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American Wasteland How America Throws Away Nearly Half Of Its Food (and What We Can Do About It)
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written by Jonathan Bloom, fl. 2010 (New York, NY: Da Capo Press, 2011, originally published 2010), 392 page(s)
Grocery prices and the forsaken foods at the back of your fridge seem to increase weekly. After reading American Wasteland, you will never look at your shopping list, refrigerator, plate, or wallet the same way again. Jonathan Bloom wades into the garbage heap to unearth what our squandered food says about us, why...
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written by Jonathan Bloom, fl. 2010 (New York, NY: Da Capo Press, 2011, originally published 2010), 392 page(s)
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14: CANTINAS AND DRINKERS IN MEXICO
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written by Ricardo Avila Palafox, fl. 2001; edited by Valerie de Garine, fl. 2001 and Igor de Garine, 1931-; in Drinking: Anthropological Approaches, Anthropology of Food and Nutrition, Volume 4 (New York, NY: Berghahn Books, 2001, originally published 2001), 169-180
Over the last decades quite a few studies have been devoted to drinking. Most of these were concerned with alcohol and written by social anthropologists. This book presents multidisciplinary aspects of the ingestion of liquids at large, addressing many of the overt and covert meanings of drinking: from satisfying...
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written by Ricardo Avila Palafox, fl. 2001; edited by Valerie de Garine, fl. 2001 and Igor de Garine, 1931-; in Drinking: Anthropological Approaches, Anthropology of Food and Nutrition, Volume 4 (New York, NY: Berghahn Books, 2001, originally published 2001), 169-180
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Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took On the Food Industry (2nd Updated Edition)
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written by Warren J. Belasco, fl. 2011 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007), 327 page(s)
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written by Warren J. Belasco, fl. 2011 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007), 327 page(s)
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At Table, Predictable Pleasures: Food and the Pursuit of Balance in Rural Yucatán
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written by Lauren A. Wynne, fl. 2012; edited by Sherrie Flick, 1967-, in At Table (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2020, originally published 2020), 275 page(s)
The pursuit of balance pervades everyday life in rural Yucatan, Mexico, from the delicate negotiations between a farmer and the neighbor who wants to buy his beans to the careful addition of sour orange juice to a rich plate of eggs fried in lard. Based on intensive fieldwork in one indigenous Yucatecan community,...
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written by Lauren A. Wynne, fl. 2012; edited by Sherrie Flick, 1967-, in At Table (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2020, originally published 2020), 275 page(s)
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By-products in the Packing Industry
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written by Rudolf Alexander Clemen, 1893-1969 (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1927, originally published 1927), 482 page(s)
This book, by Rudolf A. Clemen, is about utilizing the by-products produced by the meat-packing industry in order to turn waste into a source of revenue and increase profits. Some of the by-products discussed are hides and skins, wool and hair, fats, oils, and greases, soap, pharmaceuticals, glues, fertilizers, an...
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written by Rudolf Alexander Clemen, 1893-1969 (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1927, originally published 1927), 482 page(s)
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California Studies in Food and Culture, Sameness in Diversity: Food and Globalization in Modern America
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written by Laresh Jayasanker, 1972-2018; edited by Darra Goldstein, fl. 2006, in California Studies in Food and Culture (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020, originally published 2020), 472 page(s)
Americans of the 1960s would have trouble navigating the grocery aisles and restaurant menus of today. Once-exotic ingredients—like mangoes, hot sauces, kale, kimchi, and coconut milk—have become standard in the contemporary American diet. Laresh Jayasanker explains how food choices have expanded since the 196...
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written by Laresh Jayasanker, 1972-2018; edited by Darra Goldstein, fl. 2006, in California Studies in Food and Culture (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020, originally published 2020), 472 page(s)
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Family and Social Change: The Household as a Process in an Industrializing Community
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written by Angélique Janssens, 1955-, in Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time, 21 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1993, originally published 1993), 342 page(s)
This book examines the effects of nineteenth-century industrialization on the strength of relationships within the family and between generations. Dr. Janssens' quantitative approach, based on Dutch population registers, reveals a new perspective: although family life did go through some changes, early industriali...
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written by Angélique Janssens, 1955-, in Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time, 21 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1993, originally published 1993), 342 page(s)
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Challenged Hegemony: The United States, China, and Russia in the Persian Gulf
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written by Katerina Oskarsson and Steve A. Yetiv (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018), 253 page(s)
Few issues in international affairs and energy security animate thinkers more than the classic topic of hegemony, and the case of the Persian Gulf presents particularly fertile ground for considering this concept. Since the 1970s, the region has undergone tumultuous changes, with dramatic shifts in the diplomatic,...
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written by Katerina Oskarsson and Steve A. Yetiv (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018), 253 page(s)
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Cheap Meat: Flap Food Nations in the Pacific Islands
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written by Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010, originally published 2010), 196 page(s)
Cheap Meat follows the controversial trade in inexpensive fatty cuts of lamb or mutton, called "flaps," from the farms of New Zealand and Australia to their primary markets in the Pacific islands of Papua New Guinea, Tonga, and Fiji. Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington address the evolution of the meat trade i...
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written by Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010, originally published 2010), 196 page(s)
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China's Rise, Asia's Decline
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written by William Bratton, fl. 2014 (Singapore: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia), 2021, originally published 2021), 265 page(s)
China's rise will be long-term punitive for the rest of Asia. Across all aspects of Asian geopolitics and economics, China's ascendency to regional hegemonic status will result in the decline of its neighbours' political independence, economic dynamism and future growth potential. Any short-term benefits of China'...
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written by William Bratton, fl. 2014 (Singapore: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia), 2021, originally published 2021), 265 page(s)
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