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Author
Publisher
Open Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xv, 214 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
"Feeding the City is an ethnographic study of the fascinating inner workings of Mumbai's dabbawalas. Cultural anthropologist Sara Roncaglia explains how they cater to the various dietary requirements of a diverse and increasingly global city, where the preparation and consumption of food is pervaded with religious and cultural significance."--Publisher
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"Eating Beside Ourselves expands the work of food studies by approaching eating and feeding as sites of transformation across a diversity of bodies and selves. In turning organic substance into food, acts of eating create webs of relations, interconnected and organized by relative conditions of edibility, through which eaters may in turn become eaten. Focusing on such relations, this volume explores how eating and feeding mediate thresholds between...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berg
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xii, 211 pages) : illustrations, 1 portrait.
Language
English
Description
"This book offers a theoretical account of the interrelationship of culture, food and memory. The author challenges and expands anthropology's current focus on issues of embodiment, memory and material culture, especially in relation to transnational migration and the flow of culture across borders and boundaries. The Greek island of Kalymnos in the eastern Aegean, where Islanders claim to remember meals long past - both humble and spectacular - provides...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (85 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language
English
Description
This Element explores multi-faceted linkages between feeding and relationship formation based on ethnographic case studies in Morocco, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and Costa Rica. Research demonstrates that there are many culturally valued ways of feeding children, contradicting the idea of a single universally optimal feeding standard. It demonstrates further that in many parts of the world, feeding plays a central role in bonding and relationship...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
x, 186 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Food played a central role in the Third Reich, to satisfy the daily needs of the people, to prepare Germany for war, to decrease the country's dependence on food imports and as the foundation of a racial ideology that justified the murder of millions of Jews, prisoners of war and Slavs. This book is the first to address the topic of food during the Nazi Reich in a comprehensive way. It illustrates the importance of food in Nazi ideology, its use...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xvi, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Why do so many Americans drive for miles each autumn to buy a vegetable that they are unlikely to eat? While most people around the world eat pumpkin throughout the year, North Americans reserve it for holiday pies and other desserts that celebrate the harvest season and the rural past. They decorate their houses with pumpkins every autumn and welcome Halloween trick-or-treaters with elaborately carved jack-o'-lanterns. Towns hold annual pumpkin festivals...
Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
194 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Film critic and food writer Alissa Wilkinson sits down with a hypothetical table of smart, engaging, revolutionary women of the twentieth century to explore the ways food centered each woman's creative work. As we meet these multifaceted women, we learn how to live with courage, smarts, saltiness, and sometimes feasting--even in uncertain times.
10) Lumpia
Author
Series
Publisher
Pop!, a division of Abdo
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An overview of lumpia, from the origin of the food to how it is prepared and enjoyed today. Clear text and vibrant photos grab and hold readers' interest, and QR Codes in each chapter link to book-specific videos, activities, and more." -- Amazon.
11) Pho
Author
Series
Publisher
Pop!, a division of Abdo
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
32 pages : colour illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An overview of pho, from the origin of the food to how it is prepared and enjoyed today. Clear text and vibrant photos grab and hold readers' interest, and QR Codes in each chapter link to book-specific videos, activities, and more." -- Amazon.
12) Macarons
Author
Series
Publisher
Pop!, a division of Abdo
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
670L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An overview of macarons, from the origin of the food to how it is prepared and enjoyed today. Clear text and vibrant photos grab and hold readers' interest, and QR Codes in each chapter link to book-specific videos, activities, and more." -- Amazon.
13) Empanadas
Author
Series
Publisher
Pop!, a division of Abdo
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An overview of empanadas, from the origin of the food to how it is prepared and enjoyed today. Clear text and vibrant photos grab and hold readers' interest, and QR Codes in each chapter link to book-specific videos, activities, and more." -- Amazon.
14) Paella
Author
Series
Publisher
Pop!, a division of Abdo
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
580L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An overview of paella, from the origin of the food to how it is prepared and enjoyed today. Clear text and vibrant photos grab and hold readers' interest, and QR Codes in each chapter link to book-specific videos, activities, and more." -- Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
231 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Join the conversation with more than one hundred women restaurateurs, activists, food writers, home cooks, and professional chefs, including Carla Hall, Ruth Reichl, Julia Turshen, Dorie Greenspan, Priya Krishna, Leah Penniman, Rachel Khong, Osayi Endolyn, Bonnie Tsui, and many others-all of whom are changing the world of food. Featuring essays, profiles, recipes, and more, Why We Cook is curated and illustrated by author and artist Lindsay Gardner,...
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
ix, 300 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A rollicking exploration of the history and future of our favorite foods When we humans love foods, we love them a lot. In fact, we have often eaten them into extinction, whether it is the megafauna of the Paleolithic world or the passenger pigeon of the last century. In Lost Feast, food expert Lenore Newman sets out to look at the history of the foods we have loved to death and what that means for the culinary paths we choose for the future. Whether...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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 like, where it comes from, what is good for us--there are often more questions than answers. Ruhlman proposes that the best practices for consuming wisely could be hiding in plain sight--in the aisles of your local supermarket. Using...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
388 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A food writer travels the Silk Road, immersing herself in a moveable feast of foods and cultures and discovering some surprising truths about commitment, independence, and love.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 210 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book explores the way food and drink evoke our associations and remembrances--a subtext or layering, a flavor tinged with joy, shame, exuberance, grief, desire, or nostalgia. It restores our astonishment and wonder about food through encounters with a range of foods and food traditions. From shave ice to lumpia, mangoes to pecans, rambutan to vanilla, she investigates how food marks our experiences and identities and explores the boundaries...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 326 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Inequality in America manifests in many ways, but perhaps nowhere more than in how we eat. From her years of field research, sociologist and ethnographer Priya Fielding-Singh brings us into the kitchens of dozens of families from varied educational, economic, and ethnoracial backgrounds to explore how--and why--we eat the way we do"--
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