Offering an overview on the relationships between smell and atmospheres as proposed by philosophy and the humanities, th......more

Most agricultural production is of commodity or undifferentiated products. Producers suffer from a roller-coaster ride o......more

An enlightening and delicious look at how vegans - and their critics - are redefining the way the world eats in the twen......more

The greatest challenges of the twenty-first century stem from the fact that we are now living in a new epoch: the Anthro......more

A tasty oral history In 2018, Janis Thiessen, Kimberley Moore, and collaborator Kent Davies refashioned a used food truc......more

A tasty oral history In 2018, Janis Thiessen, Kimberley Moore, and collaborator Kent Davies refashioned a used food truc......more

How representations of the preparation, sale, and consumption of leftovers in nineteenth-century urban France link socio......more

Even in the context of rapid material and social change in urban Morocco, women, and especially those from low-income ho......more

Based on ethnographic work in a Moldovan winemaking village, Wine Is Our Bread shows how workers in a prestigious winery......more

A fascinating exploration of beer, ancient and contemporary, and its role in shaping human society Beer is and has alway......more

A clarion call to recognize the importance of rural farming communities and to build a new agriculture policy for our fu......more

"A young South Asian American woman’s story of reconnecting with her identity, family, and heritage through sustainable ......more

Indigenous food systems have been neglected in regards to current global food security challenges. The author argues tha......more

Working across food studies and media studies, Joanne Hollows examines the impact of celebrity chefs on how we think abo......more

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Fun Food provides a fascinating, sometimes startling, journey through the contemporary landscape of children s food and ......more

This book draws on the life stories told by shepherds, farmers, and their families in the Andalusian region in Spain to ......more

Two decades ago, a group of Indonesian agricultural workers began occupying the agribusiness plantation near their homes......more

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Food in a Just World examines the violence, social breakdown, and environmental consequences of our global system of foo......more

Food in a Just World examines the violence, social breakdown, and environmental consequences of our global system of foo......more

This book presents a fascinating exploration of eating experiences within US national parks, explaining how, on what, an......more

This book presents a fascinating exploration of eating experiences within US national parks, explaining how, on what, an......more

How do we engage with food through memory and imagination? This expansive volume spans time and space to illustrate how,......more

Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century illuminates the transnational agrarian movements that are remaking rural so......more

Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century illuminates the transnational agrarian movements that are remaking rural so......more

For a long time, everything revolved around bread. Providing more than half of people’s daily calories, bread was the li......more

In Russia, food has a hugely important role in political, symbolic, and practical terms. In this illuminating history of......more

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Argues that the dairy industry in Japan has always been entwined with notions of Otherness and security seeking, notably......more

Chayanov presents a fascinating vision of the struggle of the Russian, and international, cooperative movement for a new......more

First published in 1979, Education, Innovations, and Agricultural Development investigates the effect of education on ag......more

Tracing developments from the classical period to the early industrial revolution and beyond, Anne Murcott provides us w......more

Post-Soviet Latvia and post-apartheid South Africa are far apart geographically and yet have endured a similar history o......more

In the always developing scene of agribusiness, the execution of present day procedures has turned into the foundation o......more

"Cabbages and Cauliflowers: How to Grow Them" through James J. H. Gregory is a seminal painting that stands as a testomo......more

The British know nothing about Botswana because it seldom gets a mention in the press; and because it’s ’simply not inte......more

With almost seven hundred articles included in this series, it is not surprising to learn that political thinking, anecd......more

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Showing how the history of the apple goes far beyond the orchard and into the social, cultural and technological develop......more

A rich, long-term ethnography of women seafood traders in Mexico. The "shrimp ladies," locally known as changueras in so......more

A rich, long-term ethnography of women seafood traders in Mexico. The "shrimp ladies," locally known as changueras in so......more

Have you ever wondered why your tap water tastes the way it does? The Taste of Water explores the increasing erasure of ......more

"America’s food system is broken, harming family farmers, workers, the environment, and our health. But it doesn’t have ......more

An exploration of food, ingestion, and digestion in the emerging field of the metabolic arts. Food appears everywhere in......more

This research monograph is about women farmers in India who are engaged primarily in the cultivation of vegetables and f......more

Literature, like food, is, in Terry Eagleton’s words, "endlessly interpretable," and food, like literature, "looks like ......more

Food Information, Communication and Education analyses the role of different media in producing and transforming knowled......more

What root cellaring is and why it’s important for prepper .The idea of being independent is gaining significance in toda......more

Food Mobilities tells the fascinating story of how we cook, shop, and eat in today’s global food system....more

Vir Khanna’s "The Sustainable Farm: Nurturing Our Land and Feeding the Future" is an inspiring look at the promising pot......more

Improving Agricultural Impact: Empowering INGOs to Establish and Enhance Their Food Security Programs is a transformativ......more

Food Mobilities tells the fascinating story of how we cook, shop, and eat in today’s global food system....more

In The Poetics of Fire, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and Chicano author Victor M. Valle posits the chile as a metap......more

Following the pattern of From Field to Fork (OUP, 2015) Paul B. Thompson provides a highly readable and up-to-date analy......more

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This book explores the addictive techniques used in advertisements for ultra-processed foods, which promise consequence-......more

The manufacturing of a chronic food crisis Food insecurity in the North is one of Canada’s most shameful public health a......more

The manufacturing of a chronic food crisis Food insecurity in the North is one of Canada’s most shameful public health a......more

This book considers Italian peasant culture, its impact on intellectual activism, and its significance in shaping the Sl......more

Where did Temporary Sobriety Initiatives (TSIs) such as Dry January, FebFast and Ocsober, come from? And what is their r......more

"A thorough, lively work of on-the-ground reportage. ... Friedman shares a remarkable story." --Wall Street Journal Accl......more

How did the Nutrition Facts label come to appear on millions of everyday American household food products? As Xaq Frohli......more

"In this lively and fascinating book, a guilt-ridden, bacon-loving journalist finds work at an industrial pig farm as he......more

This book examines historical and contemporary activist alimentary performance with an eye toward, or perhaps a taste fo......more

"This slim yet insightful and entertaining volume documents the many instances where wine drinkers did not get what they......more

James Beard Award-winning author Kim Foster reveals a new portrait of hunger and humanity in America. Food is a conduit ......more

In that topsy-turvy logic of the Roverso Mondo (the Upside-Down World) mountains are made of cheese, rivers flow with wi......more

Finalist - American Writing Awards 2023, (3 categories) Gold Winner - Literary Titan Awards, Dec 2023 Long List - Chanti......more

"More than a memoir, Farm is a call to arms for farmers to do better, for people to understand food systems better, and ......more

"If they are going to kill us anyway, we might as well die in our lands." With these words and a shrug of shoulders, a l......more