The Gilded Age is renowned for a variety of reasons including its culture of conspicuous consumption among the newly rich In the domain of food conspicuous consumption manifested itself in appetites for expensive dishes & lavish dinner parties These received ample publicity at the time resulting later on in well-developed historical depictions of upper-class eating habits This book delves into the eating habits of people of lesser means Concerning the African American community the working class the impoverished immigrants & others our historical representations have been relatively superficial The author changes that by turning to the late nineteenth century's infant science of nutrition for a look at eating & drinking through the lens of the earliest food consumption studies conducted in the United States These were undertaken by scientists mostly chemists who left their laboratories to observe food consumption in kitchens dining rooms & various institutional settings Their insistence on careful measurement resulted in a substantial body of detailed reports on the eating habits of ordinary people This work sheds new light on what most Americans were cooking & eating during the Gilded Age ...

Food in Vogue collects the most elegant mouthwatering food photography & finest food writing from one of the most respected magazines in the world Including original essays by leading food writer & longtime Vogue food critic Jeffrey Steingarten the book features previously published portraits of world-renowned or rising chefs along with classic food editorials photographed by Irving Penn & conceived by editor Phyllis Posnick Food in Vogue examines how Vogue's relationship with & treatment of food has changed in its pages through its lavish & challenging food photographs & its career-defining interviews with the world's hottest chefs The book

Includes:: exclusive br&-new profiles of outstanding chefs alongside iconic Vogue photography Food in Vogue is more than a book about food It's a book about trends fashion & culture told through the world's common language

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Part of the much loved Children Just Like Me series Food Like Mine is a touching celebration of children from all over the world & the food they eat Featuring more than 20 easy-to-follow recipes & beautiful photography throughout Food Like Mine is part of DK's groundbreaking series on children of the world & features children from Botswana to the USA Perfect for children key stage 1 & 2 who will learn about staple ingredients see where they're eaten & discover how they're grown Then you can use these staples in more than 20 delicious international dishes to make at home Food Like Mine shows that even if we live thousands of miles apart our lives share a common ingredient
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The new edition will revise individual chapters a number of topics that will need updating revising or introducing have already been identified & it is likely that a few more will be encountered as work proceeds The book is a thorough & accessible account designed for students in the biological sciences biotechnology & food science It will also be valuable to researchers teachers & practising food microbiologists It is known that some courses have adopted this as a core text eg Wageningen & other Universities are known to recommend it for their core food safety lectures eg Nottingham Leeds Reading Birmingham Warwick ...

A journey to some of the Earth's most endangered people in the remote Upper Amazon a look at the rituals of the Bwiti cults of Gabon & Zaire a field watch on the eating habits of 'stoned' apes & chimpanzees
- these adventures are all a part of ethnobotanist Terence Mc Kenna's extraordinary quest to discover the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge He wonders why as a species we are so fascinated by altered states of consciousness Can they reveal something about our origins as human beings & our place in nature? As an odyssey of mind body & spirit Food of the Gods is one of the most fascinating & surprising histories of consciousness ever written & as a daring work of scholarship & exploration it offers an inspiring vision for individual fulfilment & a humane basis for our interaction which each other & with the natural world ' Brilliant provocative opinionated poetic & inspiring Essential reading for anyone who ever wondered why people take drugs' Rupert Sheldrake
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The politics of food is changing fast In rich countries obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger Consumers once satisfied with cheap & convenient food now want food that is also safe nutritious fresh & grown by local farmers using fewer chemicals Heavily subsidized & underregulated commercial farmers are facing stronger push back from environmentalists & consumer activists & food companies are under the microscope Meanwhile agricultural success in Asia has spurred income growth & dietary enrichment but agricultural failure in Africa has left one-third of all citizens undernourished
- & the international markets that link these diverse regions together are subject to sudden disruption The second edition of Food Politics has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest developments & research on today's global food landscape including biofuels the international food market food aid obesity food retailing urban agriculture & food safety The second edition also features an expanded discussion of the links between water climate change & food as well as farming & the environment New chapters look at livestock meat & fish & the future of food politics Paarlberg's book challenges myths & critiques more than a few of today's fashionable beliefs about farming & food For those ready to have their thinking about food politics informed & also challenged this is the book to read
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In sixty-four bite-sized pieces of advice Michael Pollan's Food Rules tells you everything you need to know to eat healthily dine happily & live well Eat food Mostly plants Not too much Using those seven simple words as his guide internationally-acclaimed food journalist Michael Pollan offers this indispensable handbook for anyone concerned about health & food Sensible easy to use & written in plain English Food Rules is a set of memorable adages or designed to help you eat real food in reasonable amounts gathered from a wide variety of sources nutritionists anthropologists ancient cultures
- & grandmothers Whether at the supermarket a restaurant or an all-you-can-eat buffet this handy pocket-size resource is the perfect manual for anyone who would like to become more mindful of the food we eat ' In more than four decades I have come across nothing more intelligent sensible & simple to follow than these principles' The New York Times ' Instantly makes redundant all diet books & 99 per cent of discussions around healthy eating Sense at last' Daily Mail praise for In Defence of Food ' Pollan invites us to grab our pots & pans & cook some real food for dinner' Time Out praise for In Defence of Food ' Read this witty book for a healthier life & diet' The Times praise for In Defence of Food Michael Pollan has been writing for over twenty years about the places where the human & natural worlds intersect food agriculture gardens drugs & architecture The Omnivore's Dilemma about the ethics & ecology of eating was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times & the Washington Post He is also the author of The Botany of Desire A Place of My Own & Second Nature & most recently In Defence of Food
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This book helps in Achieving food safety success which requires going beyond traditional training testing & inspectional approaches to managing risks It requires a better understanding of the human

Dimensions of food safety In the field of food safety today much is documented about specific microbes timetemperature processes post-process contamination & HACCP-things often called the hard sciences There is not much published or discussed related to human behavior-often referred to as the soft stuff However looking at foodborne disease trends over the past few decades & published regulatory out-of-compliance rates of food safety risk factors it's clear that the soft stuff is still the hard stuff Despite the fact that thousands of employees have been trained in food safety around the world millions have been spent globally on food safety research & countless inspections & tests have been performed at home & abroad food safety remains a significant public health challenge Why is that? Because to improve food safety we must realize that it's more than just food science; it's the behavioral sciences too In fact simply put food safety equals behavior This is the fundamental principle of this book If you are trying to improve the food safety performance of a retail or food service establishment an organization with thousands of employees or a local community what you are really trying to do is change people's behavior The ability to influence human behavior is well documented in the behavioral & social sciences However significant contributions to the scientific literature in the field of food safety are noticeably absent This book will help advance the science by being the first significant collection of 50 proven behavioral science techniques & be the first to show how these techniques can be applied to enhance employee compliance with desired food safety behaviors & make food safety the social norm in any organization

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Global food price spikes in 2008 & again in 2011 coincided with a surge of political unrest in low- & middle-income countries Angry consumers took to the streets in scores of nations In some places food riots turned violent pressuring governments & in a few cases contributed to their overthrow Foreign investors sparked a new global land rush adding a different set of pressures With scientists cautioning that the world has entered a new era of steadily rising food prices perhaps aggravated by climate change the specter of widespread food insecurity & sociopolitical instability weighs on policymakers worldwide In the past few years governments & philanthropic foundations began redoubling efforts to resuscitate agricultural research & technology transfer as well as to accelerate the modernization of food value chains to deliver high quality food inexpensively faster & in greater volumes to urban consumers But will these efforts suffice? This volume explores the complex relationship between food security & sociopolitical stability up to roughly 2025 Organized around a series of original essays by leading global technical experts a key message of this volume is that actions taken in an effort to address food security stressors may have consequences for food security stability or both that ultimately matter far more than the direct impacts of biophysical drivers such as climate or land or water scarcity The means by which governments firms & private philanthropies tackle the food security challenge of the coming decade will fundamentally shape the relationship between food security & sociopolitical stability ...

Food Trails continues Lonely Planet's 52 Perfect Weekends series by exploring destinations famed for their food & drink Discover 52 amazing itineraries for delicious days out in places such as Puglia Paris Melbourne & New Orleans with recommendations for where to stay what to do & of course what to eat 320 pages No Lonely Planet ...