Cumin, Camels, and Caravans

Gary Paul Nabhan

• Paperback | Engels | California Studies in Food and Culture | nr. 45
• Gary Paul Nabhan takes the reader on a vivid and far-ranging journey across time and space in this fascinating look at the relationship between the sp... Lees meer

The Untold History of Ramen

George Solt

• Hardcover | Engels | California Studies in Food and Culture | nr. 49
• A rich, salty, and steaming bowl of noodle soup, ramen has become an international symbol of the cultural prowess of Japanese cuisine. In this highly ... Lees meer

From Label to Table

Xaq Frohlich

• Hardcover | Engels | California Studies in Food and Culture
• How did the Nutrition Facts label come to appear on millions of everyday American household food products? As Xaq Frohlich reveals, this legal, scient... Lees meer

Cooking

Herve This, Pierre Gagnaire

• Paperback | California Studies in Food and Culture
• Investigates the question of culinary beauty in a series of dialogues. This book explores a variety of topics and elaborates a revolutionary method fo... Lees meer

Paradox of Plenty

Harvey Levenstein

• Paperback | Engels | California Studies in Food and Culture | nr. 8
• In this sweeping history of food and eating in modern America, Harvey Levenstein explores the social, economic, and political factors that have shaped... Lees meer

The Philosophy of Food

• Hardcover | Engels | California Studies in Food and Culture | nr. 39
• This book explores food from a philosophical perspective, bringing together sixteen leading philosophers to consider the most basic questions about fo... Lees meer

Meat Planet

Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

• Paperback | Engels | California Studies in Food and Culture | nr. 69
• In 2013, a Dutch scientist unveiled the world's first laboratory-created hamburger. Since then, the idea of producing meat, not from live animals but ... Lees meer

Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race

María Elena García

• Paperback | Engels | California Studies in Food and Culture
• In recent years, Peru has transformed from a war-torn country to a global high-end culinary destination. Connecting chefs, state agencies, global capi... Lees meer

Slow Cooked

Marion Nestle

• Hardcover | Engels | California Studies in Food and Culture
• "A chronicle of hard work and a public health resource, Slow Cooked is also proof that it's never too late." -- New York Times​ Marion Nestle reflects... Lees meer

From Label to Table

Xaq Frohlich

• Paperback | Engels | California Studies in Food and Culture
• How did the Nutrition Facts label come to appear on millions of everyday American household food products? As Xaq Frohlich reveals, this legal, scient... Lees meer

Cuisine and Empire

Rachel Laudan

• Paperback | Engels | California Studies in Food and Culture | nr. 43
• Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world's great cuisines--from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand ye... Lees meer

Why Calories Count

Marion Nestle, Malden Nesheim

• Paperback | Engels | California Studies in Food and Culture
• Calories--too few or too many--are the source of health problems affecting billions of people in today's globalized world. Although calories are essen... Lees meer

Cuisine and Empire

Rachel Laudan

• Hardcover | Engels | California Studies in Food and Culture | nr. 43
• Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world's great cuisines--from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand ye... Lees meer

M. F. K. Fisher Among the Pots and Pans

Joan Reardon

• Paperback | Engels | California Studies in Food and Culture | nr. 22
• From her very first book, Serve It Forth, M.F.K. Fisher wrote about her ideal kitchen. In her subsequent publications, she revisited the many kitchens... Lees meer

Divided Spirits

Sarah Bowen

• Hardcover | Engels | California Studies in Food and Culture | nr. 56
• Divided Spirits tells the stories of tequila and mezcal, two of Mexico's most iconic products. In doing so, the book illustrates how neoliberalism inf... Lees meer

Curried Cultures

• Hardcover | Engels | California Studies in Food and Culture | nr. 34
• Although South Asian cookery and gastronomy has transformed contemporary urban foodscape all over the world, social scientists have paid scant attenti... Lees meer

Canned

Anna Zeide

• Hardcover | Engels | California Studies in Food and Culture | nr. 68
• 2019 James Beard Foundation Book Award winner: Reference, History, and Scholarship A century and a half ago, when the food industry was first taking r... Lees meer

Coffee Life in Japan

Merry White

• Paperback | Engels | California Studies in Food and Culture | nr. 36
• This fascinating book-part ethnography, part memoir-traces Japan's vibrant café society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan's ... Lees meer

How the Other Half Ate

Katherine Leonard Turner

• Hardcover | Engels | California Studies in Food and Culture | nr. 48
• In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, working-class Americans had eating habits that were distinctly shaped by jobs, families, neighbo... Lees meer

Making Modern Meals

Amy B Trubek

• Paperback | Engels | California Studies in Food and Culture | nr. 66
• Home cooking is crucial to our lives, but today we no longer identify it as an obligatory everyday chore. By looking closely at the stories and practi... Lees meer

Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race

María Elena García

• Hardcover | Engels | California Studies in Food and Culture
• In recent years, Peru has transformed from a war-torn country to a global high-end culinary destination. Connecting chefs, state agencies, global capi... Lees meer

A Feast of Weeds

Luigi Ballerini

• Hardcover | Engels | California Studies in Food and Culture | nr. 38
• The primal experience of gathering is inscribed in every human's DNA, and this book invites us to look beyond the refrigerator and cupboard to the abu... Lees meer

The Fruits of Empire

Shana Klein

• Hardcover | Engels | California Studies in Food and Culture | nr. 73
• The Fruits of Empire is a history of American expansion through the lens of art and food. In the decades after the Civil War, Americans consumed an un... Lees meer

A History of Cookbooks

Henry Notaker

• Hardcover | Engels | California Studies in Food and Culture | nr. 64
• A History of Cookbooks provides a sweeping literary and historical overview of the cookbook genre, exploring its development as a part of food culture... Lees meer