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Food touches everything important to people, making social differences and strengthening social bonds. Common to all peoples, food can nonetheless ... More

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Food touches everything important to people: it marks social differences and strengthens social bonds. Common to all peoples, yet it can signify very ... More

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Prousts famous madeleine captures the power of food to evoke some of our deepest memories. Why does food hold such power? What does the growing ... More

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Food historian Margaret Visser takes a meal of corn on the cob with butter and salt, roast chicken with rice, salad, and ice cream, and wittily ... More

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An experimental ethnography of food, sex, and health in post-socialist China

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Never before has food been such an all-consuming issue, with enormous impact on our lives at many levels, from the cultural to the technical and the ... More

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For the majority of creatures on this earth, the elements of our first meals together--a flashing fire, bared teeth, a quantity of food placed in the ... More

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Eating has never been simple, and contemporary eating practices seem more complicated than ever, demanding a multidimensional analysis that strives ... More

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Is the restaurant an ideal total social phenomenon for the contemporary world? Restaurants are framed by the logic of the market, but promise ... More

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This collection of original essays explores food and identity in the Caribbean, as contemporary political and economic changes impact upon culinary ... More

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The offering of sacrifices, the banqueting of guests, and the ritual preparation, prohibition or consumption of food and drink were central elements ... More

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"A Cultural History of Food presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six volumes covers nearly 3,000 years of ... More

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This work brings together voices from a wide range of disciplines, providing a fascinating feast of scholarly perspectives on food and eating ... More

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Everyday, millions of people eat earth, clay, nasal mucus, and similar substances. Yet food practices like these are strikingly understudied in a ... More

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Food preparation, consumption, and exchange are eminently social practices, and experiencing another cuisine often provides our first encounter with ... More

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An excursion into the origins and background of an ordinary dinner: corn on the cob, chicken with rice, lettuce salad and ice-cream. Tracing the ... More

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Hailed as a classic when initially published in 1961, "Eat Not This Flesh" was the first book that explored, from a historical and cultural ... More

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Gartenstein tells the fascinating story of people's relationship with their meals, from the Paleolithic hunters who painted their prey on remote cave ... More

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This study deals with three domains of food which raise complex epistemological, political and moral issues. Through an examination of a wide range ... More

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"Explores the importance of cooking and eating in the everyday social life of Hoi An, a properous market town in central Vietnam known for its ... More

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"Rice and Beans is a book about the paradox of local and global. On one hand, this is a globe-spanning dish, a simple source of complete nutrition ... More

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