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Food stood at the centre of Mussolini’s attempt to occupy Ethiopia and build an Italian Empire in East Africa. Seeking t......more
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Based on over ten years of fieldwork in Peru and Aotearoa New Zealand, Recovering Our Ancestral Foodways explores how Qu......more
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Originally published in 1961, this book was the first comprehensive work on South African geography that also presented ......more
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Significant Food is a collaborative work of textual analysis and criticism that chews on the role and prominence of food......more
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No Meat Required is a bestselling culinary and cultural history of plant-based eating in the United States that delves i......more
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The New York Times bestselling author of Deep Nutrition explains how a group of eight little-known oils cause the cellul......more
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"What makes for a livable life, and for whom? Taking Bengaluru, India, as a case study, Camille Frazier probes the meani......more
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The cultivation of the three sisters (corn, beans, and squash) on subsistence farms in El Salvador is a multispecies, wo......more
The Sheep Industry of Territorial New Mexico offers a detailed account of the New Mexico sheep industry during the terri......more
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