Food & Society

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...

Laura Thompson's grandmother Violet was one of the great landladies. Born in a London pub, she became the first woman to be given a publican's lice...

Against a global backdrop of climate change, widespread food insecurity, deforestation and forest degradation, this paper highlights the role of su...

This thought-provoking, accessible book critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford ch...

This thought-provoking, accessible book critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford ch...

'The Balti' charts the story of one of Britains most iconic dishes, from its birth in 1975 in Birminghams Balti Triangle, through the height of its...

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.Food Rules, Michael Pollan's wise and witty critique of the we...

'I laughed and cried a little, reading the book with Pam's voice in my head. A true inspiration on every level as a memoir and, as only Pam can, te...

In the 1990s a small midwestern American town approved the construction of a massive pork complex, where almost 7 million hogs are birthed, raised,...

In the 1990s a small midwestern American town approved the construction of a massive pork complex, where almost 7 million hogs are birthed, raised,...

Small-scale agricultural producers in the peripheral world are often condescendingly assumed to be a single social class (the peasantry) to be pitt...

Most agricultural production is of commodity or undifferentiated products. Producers suffer from a roller-coaster ride of price swings, over- or un...