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...