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  • I Eat, Therefore I Think
    Raymond D. Boisvert / Raymond DBoisvert
    I Eat, Therefore I Think breaks new ground by introducing philosophy via an activity central to life: eating. Building on the original meaning of philosophy as love of wisdom, it explains how the search for wisdom can best succeed by addressing not just the mind, but the entire human being. Eating, an activity that integrates physiological, social, religious, cultural, ethical,...
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    111,40 €

  • The Food Section
    Kimberly Wilmot Voss
    Food blogs are everywhere today but for generations, information and opinions about food were found in the food sections of newspapers in communities large and small. Until the early 1970s, these sections were housed in the women’s pages of newspapers-where women could hold an authoritative voice. The food editors-often a mix of trained journalist and home economist-reported on...
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    68,21 €

  • How America Eats
    Jennifer Jensen Wallach
    How America Eats: A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture, by food and social historian Jennifer Wallach, sheds a new and interesting light on American history by way of the dinner table. It is, at once, a study of America’s diverse culinary history and a look at the country’s unique and unprecedented journey to the present day. While undeniably a 'melting pot' of different c...
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    45,87 €

  • Lunch
    Megan Elias
    Lunch has never been just a meal; the meal most often eaten in public, lunch has a long tradition of establishing social status and cementing alliances. From the ploughman’s lunch in the field to the power lunch at the Four Seasons, the particulars of lunch decisions-where, with whom, and what we eat-often mark our place in the world. Lunch itself has galvanized political move...
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    68,42 €

  • Food and Everyday Life
    Thomas MConroy
    Food and Everyday Life provides a qualitative, interpretive, and interdisciplinary examination of food and food practices and their meanings in the modern world. Edited by Thomas M. Conroy, the book offers a number of complementary approaches and topics around the parameters of the 'ordinary, everyday' perspective on food. These studies highlight aspects of food production, dis...
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    156,58 €

  • Comb Honey Production
    Roger A. Morse
    Cornell University Professor Roger A. Morse's classic book on the production of comb honey. He considered comb honey production and queen rearing to be the benchmark of an accomplished beekeeper. Comb honey is exactly as the bees produce it, with natural comb and no heating or filtering during the production by the bees. Comb honey is a gourmet item in many fine eating establis...
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    29,67 €

  • When Rice Shakes The World
    Milo Hamilton
    For millennia, rice has sealed the fate of dynasties and kingdoms in Asia but has only remained a cultural curiosity to Western financial markets. Today the food and agricultural markets of India and China are in motion. The history of agricultural change is littered with hunger, poverty and failure. Will that curse pass itself on to this Asian generation? Or is there a bri...
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    18,83 €

  • Appetites and Anxieties
    Cynthia Baron / Diane Carson / Mark Bernard
    Cinema is a mosaic of memorable food scenes. Detectives drink alone. Gangsters talk with their mouths full. Families around the world argue at dinner. Food documentaries challenge popular consumption-centered visions. In Appetites and Anxieties: Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation, authors Cynthia Baron, Diane Carson, and Mark Bernard use a foodways paradigm, drawn f...
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    49,52 €

  • New York City
    Andrew F. Smith / Andrew FSmith / Andrew Smith
    New York City’s first food biography showcases all the vibrancy, innovation, diversity, influence, and taste of this most-celebrated American metropolis. Its cuisine has developed as a lively potluck supper, where discrete culinary traditions have survived, thrived, and interacted. For almost 400 years New York’s culinary influence has been felt in other cities and communities ...
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    68,39 €

  • The Picnic
    Walter Levy
    Picnics are happy occasions and have always been a diversion from every day cares. We think of the picnic as an outdoor meal, set on a blanket, usually in the middle of the day, featuring a hamper filled with tasty morsels and perhaps a bottle of wine, but historically picnics came in many forms, served any time of the day. This first culinary history reveals rustic outdoor din...
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    68,41 €

  • Red, White, and Black Make Blue
    Andrea Feeser
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    23,60 €

  • A People's History of Coffee and Cafes
    Bob Biderman
    A People's History of Coffee and Cafés is an exploration into how a certain plant became a global commodity, creating fortunes and despair, bringing people together and tearing them apart, playing a starring role in the remarkable awakening of our modern world. The theme is coffee and the venue is the coffeehouse - one of the few places where prince and pauper might meet on eq...
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    41,53 €

  • A People's History of Coffee and Cafes
    Bob Biderman
    A People's History of Coffee and Cafés is an exploration of how a certain plant became a global commodity, creating fortunes and despair, bringing people together and tearing them apart, playing a staring role in the remarkable awakening of our modern world. The theme is coffee; the venue is the coffeehouse - one of the few places where prince and pauper might meet on equal foo...
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    19,32 €

  • Coffee
    Coffee: A Comprehensive Guide to the Bean, the Beverage, and the Industry offers a definitive guide to the many rich dimensions of the bean and the beverage around the world. Leading experts from business and academia consider coffee’s history, global spread, cultivation, preparation, marketing, and the environmental and social issues surrounding it today. They discuss, for exa...
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    153,60 €

  • Molluscs and Me
    Helen Jean Howard
    Molluscs and Me is a celebration of the Kent countryside and a story of how fulfilment can come from an unusual source. Without acres of land, Helen decides to start an edible snail farm in her spare bedroom. In the face of prejudice, she searches for a market for her escargots and does everything she can to get her snails into the public eye and onto their plates, from farmers...
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    10,85 €

  • Real Dirt
    Harry Stoddart
    Real Dirt is a groundbreaking book for any reader interested in learning more about where food comes from. Harry Stoddart shares years of experience and knowledge in his quirky dissection of agriculture and what we eat. Among his many achievements, he has developed a farming system he believes is the starting point for genuinely sustainable agriculture. A sixth-generation farme...
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    12,39 €

  • Chocolate, women and empire
    Emma Robertson
    Provides an original and challenging perspective on the history of chocolate, questioning the romantic images of the commodity offered in marketing campaigns. It weaves together a variety of previously unexamined sources including oral histories of women workers, advertising material from the Rowntree and Cadbury companies and archival material. ...
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    31,95 €

  • San Francisco
    Erica J. Peters / Erica JPeters
    San Francisco is a relatively young city with a well-deserved reputation as a food destination, situated near lush farmland and a busy port. San Francisco’s famous restaurant scene has been the subject of books, but the full complexity of the city’s culinary history is revealed here for the first time. This food biography presents the story of how food traveled from farms to ma...
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    68,26 €

  • The Biology of Government
    Greg Lawrence
    The premise of this book is that the role of government is to look to the well-being of the people and to maintain and improve the quality of the environment. In other words, government is animal husbandry and ecosystem management - it is applied biology. Following this line the author examines the physical and mental needs of human beings, including the special needs of child...
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    21,69 €

  • Foodways and Empathy
    Anita von Poser
    Through the sharing of food, people feel entitled to inquire into one another's lives and ponder one another's states in relation to their foodways. This in-depth study focuses on the Bosmun of Daiden, a Ramu River people in an under-represented area in the ethnography of Papua New Guinea, uncovering the conceptual convergence of local notions of relatedness, foodways, and em...
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    163,33 €

  • Greek Whisky
    Tryfon Bampilis
    In many contexts of Greek social life, Scotch whisky has coincidentally become a symbol of 'Greekness,' national identity, modernity, and the middle class. This ethnographic study follows the social life of Scotch in Greece through three distinct trajectories in time and space in order to investigate how the meanings of the beverage are projected, negotiated, and acquired by ...
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    163,54 €

  • Liquid Bread
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    37,95 €

  • Places of Pain
    Hariz Halilovich
    For displaced persons, memory and identity is performed, (re)constructed and (re)negotiated daily. Forced displacement radically reshapes identity, with results ranging from successful hybridization to feelings of permanent misplacement. This compelling and intimate description of places of pain and (be)longing that were lost during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, ...
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    163,34 €

  • Producing Royal Jelly
    R. F. van Toor / RFvan Toor
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    21,67 €

  • Bound in Twine
    Sterling Evans
    Before the invention of the combine, the binder was an essential harvesting implement that cut grain and bound the stalks in bundles tied with twine that could then be hand-gathered into shocks for threshing. Hundreds of thousands of farmers across the United States and Canada relied on binders and the twine required for the machine’s operation. Implement manufacturers discover...
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    35,02 €

  • New Orleans
    Elizabeth M. Williams / Elizabeth MWilliams
    Beignets, Po’ Boys, gumbo, jambalaya, Antoine’s. New Orleans’ celebrated status derives in large measure from its incredibly rich food culture, based mainly on Creole and Cajun traditions. At last, this world-class destination has its own food biography. Elizabeth M. Williams, a New Orleans native and founder of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum there, takes readers through...
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    68,38 €

  • Corn Meets Maize
    Lauren Baker / Lauren E. Baker / Lauren EBaker
    This compelling book explores the intimate connections between people and plants, agriculture and cooking, and the practical work of building local food networks and transnational social movements. Lauren E. Baker uses corn and maize to consider central debates about food security and food sovereignty, biodiversity and biotechnology, culture and nature, as well as globalization...
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    141,74 €

  • Ogata-Mura
    Donald C. Wood / Donald CWood
    Following the Second World War, a massive land reclamation project to boost Japan’s rice production capacity led to the transformation of the shallow lagoon of Hachirogata in Akita Prefecture into a seventeen-thousand-hectare expanse of farmland. In 1964, the village of Ogata-mura was founded on the empoldered land inside the lagoon and nearly six hundred pioneers from across t...
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    184,20 €

  • Risiko und Risikomanagement ausgewählter Fusarium-Mykotoxine. Eine Analyse mit dem Fokus auf der Verbesserung des gesundheitlichen Verbraucherschutzes
    Katharina Raupach
    Die Verbesserung des gesundheitlichen Verbraucherschutzes in Bezug auf die Lebensmittelsicherheit ist - auch aufgrund zahlreicher Lebensmittelskandale der jüngeren Vergangenheit - derzeit hochaktuell. In der vorliegenden Studie wird mit der Analyse der Fusarium-Mykotoxin-Problematik („Schimmelpilze') ein in der Öffentlichkeit bislang eher unbekanntes Thema aufgegriffen, dem jed...
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    53,81 €

  • Food and Social Media
    Signe Rousseau
    Social media platforms have quickly become integral to most people’s lives, both privately and professionally. This is the first book to illuminate the trend of relying on social media in the food world. Engaging in social media is fun, but it is also rapidly becoming the platform for self-promotion and branding. This entertaining narrative offers an historical account of the m...
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    108,80 €


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