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  • Food Mobilities

    Making World Cuisines

    Edición de Daniel E. Bender, Simone Cinotto ...
    Series Libro 1 - Culinaria
    Bringing together multidisciplinary scholars from the growing discipline of food studies, Food Mobilities examines food provisioning and the food cultures of the world, historically and in contemporary times. The collection offers a range of fascinating case studies, including explorations of Italian food in colonial Ethiopia, traditional Cornish pasties in Mexico, migrant community gardeners in ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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  • Edible Economics

    A Hungry Economist Explains the World

    de Ha-Joon Chang ...
    A creative and surprising exploration of economics through the lens of the food and global cuisine―from the bestselling author of Economics.For decades, a single, free-market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this intellectual monoculture is bland and unhealthy. Ha-Joon Chang makes challenging economic ideas delicious by plating them alongside stories about food from around the world, ... Leer más

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  • An Economist Gets Lunch

    New Rules for Everyday Foodies

    de Tyler Cowen ...
    A leading economist, “who may very well turn out to be this decade’s Thomas Friedman” (Wall Street Journal), illuminates the state of American food todayTyler Cowen, one of the most influential economists of the last decade, wants you to know that just about everything you’ve heard about how to get good food is wrong. Drawing on a provocative range of examples from around the globe, Cowen reveals ... Leer más

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  • White Bread

    A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf

    The story of how white bread became white trash, this social history shows how our relationship with the love-it-or-hate-it food staple reflects our country’s changing valuesIn the early twentieth century, the factory-baked loaf heralded a bright new future, a world away from the hot, dusty, “dirty” bakeries run by immigrants. Fortified with vitamins, this bread was considered the original ... Leer más

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  • The Value of Nothing

    How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy

    de Raj Patel ...
    New York Times Bestseller: "A deeply thought-provoking book about the dramatic changes we must make to save the planet from financial madness." —Naomi Klein, New York Times–bestselling authorOpening with Oscar Wilde's observation that "nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing," Patel shows how our faith in prices as a way of valuing the world is misplaced. He reveals ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Empire of Things

    How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

    "[A] sweepingly detailed history of humanity's passion for the possession of objects...[an] epic chronicle." — Wall Street JournalWhat we consume has become a central—perhaps the central—feature of modern life. Our economies live or die by spending, we increasingly define ourselves by our possessions, and this ever-richer lifestyle has had an extraordinary impact on our planet. How have we come to ... Leer más

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  • Coffee

    A Comprehensive Guide to the Bean, the Beverage, and the Industry

    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 example, the impact of ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Moveable Feasts

    From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat

    de Sarah Murray ...
    "A fascinating chronicle of mankind's efforts to move food throughout history" from the Financial Times contributor and author of Making an Exit ( The News & Observer).Today the average meal has traveled thousands of miles before reaching the dinner table. How on earth did this happen? Through delightful anecdotes and astonishing facts, Moveable Feasts tells the stories.Combining history, science, ... Leer más

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  • Slow Food Nation

    Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, and Fair

    de Carlo Petrini ...
    Traducido por Clara Furlan, Jonathan Hunt ...
    By now most of us are aware of the threats looming in the food world. The best-selling Fast Food Nation and other recent books have alerted us to such dangers as genetically modified organisms, food-borne diseases, and industrial farming. Now it is time for answers, and Slow Food Nation steps up to the challenge. Here the charismatic leader of the Slow Food movement, Carlo Petrini, outlines many ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Eating Culture

    An Anthropological Guide to Food, Second Edition

    From ingredients and recipes to meals and menus across time and space, this highly engaging overview illustrates the important roles that anthropology and anthropologists play in understanding food and its key place in the study of culture.The new edition, now in full colour, introduces discussions about nomadism, commercializing food, food security, and ethical consumption, including treatment of ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • Slow Food

    The Case for Taste

    de Carlo Petrini ...
    Traducido por William McCuaig ...
    Series series Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
    Take a breath.... Read slowly.How often in the course and crush of our daily lives do we afford ourselves moments to truly relish-to truly be present in-the act of preparing and eating food? For most of us, our enjoyment of food has fallen victim to the frenetic pace of our lives and to our increasing estrangement, in a complex commercial economy, from the natural processes by which food is grown ... Leer más

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  • Food

    The Key Concepts

    Series series The Key Concepts
    Food: The Key Concepts presents an exciting, coherent and interdisciplinary introduction to food studies for the beginning reader. Food Studies is an increasingly complex field, drawing on disciplines as diverse as Sociology, Anthropology and Cultural Studies at one end and Economics, Politics and Agricultural Science at the other.In order to clarify the issues, Food: The Key Concepts distills ... Leer más

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