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On Gold Hill: A Personal History of Wheat, Farming, and Family, from Punjab to California

On Gold Hill: A Personal History of Wheat, Farming,...

Author: Jaclyn Moyer
ISBN: 9780807045305
Format: Hardback
$65.00

"""A young South Asian American woman's story of reconnecting with her identity, family, and heritage through sustainable...  Read More >>

Cultivating Livability: Food, Class, and the Urban Future in Bengaluru

Cultivating Livability: Food, Class, and the Urban Future...

Author: Camille Frazier
ISBN: 9781517914998
Format: Paperback
$49.99

What urban food networks reveal about middle class livability in times of transformation In recent years, the...  Read More >>

Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

Author: Fuchsia Dunlop
ISBN: 9780141997216
Format: Paperback
$27.99

"An NPR 2023 ""Books We Love"" Pick • A Food & Wine Best Food of 2023 • A Financial Times Best Food and Drink Book...  Read More >>

Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA, and the Politics of Food Sovereignty

Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA, and the Politics...

Author: Rowan Lubbock
ISBN: 9780820357942
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Based on extensive fieldwork in Venezuela, Cultivating Socialism provides the first in-depth study of the ways in...  Read More >>

How Would You Like Your Mammoth?: 12,000 Years of Culinary History in 50 Bite-Size Essays

How Would You Like Your Mammoth?: 12,000 Years of Culinary...

Author: Uta Seeburg ,  Max Miller
ISBN: 9781803997322
Format: Hardback
$39.99

This culinary romp through 50 dishes that shaped human history will tickle the tastebuds of every food lover  Read More >>

Struggling for Time: Environmental Governance and Agrarian Resistance in Israel/Palestine

Struggling for Time: Environmental Governance and Agrarian...

Author: Natalia Gutkowski
ISBN: 9781503637726
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Time is central to agriculture, in growing seasons, harvesting cycles, and market temporalities. The mediation of...  Read More >>

Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA, and the Politics of Food Sovereignty

Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA, and the Politics...

Author: Rowan Lubbock
ISBN: 9780820357959
Format: Hardback
$303.47

Based on extensive fieldwork in Venezuela, Cultivating Socialism provides the first in-depth study of the ways in...  Read More >>

Struggling for Time: Environmental Governance and Agrarian Resistance in Israel/Palestine

Struggling for Time: Environmental Governance and Agrarian...

Author: Natalia Gutkowski
ISBN: 9781503636828
Format: Hardback
$248.99

Time is central to agriculture, in growing seasons, harvesting cycles, and market temporalities. The mediation of...  Read More >>

Companion to Pakistani Cuisine

Companion to Pakistani Cuisine

Author: Shanaz Ramzi (Chief Executive Officer, Chief Executive Officer, StarLinks PR and Events)
ISBN: 9789697343096
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Pakistans diverse cuisine has been influenced by its rich history and varied topography. With a cuisine that is...  Read More >>

Fleischwissen: Zur Verdinglichung Des Lebendigen in Globalisierten Markten

Fleischwissen: Zur Verdinglichung Des Lebendigen in...

Author: Gunther Hirschfelder ,  Lars Winterberg
ISBN: 9783525302538
Format: Hardback
$213.84

Fleischproduktion und Fleischkonsum stehen seit Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts zunehmend in der Kritik. Gesundheit, Tierethik...  Read More >>

Space and Order in Antebellum American Temperance

Space and Order in Antebellum American Temperance

Author: Ferdinand Nyberg (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany)
ISBN: 9781350326514
Format: Hardback
$303.60

Taking a spatial approach to the history of alcohol and temperance in America, this book charts how temperance discourse...  Read More >>

Exhibiting Jewish Culinary Culture

Exhibiting Jewish Culinary Culture

Author: András Koerner
ISBN: 9789633867204
Format: Paperback
$54.21

"András Koerner is the author of a number of critically acclaimed, award-winning CEU Press titles on the cultural...  Read More >>

The Harlequin Eaters: From Food Scraps to Modernism in Nineteenth-Century France

The Harlequin Eaters: From Food Scraps to Modernism...

Author: Janet Beizer
ISBN: 9781517915902
Format: Paperback
$54.99

How representations of the preparation, sale, and consumption of leftovers in nineteenth-century urban France link...  Read More >>

Food Margins: Lessons from an Unlikely Grocer

Food Margins: Lessons from an Unlikely Grocer

Author: Cathy Stanton
ISBN: 9781625348050
Format: Paperback
$71.15

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Kneeling Before Corn: Recuperating More-than-Human Intimacies on the Salvadoran Milpa

Kneeling Before Corn: Recuperating More-than-Human Intimacies...

Author: Mike Anastario ,  Elena Salamanca
ISBN: 9780816553372
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Focuses on the intimate relations that develop between plants and humans in the milpas of the northern rural region...  Read More >>

On Farms and Rural Communities: An Agricultural Ethic for the Future

On Farms and Rural Communities: An Agricultural Ethic...

Author: Jerry Apps
ISBN: 9781682754641
Format: Paperback
$44.75

A clarion call to recognize the importance of rural farming communities and to build a new agriculture policy for...  Read More >>

Bound to the Fire: How Virginia's Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine

Bound to the Fire: How Virginia's Enslaved Cooks Helped...

Author: Kelley Fanto Deetz
ISBN: 9780813198545
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Bound to the Fire not only uncovers their rich and complex stories and illuminates their role in plantation culture,...  Read More >>

FAO at 75 (Chinese Edition)

FAO at 75 (Chinese Edition)

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
ISBN: 9789251334195
Format: Paperback
$115.50

Seventy-five years down the line, FAO's name, ambition and spirit remain: everything else has changed, and will...  Read More >>

Foodscapes of the Anthropocene: Literary Perspectives from Asia

Foodscapes of the Anthropocene: Literary Perspectives...

Author: Hannes Bergthaller ,  Hannes Bergthaller
ISBN: 9783631847060
Format: Hardback
$98.32

Food is one of the decisive issues of the Anthropocene. This volume examines how writers and artists from Asia have...  Read More >>

I Fichi a Raggi X

I Fichi a Raggi X

Author: Donatella Lippi ,  Jacopo Nori
ISBN: 9788859623809
Format: Hardback
$250.80

For those born and living on the shores of the Mediterranean, the fig is often the first fruit they have ever tasted...  Read More >>

Beer: A Global Journey through the Past and Present

Beer: A Global Journey through the Past and Present...

Author: John W. Arthur (Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Anthropology, The University of South Florida)
ISBN: 9780197776988
Format: Paperback
$31.95

This unique book is an exciting global journey into the origins, technologies, and recipes of ancient beer as well...  Read More >>

Eating in US National Parks: Cosmopolitan Taste and Food Tourism

Eating in US National Parks: Cosmopolitan Taste and...

Author: Kathleen LeBesco
ISBN: 9781032596327
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book presents a fascinating exploration of eating experiences within US national parks, explaining how, on...  Read More >>

Practicing Food Studies

Practicing Food Studies

Author: Amy Bentley ,  Fabio Parasecoli
ISBN: 9781479828081
Format: Hardback
$210.00

An introduction to the burgeoning field of food studies Popular and intellectual interest in food is on the rise....  Read More >>

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