconcentration of food animal producti...

Culinary Man and the Kitchen Brigade offers an exploration of the field of normative subjectivity circulated within western fine dining traditions,...

This collection presents critical and action-oriented approaches to addressing food systems inequities across places, spaces, and scales. With case...