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American Wasteland How America Throws Away Nearly Half Of Its Food (and What We Can Do About It)
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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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 it matters, and how you can make a difference starting in your own kitchen—reducing waste and saving money. Interviews with experts...
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 it matters, and how you can make a difference starting in your own kitchen—reducing waste and saving money. Interviews with experts such as chef Alice Waters and food psychologist Brian Wansink, among others, uncover not only how and why we waste, but, most importantly, what we can do about it.
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Food Studies Online
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Jonathan Bloom, fl. 2010
Date Published / Released
2010, 2011
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Topic / Theme
Waste disposal, Food industry, End food waste movement, Early 21st Century United States (2001– )
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Copyright © 2010 by Perseus Books Group
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14: CANTINAS AND DRINKERS IN MEXICO
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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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 biological needs to communicating with humans and the hereafter, attempting to reach a differential emotional state or seeking good hea...
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 biological needs to communicating with humans and the hereafter, attempting to reach a differential emotional state or seeking good health and longevity through the ingestion of appropriate beverages. It includes papers from both biological and social scientists and covers a fair range of societies from rural and urban environments, and in continents and countries ranging from Europe, Africa, and Latin America to Malaysia and the Pacific.
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Field of Study
Food Studies Online
Content Type
Book, Chapter
Contributor
Valerie de Garine, fl. 2001, Igor de Garine, 1931-
Author / Creator
Ricardo Avila Palafox, fl. 2001
Date Published / Released
2001
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Series
Anthropology of Food and Nutrition
Topic / Theme
Beverages, Social drinking, Cultural anthropology, Bars and saloons, Early 21st Century United States (2001– ), Mexicans
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Copyright © 2001 by Berghahn Books
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Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took On the Food Industry (2nd Updated Edition)
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)
Field of Study
Food Studies Online
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Warren J. Belasco, fl. 2011
Date Published / Released
2007
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Topic / Theme
Food industry, Social movements, Counterculture, The Sixties (1960–1974)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2007 by Pantheon Books
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At Table, Predictable Pleasures: Food and the Pursuit of Balance in Rural Yucatán
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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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, Predictable Pleasures explores the desire for balance in this region and the many ways it manifests in human interactions with food. A...
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, Predictable Pleasures explores the desire for balance in this region and the many ways it manifests in human interactions with food. As shifting social conditions, especially a decline in agriculture and a deepening reliance on regional tourism, transform the manners in which people work and eat, residents of this community grapple with new ways of surviving and finding pleasure.
Lauren A. Wynne examines the convergence of food and balance through deep analysis of what locals describe as acts of care. Drawing together rich ethnographic data on how people produce, exchange, consume, and talk about food, this book posits food as an accessible, pleasurable, and deeply important means by which people in rural Yucatan make clear what matters to them, finding balance in a world that seems increasingly imbalanced.
Unlike many studies of globalization that point to the dissolution of local social bonds and practices, Predictable Pleasures presents an array of enduring values and practices, tracing their longevity to the material constraints of life in rural Yucatan, the deep historical and cosmological significance of food in this region, and the stubborn nature of bodily habits and tastes.
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Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Book
Contributor
Sherrie Flick, 1967-
Author / Creator
Lauren A. Wynne, fl. 2012
Date Published / Released
2020
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Series
At Table
Topic / Theme
Food and Commodities, Cultural communities, Tourism industry, Local foods, Agriculture, Social customs, Anthropology, Sociology, Yucatan Maya, 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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Copyright © 2020 University of Nebraska Press
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5. Jazz Era and Talent Pool
written by John M. Brewer, Jr.; in African Americans in Pittsburgh, Black America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing), 55-66
African Americans in Pittsburgh chronicles the distinct trends in this African American community. There was never one centralized neighborhood where a majority of the black population lived, and city schools were integrated until after desegregation laws were passed. Photographs captured by famed Pittsburgh photo...
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written by John M. Brewer, Jr.; in African Americans in Pittsburgh, Black America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing), 55-66
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African Americans in Pittsburgh chronicles the distinct trends in this African American community. There was never one centralized neighborhood where a majority of the black population lived, and city schools were integrated until after desegregation laws were passed. Photographs captured by famed Pittsburgh photographer Charles “Teenie” Harris show the candid experiences of residents, including the achievements and celebrations of people str...
African Americans in Pittsburgh chronicles the distinct trends in this African American community. There was never one centralized neighborhood where a majority of the black population lived, and city schools were integrated until after desegregation laws were passed. Photographs captured by famed Pittsburgh photographer Charles “Teenie” Harris show the candid experiences of residents, including the achievements and celebrations of people struggling to put scraps of food on the table.
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
John M. Brewer, Jr.
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Series
Black America
Topic / Theme
Entertainment industry, Jazz music, Afar
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2006 by John M. Brewer Jr., with photographs from the Pittsburgh Courier and the Carnegie Museum of Art
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African-American Entertainment in Baltimore
in Black America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2002), 128 page(s),
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in Black America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2002), 128 page(s),
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Book
Date Published / Released
2002
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Series
Black America
Topic / Theme
Entertainment industry, African-Americans, Ethnic groups
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2003 by Rosa Pryor-Trusty and Tonya Taliaferro
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2. Industrious Laborers
written by Leola Clement Robinson; in Greenville County, South Carolina, Black America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007), 17-28
Cradled at the foothills of the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains and once known as the “Textile Center of the South,” Greenville has evolved into a prosperous hub for corporate development and global commerce. Greenville County’s African American community, proud and resourceful, has strong roots dating back t...
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written by Leola Clement Robinson; in Greenville County, South Carolina, Black America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007), 17-28
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Cradled at the foothills of the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains and once known as the “Textile Center of the South,” Greenville has evolved into a prosperous hub for corporate development and global commerce. Greenville County’s African American community, proud and resourceful, has strong roots dating back to 1770, when blacks helped to carve the county out of an upstate wilderness. The experiences of the black community and its long relati...
Cradled at the foothills of the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains and once known as the “Textile Center of the South,” Greenville has evolved into a prosperous hub for corporate development and global commerce. Greenville County’s African American community, proud and resourceful, has strong roots dating back to 1770, when blacks helped to carve the county out of an upstate wilderness. The experiences of the black community and its long relationship with whites up to the civil rights movement helped to create the climate for the kaleidoscope of races and cultures in Greenville today.
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Leola Clement Robinson
Date Published / Released
2007
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Series
Black America
Topic / Theme
Industrialization, Afar
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2007 by Leola Clement Robinson-Simpson
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Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide
written by Hilary Beckles, 1955- (Kingston, Kingston Parish: University of the West Indies, 2013), 311 page(s)
Since the mid-nineteenth-century abolition of slavery, the call for reparations for the crime of African enslavement and native genocide has been growing. In the Caribbean, grassroots and official voices now constitute a regional reparations movement. While it remains a fractured, contentious and divisive call, it...
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written by Hilary Beckles, 1955- (Kingston, Kingston Parish: University of the West Indies, 2013), 311 page(s)
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Since the mid-nineteenth-century abolition of slavery, the call for reparations for the crime of African enslavement and native genocide has been growing. In the Caribbean, grassroots and official voices now constitute a regional reparations movement. While it remains a fractured, contentious and divisive call, it generates considerable public interest, especially within sections of the community that are concerned with issues of social justice,...
Since the mid-nineteenth-century abolition of slavery, the call for reparations for the crime of African enslavement and native genocide has been growing. In the Caribbean, grassroots and official voices now constitute a regional reparations movement. While it remains a fractured, contentious and divisive call, it generates considerable public interest, especially within sections of the community that are concerned with issues of social justice, equity, civil and human rights, education, and cultural identity. The reparations discourse has been shaped by the voices from these fields as they seek to build a future upon the settlement of historical crimes.This is the first scholarly work that looks comprehensively at the reparations discussion in the Caribbean. Written by a leading economic historian of the region, a seasoned activist in the wider movement for social justice and advocacy of historical truth, Britain’s Black Debt looks at the origins and development of reparations as a regional and international process. Weaving detailed historical data on Caribbean slavery and the transatlantic slave trade together with legal principles and the politics of postcolonialism, Beckles sets out a solid academic analysis of the evidence. He concludes that Britain has a case of reparations to answer which the Caribbean should litigate.International law provides that chattel slavery as practised by Britain was a crime against humanity. Slavery was invested in by the royal family, the government, the established church, most elite families, and large public institutions in the private and public sector. Citing the legal principles of unjust and criminal enrichment, the author presents a compelling argument for Britain’s payment of its black debt, a debt that it continues to deny in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.It is at once an exciting narration of Britain’s dominance of the slave markets that enriched the economy and a seminal conceptual journey into the hidden politics and public posturing of leaders on both sides of the Atlantic. No work of this kind has ever been attempted. No author has had the diversity of historical research skills, national and international political involvement, and personal engagement as an activist to present such a complex yet accessible work of scholarship.
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Hilary Beckles, 1955-
Date Published / Released
2013
Publisher
University of the West Indies
Topic / Theme
International laws, Genocide, Slave trade, Slavery, Reparations, British, Caribbean and West Indians
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Copyright © 2013 Hilary McD. Beckles
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By-products in the Packing Industry
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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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, and animal feed. There is also a chapter on accounting and business management of by-product manufacturing.
Field of Study
Food Studies Online
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Rudolf Alexander Clemen, 1893-1969
Date Published / Released
1927
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Topic / Theme
Meats and poultry, Food industry, Consumer products, Waste disposal, Butchering, World War I & Jazz Age (1914–1928)
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California Studies in Food and Culture, Sameness in Diversity: Food and Globalization in Modern America
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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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 1960s: immigrants have created demand for produce and other foods from their homelands; grocers and food processors have sought to market...
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 1960s: immigrants have created demand for produce and other foods from their homelands; grocers and food processors have sought to market new foods; and transportation improvements have enabled food companies to bring those foods from afar. Yet, even as choices within stores have exploded, supermarket chains have consolidated. Throughout the food industry, fewer companies manage production and distribution, controlling what American consumers can access. Mining a wealth of menus, cookbooks, trade publications, interviews, and company records, Jayasanker explores Americans’ changing eating habits to shed light on the impact of immigration and globalization on American culture.
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Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Book
Contributor
Darra Goldstein, fl. 2006
Author / Creator
Laresh Jayasanker, 1972-2018
Date Published / Released
2020
Publisher
University of California Press
Series
California Studies in Food and Culture
Topic / Theme
Food and Commodities, Immigration and emigration, Food industry, Globalization, Restaurants, Diet and food, Economics, Global Consumerism, 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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Copyright © 2020 University of California Press
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