In How America Eats, Food historian Jennifer Wallach examines how Americans have produced food, cooked, and filled their stomachs from the colonial era to the present.
This book defines the food film genre, and analyzes the relationship between cinematic food imagery and various cultural constructs, including politics, family, identity, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender and religion
his multicultural and interdisciplinary reference brings a fresh social and cultural perspective to the global history of food, foodstuffs, and cultural exchange from the age of discovery to contemporary times.
Food and Culture - Circulating Books
Reimagining Marginalized Foods by Elizabeth Finnis (Editor)
This volume brings together ethnographically based anthropological analyses of shifting meanings and representations associated with the foods, ingredients, and cooking practices of marginalized and/or indigenous cultures.
Eating in Eden by Etta M. Madden (Editor); Martha L. Finch (Editor)
This theoretically informed, interdisciplinary collection of thirteen essays broadens familiar definitions of utopianism and community to explore the ways Americans have produced, consumed, avoided, and marketed food and food-related products and meanings to further their visionary ideals.
Tasty by John McQuaid
Call Number: New Book Collection, 1st Floor TX631 .M395 2015 3-wk loan
ISBN: 9781451685008
A fascinating and deeply researched investigation into the mysteries of flavor from the first bite taken by our ancestors to scientific advances in taste and the current revolution.
In HUNGRY PLANET, the creative team behind the best-selling Material World, Women in the Material World, and MAN EATING BUGS presents a photographic study of families from around the world, revealing what people eat during the course of one week.
Explores the complex relationships among food, culture, and society from numerous disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as in the world of food beyond the academy.
The mission of the Center for Food and Culture is to promote a deeper understanding of the many ways in which food connects us all and to nourish our connections to and through food in order to have healthier, fuller lives and a more equitable and sustainable world.
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