Agriculture & Food

Over the space of a few generations, women's relationship with food has changed dramatically. Yet - despite significant advances in gender equality - food and femininity remain closely connected in the public imagination as well as the emotional lives of...

This book addresses the relevance of geographical indication (GI) as a tool for local and socio-economic development and democratization of agri-food, with case studies from Asia, Europe and the Americas.A geographical indication is a sign used on...

Beginning to End Hunger presents the story of Belo Horizonte, home to 2.5 million people and one of the world's most successful city food security programs. Since its Municipal Secretariat for Food Security was founded in 1993, malnutrition in Belo...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635573138Author Tom PhilpottFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 508g

As the era of thriving, small-scale fishing communities continues to wane across waters that once teamed with (a way of) life, Fiona McCormack opens a window into contemporary fisheries quota systems, laying bare how neoliberalism has entangled itself in...

India imposes stringent criminal penalties, including life imprisonment in some states, for cow slaughter, based on a Hindu ethic of revering the cow as sacred. And yet India is among the world's leading producers of beef, leather, and milk, industries...

Food trucks announcing "halal" proliferate in many urban areas but how many non-Muslims know what this means, other than cheap lunch? Here Middle Eastern historians Febe Armanios and Bogac Ergene provide an accessible introduction to halal (permissible)...

Food Words is a series of provocative essays on some of the most important keywords in the emergent field of food studies, focusing on current controversies and on-going debates. Words like 'choice' and 'convenience' are often used as explanatory...

An award-winning environmental journalist introduces a new generation of farmers and scientists on the frontlines of the next green revolution.When Malthus famously outlined the brutal relationship between food and population, he never imagined the...

In 2013, a Dutch scientist unveiled the world's first laboratory-created hamburger. Since then, the idea of producing meat, not from live animals but from carefully cultured tissues, has spread like wildfire through the media. Meanwhile, cultured meat...

What is meat? Is it simply food to consume, or a metaphor for our own bodies? Can "bloody" vegan burgers, petri dish beef, live animals, or human milk be categorized as meat? In pursuing these questions, the contributors to Meat! trace the shifting...

Who controls what we eat? This book reveals how dominant corporations, from the supermarket to the seed industry, exert control over contemporary food systems. It analyzes the strategies these firms are using to reshape society in order to further...

In Grocery, bestselling author Michael Ruhlman offers incisive commentary on America's relationship with its food and investigates the overlooked source of so much of it-the grocery store. In a culture obsessed with food-how it looks, what it tastes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770414914Author Joshna MaharajFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

Winner of the 2019 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Food Writing & Cookbooks Andras Koerner refuses to accept that the world of pre-Shoah Hungarian Jewry and its cuisine should disappear almost without a trace and feels compelled to...

Most Africans live in rural areas and derive their incomes from farming; but because African governments follow policies that are adverse to most farmers' interests, these countries fail to produce enough food to feed their populations. Markets and...

What is food and why does it matter? Bringing together the most innovative, cutting-edge scholarship and debates, this reader provides an excellent introduction to the rapidly growing discipline of food studies. Covering a wide range of theoretical...

This book is a fascinating history of tea and the spreading of tea throughout the world.Camellia sinensis, commonly known as tea, is grown in tea gardens and estates around the world. A simple beverage served either hot or iced, tea has fascinated and...

Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi explores the history and cultural importance of our most beloved tastes, paying homage to the ingredients that give us daily pleasure, while providing a thoughtful wake-up call to the homogenization that is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788650021Author Lucy GlastenFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Zoodoo PublishingPublisher Zoodoo PublishingWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

This book, written by global experts, provides a comprehensive and topical analysis on the economics of chocolate. While the main approach is economic analysis, there are important contributions from other disciplines, including psychology, history,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865478176Author Samira KawashFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Gerald Diffey has spent four decades immersed in the world of food, wine and hospitality, from early days waiting tables in old English hotels to establishing two of the best places in the world to drink and eat: the award-winning Gerald's Bar in North...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934606Author Micheal O FathartaighFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint WordwellPublisher Wordwell

American eating changed dramatically in the early twentieth century. As food production became more industrialized, nutritionists, home economists, and so-called racial scientists were all pointing Americans toward a newly scientific approach to diet...

Why are so many literary texts preoccupied with food? The Literature of Food explores this question by looking at the continually shifting relationship between two sorts of foods: the real and the imagined. Focusing particularly on Britain and North...

This book presents a novel and systematic social theory of soil, and is representative of the rising interest in 'the material' in social sciences. Bringing together new modes of 'critical description' with speculative practices and methods of inquiry,...

TV cookery shows hosted by celebrity chefs. Meal prep kitchens. Online grocers and restaurant review sites. Competitive eating contests, carnivals and fairs, and junk food websites and blogs. What do all of them have in common? According to authors...

"There is no one better to ask than Marion, who is the leading guide in intelligent, unbiased, independent advice on eating, and has been for decades."--Mark Bittman, author of How to Cook Everything Let's Ask Marion is a savvy and insightful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143127154Author Dan BarberFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767930741Author Robyn O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher...

Beth Hoffman was living the good life: she had a successful career as a journalist and professor, a comfortable home in San Francisco, and plenty of close friends and family. Yet in her late 40s, she and her husband decided to leave the big city and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062288769Author Ted GenowaysFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Harper PaperbacksPublisher Harper PaperbacksWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908931269Author Mike SmallFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Argyll PublishingPublisher Centre for Confidence and Well-BeingWeight(grams)...

Strawberries are big business in California. They are the sixth-highest-grossing crop in the state, which produces 88 percent of the nation's favorite berry. Yet the industry is often criticized for its backbreaking labor conditions and dependence on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781792309281Author Steven McFaddenFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Light and Sound Press, LLCPublisher Light and Sound Press, LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539524Author Robyn MetcalfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439171967Author Tracie McMillanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

Why are people getting fatter in the United States and beyond? Mainstream explanations argue that people simply eat too much "energy-dense" food while exercising too little. By swapping the chips and sodas for fruits and vegetables and exercising more,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781601731562Author Gerry GillespieFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Acres U.S.A., IncPublisher Acres U.S.A., IncWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...