Agriculture & Food
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First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
$21.99 Add to cartWe are not born knowing what to eat; as omnivores it is something we each have to figure out for ourselves. From childhood onward, we learn how big a “portion” is and how sweet is too sweet. We learn … [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Bee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0465094120
- Language: English
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What We Talk about When We Talk about Dumplings
$17.95 Add to cartSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 TASTE CANADA AWARD FOR CULINARY NARRATIVES
Featured on “The Sunday Magazine” on CBC Radio
Nearly every culture has a variation on the dumpling: histories, treatises, family lege
- Author: Lorinc, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1552454525
- Language: English
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Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-To-Table History of How Beef Changed America
$25.27 Add to cartHow beef conquered America and gave rise to the modern industrial food system
By the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor had come to expect high-quality fresh beef with almost every meal.- Series: Histories of Economic Life #3
- Author: Specht, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0691209189
- Language: English
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The Pig and I: The Tale of Our Relationship with a Beast We Eat
$28.95 Add to cartIn this lively and fascinating book, a guilt-ridden, bacon-loving journalist finds work at an industrial pig farm as he researches the long and torrid history of humans and swine.
After convincing a s- Author: Endresen, Kristoffer Hattleland
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1771649909
- Language: English
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Beyond Beliefs: A Guide to Improving Relationships and Communication for Vegans, Vegetarians, and Meat Eaters
$15.00 Read more“Vegans, vegetarians, and meat eaters can feel like they’re living in different worlds. Many vegans and vegetarians struggle to feel understood and respected in a meat-eating culture, where some of th… [more below]
- Author: Joy, Melanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1590565800
- Language: English
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40 Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World
$21.00 Add to cartWith a foreword by Warren Buffett, 40 Chances is an “inspiring manifesto…both an informative guidebook and a catalyst for igniting real changes” (Booklist) in the struggle against world hunger.If so… [more below]
- Author: Buffett, Howard G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 21 2014
- ISBN10: 1451687877
- Language: English
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Beer Places: The Microgeographies of Craft Beer
$29.95 Add to cartBeer Places is, most essentially, a road map for craft beer, taking readers to various locales to discover the beverage’s deep connections to place. At another level, Beer Places is an academic analys… [more below]
- Series: Food and Foodways
- Author: Harvey, Daina Cheyenne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1682262235
- Language: English
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Feeding Each Other: Shaping Change in Food Systems Through Relationship
$23.95 Read more‘The global food system is sick, and almost everyone knows it. But this bold, big-hearted book doesn’t stop at diagnosing the problem–though it does that incisively and with style. If a just, more jo
- Series: Resetting Our Future
- Author: Auerbach, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 180341488X
- Language: English
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Dinner on Mars: The Technologies That Will Feed the Red Planet and Transform Agriculture on Earth
$19.95 Read more“This culinary cosmic outing is as creative as it is informative.” — STARRED review, Publishers Weekly
From Impossible Burgers to lab-made sushi, two witty, plugged-in food scientists explore lead
- Author: Newman, Lenore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1770416625
- Language: English
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Our Changing Menu: Climate Change and the Foods We Love and Need
$21.95 Add to cartOur Changing Menu unpacks the increasingly complex relationships between food and climate change. Whether you’re a chef, baker, distiller, restaurateur, or someone who simply enjoys a good pizza or dr
- Author: Hoffmann, Michael P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1501754629
- Language: English
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Pennsylvania Scrapple: A Delectable History
$23.99 Add to cartJoin author Amy Strauss as she traces the sizzling history and culture of a beloved and sustaining Pennsylvania Dutch iconic dish, scrapple.
The name may remind you of a certain word-based board game,
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Strauss, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 09 2017
- ISBN10: 162585885X
- Language: English
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Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food
$24.99 Add to cartAs late as the 1960s, tacos were virtually unknown outside Mexico and the American Southwest. Within fifty years the United States had shipped taco shells everywhere from Alaska to Australia, Morocco … [more below]
- Author: Pilcher, Jeffrey M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0190655771
- Language: English
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Cheese and Culture: A History of Cheese and Its Place in Western Civilization
$26.95 Add to cartBehind every traditional type of cheese there is a fascinating story. By examining the role of the cheesemaker throughout world history and by understanding a few basic principles of cheese science an
- Author: Kindstedt, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1603585060
- Language: English
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The New California Wine: A Guide to the Producers and Wines Behind a Revolution in Taste
$35.00 Add to cartA comprehensive guide to the must-know wines and producers of California’s “new generation,” and the story of the iconoclastic young winemakers who have changed the face of California viniculture in r… [more below]
- Author: Bonné, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1607743000
- Language: English
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Plundering the North: A History of Settler Colonialism, Corporate Welfare, and Food Insecurity
$27.95 Add to cartThe manufacturing of a chronic food crisis
Food insecurity in the North is one of Canada’s most shameful public health and human rights crises. In Plundering the North, Kristin Burnett and Travis Hay
- Author: Burnett, Kristin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1772840491
- Language: English
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Stewards of Eden: What Scripture Says about the Environment and Why It Matters
$23.99 Add to cartECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award
Biblical Foundations Book Award Winner
Sandra L. Richter cares about the Bible. She also cares about creation.
An expert in ancient Israelite society and economy as well a
- Author: Richter, Sandra L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0830849262
- Language: English
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Catfish Dream: Ed Scott’s Fight for His Family Farm and Racial Justice in the Mississippi Delta
$26.95 Add to cartCatfish Dream centers around the experiences, family, and struggles of Ed Scott Jr. (born in 1922), a prolific farmer in the Mississippi Delta and the first ever nonwhite owner and operator of a catfi
- Series: Southern Foodways Alliance Studies in Culture, People, and P #2
- Author: Rankin, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 10 2018
- ISBN10: 0820353590
- Language: English
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The Truth about Baked Beans: An Edible History of New England
$34.00 Add to cartForages through New England’s most famous foods for the truth behind the region’s culinary myths
Meg Muckenhoupt begins with a simple question: When did Bostonians start making Boston Baked Beans? Sto- Series: Washington Mews Books
- Author: Muckenhoupt, Meg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1479882763
- Language: English
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Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third Worl
$19.95 Add to cartThis global environmental and political history “will redefine the way we think about the European colonial project” (Observer).
” . . . sets the triumph of the late 19th-century Western imperialism… [more below]- Series: Essential Mike Davis
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1784786624
- Language: English
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Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All
$15.99 Add to cartA host of books and films in recent years have documented the dangers of our current food system, from chemical runoff to soaring rates of diet-related illness to inhumane treatment of workers and ani… [more below]
- Author: Hesterman, Oran B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 05 2012
- ISBN10: 1610391020
- Language: English
