"Outstanding . . . a wide-ranging invitation to think through the moral ramifications of our eating habits." —The New Yorker One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year and Winner of the James Beard Award Author of ...

Focusing on the Spanish Empire, Marcy Norton investigates how tobacco and chocolate became material and symbolic links to the pre-Hispanic past for colonized Indians and colonizing Europeans alike.

"A poetic and remarkably fertile exploration of the relationship between human beings and the natural environment."—Pankaj Mishra, The Guardian "I'm very grateful to have this book."—Ursula K. Le Guin The acclaimed and award-winning ...

After reading this book, visiting a cheese counter will never be the same!”—Theodore C. Bestor, author of Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World “Anyone who loves cheese will find The Life of Cheese a fascinating read, ...

Woven throughout the book is the story of Soul Fire Farm, a national leader in the food justice movement.--AMAZON.

The exchange of goods, ideas, cultural practices, and genes along these ancient routes extends back five thousand years, and organized trade along the Silk Road dates to at least Han Dynasty China in the second century BC. Balancing a broad ...

How your food choices afffect your health, happiness, and the future of life on earth.

In this essay, the mechanisms of biological, social and cultural nature linking subsistence, mortality and population are discussed.

Addressing issues ranging from the global phenomenon of Coca-Cola to the diets of American slaves, Sidney Mintz shows how our choices about food are shaped by a vast and increasingly complex global economy.

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