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Perfection Salad
Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century
Häftad, 2008
272 kr
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Toasted marshmallows stuffed with raisins? Green-and-white luncheons? Chemistry in the kitchen? This entertaining and erudite social history now in its fourth paperback edition tells the remarkable story of America's transformation from a nation of honest appetites into an obedient market for …
Why Calories Count
From Science to Politics
Av Marion Nestle, Malden Nesheim
Häftad, 2013
221 kr
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Calories - too few or too many - are the source of health problems affecting billions of people in today's globalized world. Although calories are essential to human health and survival, they cannot be seen, smelled, or tasted. They are also hard to understand. In Why Calories Count, Marion Nestle …
Kingdom of Rye
A Brief History of Russian Food
Inbunden, 2022
228 kr
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Celebrated food scholar Darra Goldstein takes readers on a vivid tour of history and culture through Russian cuisine. The Kingdom of Rye unearths the foods and flavors of the Russian land. Preeminent food studies scholar Darra Goldstein offers readers a concise, engaging, and gorgeously crafted …
Coffee Life in Japan
Av Merry White
Häftad, 2012
371 kr
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This fascinating book - part ethnography, part memoir - traces Japan's vibrant cafe society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan's coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day, as uniquely …
Taste of Place
A Cultural Journey into Terroir
Häftad, 2009
264 kr
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How and why do we think about food, taste it, and cook it? While much has been written about the concept of terroir as it relates to wine, in this vibrant, personal book, Amy Trubek, a pioneering voice in the new culinary revolution, expands the concept of terroir beyond wine and into cuisine and …
Sugar Coated
Unboxing the Hidden Forces Shaping America's Favorite Breakfast Food
Av Marion Nestle, Lisa Sutherland
Inbunden, 2026
272 kr
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World-renowned food politics expert Marion Nestle joins forces with former cereal executive Lisa Sutherland to examine what cereal boxes reveal about American culture and food politics. If you want to understand how the food business works, just have a look at a box of breakfast cereal. Hardly …
Food Politics
How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health
Häftad, 2013
272 kr
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We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food dollars. In this engrossing expose, Marion Nestle goes behind the scenes to reveal how the competition really works and how it affects our health. The abundance of food in the United States - enough …
Encyclopedia of Pasta
Häftad, 2019
253 kr
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Spaghetti, gnocchi, tagliatellea, ravioli, vincisgrassi, strascinati—pasta in its myriad forms has been a staple of the Mediterranean diet longer than bread. This beautiful volume is the first book to provide a complete history of pasta in Italy, telling its long story via the extravagant variety …
Tsukiji
The Fish Market at the Center of the World
Häftad, 2004
371 kr
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Located only blocks from Tokyo's glittering Ginza, Tsukiji--the world's largest marketplace for seafood--is a prominent landmark, well known but little understood by most Tokyoites: a supplier for countless fishmongers and sushi chefs, and a popular and fascinating destination for foreign tourists. …
Camembert
A National Myth
Inbunden, 2003
544 kr
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Camembert--delectably fragrant, creamy-centered, neatly boxed--is the most popular and most famous French cheese. Originally made by hand in the Norman countryside, it is now mass-produced internationally, yet Camembert remains a national symbol for France, emblematic of its cultural identity. In …
Eating Right in the Renaissance
Av Ken Albala
Inbunden, 2002
431 kr
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Eating right has been an obsession for longer than we think. Renaissance Europe had its own flourishing tradition of dietary advice. Then, as now, an industry of experts churned out diet books for an eager and concerned public. Providing a cornucopia of information on food and an intriguing account …
Art of Cooking
The First Modern Cookery Book
Av Maestro Martino of Como, Luigi Ballerini
Inbunden, 2005
362 kr
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Maestro Martino of Como has been called the first celebrity chef, and his extraordinary treatise on Renaissance cookery, The Art of Cooking, is the first known culinary guide to specify ingredients, cooking times and techniques, utensils, and amounts. This vibrant document is also essential to …
Revolution at the Table
The Transformation of the American Diet
Häftad, 2003
316 kr
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In this wide-ranging and entertaining study Harvey Levenstein tells of the remarkable transformation in how Americans ate that took place from 1880 to 1930.
Paradox of Plenty
A Social History of Eating in Modern America
Häftad, 2003
446 kr
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In this sweeping history of food and eating in modern America, Harvey Levenstein explores the social, economic, and political factors that have shaped the American diet since 1930.
Zinfandel
A History of a Grape and Its Wine
Inbunden, 2003
500 kr
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The Zinfandel grape - currently producing big, rich, luscious styles of red wine - has a large, loyal, even fanatical following in California and around the world. The grape, grown predominantly in California, has acquired an almost mythic status - in part because of the caliber of its wines and …
Born Again Bodies
Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity
Häftad, 2004
307 kr
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'Fat People Don't Go to Heaven' screamed a headline in the tabloid "Globe" in November 2000. The story recounted the success of the Weigh Down Workshop, the nation's largest Christian diet corporation and the subject of extensive press coverage from Larry King Live to the New Yorker. In the United …
Queen of Fats
Why Omega-3s Were Removed from the Western Diet and What We Can Do to Replace Them
Inbunden, 2006
782 kr
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A nutritional whodunit that takes readers from Greenland to Africa to Israel, The Queen of Fats gives a fascinating account of how we have become deficient in a nutrient that is essential for good health: the fatty acids known as omega-3s. Writing with intelligence and passion, Susan Allport tells …
Eating Apes
Häftad, 2004
256 kr
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"Eating Apes" is an eloquent book about a disturbing secret: the looming extinction of humanity's closest relatives, the African great apes - chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas. Dale Peterson's impassioned expose details how, with the unprecedented opening of African forests by European and Asian …
Free for All
Fixing School Food in America
Inbunden, 2010
583 kr
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How did our children end up eating nachos, pizza, and Tater Tots for lunch? Taking us on an eye-opening journey into the nation's school kitchens, this superbly researched book is the first to provide a comprehensive assessment of school food in the United States. Janet Poppendieck explores the …
Cookbook Library
Four Centuries of the Cooks, Writers, and Recipes That Made the Modern Cookbook
Av Anne Willan, Mark Cherniavsky
Inbunden, 2012
493 kr
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This gorgeously illustrated volume began as notes on the collection of cookbooks and culinary images gathered by renowned cookbook author Anne Willan and her husband Mark Cherniavsky. From the spiced sauces of medieval times to the massive roasts and ragouts of Louis XIV's court to elegant …
Our Overweight Children
What Parents, Schools, and Communities Can Do to Control the Fatness Epidemic
Häftad, 2005
364 kr
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The United States is facing a health crisis of epidemic proportions: children are gaining weight younger and faster than ever before. With the prospect of becoming the most obese generation of adults in history, they are already turning up with an alarming assortment of 'grown-up' maladies, from …
Encarnacion’s Kitchen
Mexican Recipes from Nineteenth-Century California
Häftad, 2005
364 kr
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In 1991 Ruth Reichl, then a "Los Angeles Times" food writer, observed that much of the style now identified with California cuisine, and with nouvelle cuisine du Mexique, was practiced by Encarnacion Pinedo a century earlier. A landmark of American cuisine first published in 1898 as "El cocinero …
Meals to Come
A History of the Future of Food
Häftad, 2006
393 kr
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In this provocative and lively addition to his acclaimed writings on food, Warren Belasco takes a sweeping look at a little-explored yet timely topic: humanity's deep-rooted anxiety about the future of food. People have expressed their worries about the future of the food supply in myriad ways, and …
Queen of Fats
Why Omega-3s Were Removed from the Western Diet and What We Can Do to Replace Them
Häftad, 2008
470 kr
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A nutritional whodunit that takes readers from Greenland to Africa to Israel, "The Queen of Fats" gives a fascinating account of how we have become deficient in a nutrient that is essential for good health: the fatty acids known as omega-3s. Writing with intelligence and passion, Susan Allport …
Encyclopedia of Pasta
Inbunden, 2009
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418 kr
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Spaghetti, gnocchi, tagliatellea, ravioli, vincisgrassi, strascinati - pasta in its myriad forms has been a staple of the Mediterranean diet longer than bread. This beautiful volume is the first book to provide a complete history of pasta in Italy, telling its long story via the extravagant variety …
Coffee Life in Japan
Av Merry White
Inbunden, 2012
823 kr
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This fascinating book - part ethnography, part memoir - traces Japan's vibrant cafe society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan's coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day, as uniquely …
Culinary Ephemera
An Illustrated History
Inbunden, 2010
272 kr
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This extraordinary collection, a trove of enchanting designs, appealing colors, and forgotten motifs that stir the imagination, features an unprecedented assortment of ephemera, or paper collectibles, related to food. It includes images of postcards, match covers, menus, labels, posters, brochures, …
M. F. K. Fisher among the Pots and Pans
Celebrating Her Kitchens
Av Joan Reardon
Häftad, 2009
326 kr
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From her very first book, "Serve It Forth", M.F.K. Fisher wrote about her ideal kitchen. In her subsequent publications, she revisited the many kitchens she had known and the foods she savored in them to express her ideas about the art of eating. "M.F.K. Fisher among the Pots and Pans", …
American Tuna
The Rise and Fall of an Improbable Food
Inbunden, 2012
446 kr
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In a lively account of the American tuna industry over the past century, celebrated food writer and scholar Andrew F. Smith relates how tuna went from being sold primarily as a fertilizer to becoming the most commonly consumed fish in the country. In American Tuna, the so-called "chicken of the …
Beyond Hummus and Falafel
Social and Political Aspects of Palestinian Food in Israel
Av Liora Gvion
Inbunden, 2012
1156 kr
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"Beyond Hummus and Falafel" is the story of how food has come to play a central role in how Palestinian citizens of Israel negotiate life and a shared cultural identity within a tense political context. At the household level, Palestinian women govern food culture in the home, replicating tradition …
