Cultural studies: food and society Books

Book SynopsisCaptures the language that explains culinary practices. To prove its case, this book draws on a range of cultural documents from interviews, cookbooks, and novels to comic strips, essays, and films.Trade Review"Ferguson provides interesting insights on a range of people, topics, and social trends." -- C. Hendrickson CHOICETable of ContentsPrologue: Talking About Food Part I: From Talk to Text 1. Thinking About Food 2. The Perils and Pleasures of Consumption 3. Texts Take Over Part II: New Cooks, New Chefs 4. Iconic Cooks 5. Chefs and Chefing Part III: The Culinary Landscape in the Twenty-First Century 6. Dining on the Edge 7. Haute Food Epilogue: Last Words-Ratatouille Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTasty, convenient, and cheap, instant noodles are one of the most remarkable industrial foods ever. Consumed around the world by millions, they appeal to young and old, affluent and impoverished alike. This title examines the history, manufacturing, marketing, and consumption of instant noodles.Trade Review"Three anthropologists, intrigued by the presence of instant noodles everywhere from the wealthiest college campuses to the poorest cities of the developing world, decided to chronicle the food’s emergence in Japan, the United States, and Papua New Guinea. In their new book, The Noodle Narratives: The Global Rise of an Industrial Food into the Twenty-First Century, Deborah Gewertz of Amherst College, Frederick Errington of Trinity College, and Tatsuro Fujikura at Kyoto University show just how much can depend on one affordable, portable, dehydrated food." * Boston Globe *"Ask about the foods that have conquered the world and you're likely to hear about Coca-Cola and McDonald's Big Macs. But the most successful industrial food ever produced flies far under the radar. And it has finally been outed by three anthropologists in a fascinating new book The Noodle Narratives, which analyzes the precipitous rise—or "brilliant career," as the authors say—of instant ramen, from its birth in postwar Japan to its sales of just over 100 billion servings worldwide in 2012." * The Salt *"This book is a tour of the past, present and future of "one of the most remarkable industrial foods ever,” and makes the case that its humble role will become even more important in feeding an increasingly huge human population." * Food Management *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Table Acknowledgments Introduction: Instant Noodles as Quotidian and Ubiquitous 1. The Taste of Something Good 2. Japanese Instant Noodles in the Market and on the Mind 3. What Instant Noodles Reflect and Affect in America 4. Instant Noodles for the Bottom of the Pyramid in Papua New Guinea 5. Making (and Unmaking?) a Big Food World Conclusion: Big Food for a Huge Population? Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTracing maize from its first appearance and domestication in ancient campsites and settlements in Mexico to its intercontinental journey through most of North and South America, this book tells the story of the technological prowess, social, political, and economic resilience of America's first peoples.Trade Review"Blake lays out a fine and factual feast." -- Bob Grant The Scientist "My recommendation: make yourself a nice bowl of popcorn and settle down with Blake's book for a story as remarkable as the snack you are enjoying." -- Laurence A. Marschall Natural History Magazine "An engrossing scientific excursion." Terrae Incognitae "[Blake's] real triumph lies in his candid explanation and interrogation of modern research methods of maize: everything from archaeological dating and genetic investigation to microscopic analysis and ancient dietary reconstruction. In the end, what emerges is a complex narrative of reciprocal dependence. As Blake succinctly puts it, 'humans grow maize and maize grows humans'." Current World ArchaeologyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Archaeology of Maize 2. The Place of Maize in (Agri)cultural Origin Stories 3. Old Puzzles and New Questions about Maize's Origins and Spread 4. Timing Is Everything: Dating Maize 5. Maize through a Magnifying Glass: Macroremains 6. Maize through a Microscope: Microremains 7. Elemental Maize: Tracing Maize Isotopically 8. Genetically Modifi ed Maize the Old Way-By Agriculture 9. Daily Tools and Sacred Symbols Notes Glossary References Index Contents

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Book SynopsisOffers an account of geopolitics and industrialization in Japan. This book traces the meteoric rise of ramen from humble fuel for the working poor to international icon of Japanese culture.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. National Food 1 1. Street Life: Chinese Noodles for Japanese Workers 2. Not an Easy Road: Black Market Ramen and the U.S. Occupation 3. Move On Up: Fuel for Rapid Growth 4. Like It Is, Like It Was: Rebranding Ramen 5. Flavor of the Month: American Ramen and "Cool Japan" Conclusion. Time Will Tell: A Food of Opposition Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisCalories - too few or too many - are the source of health problems affecting billions of people in today's globalized world. This title explains in clear and accessible language what calories are and how they work, both biologically and politically.Trade Review"A feast for the mind." Nature "The most succinct diet book ever written." The Scientist "People should read this book. They should read it if they are obsessive weight-watchers or serial dieters, or just concerned about what their children eat. They should read it if they work in public health, the food industry, catering, or education." Times Higher Education "Along with offering a fascinating history, they show how an understanding of calorie needs saved lives in the global fight against hunger." -- Emily Kaiser Thelin The Wall Street Journal "Takes the science of calories and breaks it down for the rest of us." San Francisco Chronicle "This book will help dispel many of the commonly held myths we have about eating. An informative and interesting read for those who want to know the science behind calories, food and weight." Huffington Post Books "Does the seemingly impossible: it takes calories from the abstract to the concrete. Nestle and Nesheim explain the significance of the calorie not only in understandable scientific terms, but also in social terms with the explicit aim of helping their reader navigate the convoluted world of food labels and diet fads." Civil Eats "Presents an interesting series of opinions and overviews that are deserving of a wider audience." yum.fiTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One. Understanding Calories: It All Starts with the Science 1. What Is a Calorie? 2. The History: From Ancient Greece to Modern Calorie Science 3. Foods: How Scientists Count the Calories 4. Bodies: How Scientists Measure the Use of Calories Part Two. Why You Need Calories: Survival, Warmth, and Work 5. Metabolism: How the Body Turns Food into Energy 6. The First Use of Calories: Basic Life Functions 7. The Second Use: Heat Losses while Metabolizing Food 8. The Third Use: Physical Activity Part Three. Calorie Intake and Its Regulation 9. How Many Calories Do You Need? 10. Calorie Confusion: The Struggle to Estimate Intake 11. Secret Calories: Alcohol 12. Calorie Regulation: The Body’s Complex Weight Management System Part Four. Too Few Calories 13. Starvation and Its Effects on the Body 14. Individuals, Communities, Nations: Calories and Global Hunger 15. Could Restricting Calories Prolong Human Life? Part Five. Too Many Calories 16. An Introduction to Obesity 17. Calories and Weight Gain: Another Complex Relationship 18. Do Excess Calories Make Some People Gain Weight Faster than Others? 19. Are All Calories Created Equal? 20. Do Some Kinds of Diets Work Better than Others? Part Six. The Politics of Calories: A Closer Look 21. Today’s “Eat More” Environment: The Role of the Food Industry 22. More Calorie Confusion: Portion Distortion, Health Halos,and Wishful Thinking 23. Calorie Labeling: Science and Politics 24. Alcohol Labels: Industry vs. Consumers 25. Will Calorie Labels Help Fight Obesity? Conclusion: How to Cope with the Calorie Environment Appendix One. Selected Events in the History of Calories, 1614 – 1919 Appendix Two. The Respiratory Quotient (RQ) Appendix Three. Frequently Asked Questions Notes List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisFood and cuisine are important subjects for historians across many areas of study. Food, after all, is one of the most basic human needs and a foundational part of social and cultural histories. This book delivers an unprecedented review of the state of historical research on food, endorsed by the American Historical Association.Trade Review"Any remaining doubts about the legitimacy of food history are put to rest by this edited volume." -- A. B. Audant CHOICETable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface Paul Freedman Introduction: Food History as a Field Warren Belasco Part One: Regional Histories 1. Premodern Europe Ken Albala 2. China E.{ths}N. Anderson 3. India Jayanta Sengupta 4. Out of Africa: A Brief Guide to African Food History Jessica B. Harris 5. Middle Eastern Food History Charles Perry 6. Latin American Food between Export Liberalism and the Via Campesina Jeffrey M. Pilcher 7. Food and the Material Origins of Early America Joyce E. Chaplin 8. Food in Recent U.S. History Amy Bentley and Hi'ilei Hobart 9. Influence, Sources, and African Diaspora Foodways Frederick Douglass Opie 10. Migration, Transnational Cuisines, and Invisible Ethnics Krishnendu Ray Part Two: Cuisine 11. The French Invention of Modern Cuisine Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson 12. Restaurants Paul Freedman 13. Cookbooks as Resources for Social History Barbara Ketcham Wheaton Part Three: Problems 14. The Revolt against Homogeneity Amy B. Trubek 15. Food and Popular Culture Fabio Parasecoli 16. Post-1945 Global Food Developments Peter Scholliers List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisExamines culinary writing and practices as forces for the production of social order and, at the same time, points of cultural resistance. This book offers a close reading of a wide variety of sources and genres to uncover the intersections of food, politics, and privilege in American culture.Trade Review"Unique... thought-provoking... Recommended." CHOICETable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 * "For All Grades of Life": The Making of a Republican Cuisine In Search of an American Cuisine: National Identity and Food "All My Bones Were Made of Indian Corn": Maize, Revolution, and Democracy An American Painter's Palate: Raphaelle Peale's Food Still Lifes Domestic Virtue and Citizenship in the Work of Lydia Maria Child "Bread of Our Mothers": Sylvester Graham and the Health of the Nation Cooking Contest: Regional, Transnational, and Class-Based Cuisines in the Antebellum United States A Republican Cuisine 2 * "Wolf in Chef's Clothing": Manly Cooking and Negotiations of Ideal Masculinity Why the Way to the Heart Is Through the Stomach "Men, Meet the Kitchen": Inventing Manly Cooking Flesh, Blood, and Hemingway: Campfire Cooking and Rugged Masculinities Hard-Boiled Cooking, Femmes Fatales, and American Noir Silver Spoons in Their Hands: The Rise of the Gourmet Playboys in the Kitchen: Manly Cooking in the 1950s and 1960s "Will Cook for Sex": Recipes for Manly Cooking 3 * "The Difference Is Spreading": Recipes for Lesbian Living Serving Heteronormativity--Queering the Menu Labor of Love: Gender Normativity and Contradictions in Nineteenth-Century Cookbooks Tender Mutton: Gertrude Stein's Household Advice "La Cuisine c'est la Femme": The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book What Lesbians Eat: Identity, Food, and Same-Sex Desire How to Cook with Lesbians Digestif: Power, Resistance, and Food Notes Works Cited

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Book SynopsisAsking his readers to think about mapping the processes and locations of digestion, the author moves outward from the stomach to the sanitarium and through the landscape, clarifying the relationship between food, body, and environment at a crucial moment in the emergence of American health food sensibilities.Trade Review"An imaginative contribution to food studies . . . it presents new questions for historians who are bold enough to stomach them." * Winterthur Portfolio *"Taking a step back to consider the bigger picture—restoring historical depth and geographic breadth to ideas about eating badly—lets us see how certain interests have converged to make salty/sugary snacks not just strategic staples for households that cannot access fresh produce, but cherished parts of the cultural iconography. Nicholas Bauch does exactly this in his fascinating A Geography of Digestion: Biotechnology and the Kellogg Cereal Enterprise." * PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review *

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Book SynopsisTracing maize from its first appearance and domestication in ancient campsites and settlements in Mexico to its intercontinental journey through most of North and South America, this book tells the story of the artistic creativity, technological prowess, and social, political, and economic resilience of America's first peoples.Trade Review"Blake lays out a fine and factual feast." -- Bob Grant The Scientist "My recommendation: make yourself a nice bowl of popcorn and settle down with Blake's book for a story as remarkable as the snack you are enjoying." -- Laurence A. Marschall Natural History Magazine "An engrossing scientific excursion." Terrae Incognitae "[Blake's] real triumph lies in his candid explanation and interrogation of modern research methods of maize: everything from archaeological dating and genetic investigation to microscopic analysis and ancient dietary reconstruction. In the end, what emerges is a complex narrative of reciprocal dependence. As Blake succinctly puts it, 'humans grow maize and maize grows humans'." Current World ArchaeologyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Archaeology of Maize 2. The Place of Maize in (Agri)cultural Origin Stories 3. Old Puzzles and New Questions about Maize's Origins and Spread 4. Timing Is Everything: Dating Maize 5. Maize through a Magnifying Glass: Macroremains 6. Maize through a Microscope: Microremains 7. Elemental Maize: Tracing Maize Isotopically 8. Genetically Modifi ed Maize the Old Way-By Agriculture 9. Daily Tools and Sacred Symbols Notes Glossary References Index Contents

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the work of several food justice groups - including Community Services Unlimited, a South Los Angeles organization founded as the nonprofit arm of the Southern California Black Panther Party - this title explores the possibilities and limitations of the community-based approach, and more.Trade Review"More Than Just Food offers critical perspectives on food justice projects-from what Broad characterizes as more obviously flawed white-savior-outsider-led endeavors to the more sympathetically portrayed but still imperfect CSU." International Journal of CommunicationTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Food Justice and Community Change 1 • Networks, Narratives, and Community Action 2 • Food Systems, Food Movements, Food Justice 3 • In a Community Like This 4 • The Youth Food Justice Movement 5 • From the Black Panthers to the USDA 6 • Competing Visions and the Food Justice Brand Conclusion Appendix: A Note on Theory and Method Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisExplores the possibilities and limitations of the community-based approach, offering a networked examination of the food justice movement in the age of the non-profit industrial complex.Trade Review"More Than Just Food offers critical perspectives on food justice projects-from what Broad characterizes as more obviously flawed white-savior-outsider-led endeavors to the more sympathetically portrayed but still imperfect CSU." International Journal of CommunicationTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Food Justice and Community Change 1 • Networks, Narratives, and Community Action 2 • Food Systems, Food Movements, Food Justice 3 • In a Community Like This 4 • The Youth Food Justice Movement 5 • From the Black Panthers to the USDA 6 • Competing Visions and the Food Justice Brand Conclusion Appendix: A Note on Theory and Method Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisAll I Eat Is Medicine charts the lives of individuals and the operation of institutions in the thick of the AIDS epidemic in Mozambique during the global scale-up of treatment for HIV/AIDS at the turn of the twenty-first century. Even as the AIDS treatment scale-up saved lives, it perpetuated the exploitation and exclusion that was implicated in the propagation of the epidemic in the first place. This book calls attention to the global social commitments and responsibilities that a truly therapeutic global health requires.Trade Review"Ippolytos Kalofonos argues for global public health systems to confront the underlying causes of inequities instead of only providing medicine to the ill. In doing so, he explains that hunger, disease, and poverty are interlinked." * FoodTank *"All I Eat is Medicine is a grounded account showing that humanitarianism aid is a double-edged sword." * World Medical & Health Policy *

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Book SynopsisFood and drink has been a focal point of modern social theory since the inception of agrarian capitalism and the industrial revolution. From Adam Smith to Mary Douglas, major thinkers have used key concepts such as identity, exchange, culture, and class to explain the modern food system. Food, Politics, and Society offers a historical and sociological survey of how these various ideas and the practices that accompany them have shaped our understanding and organization of the production, processing, preparation, serving, and consumption of food and drink in modern societies. Divided into twelve chapters and drawing on a wide range of historical and empirical illustrations, this book provides a concise, informed, and accessible survey of the interaction between social theory and food and drink. It is perfect for courses in a wide range of disciplines.Trade Review"[A] well‐researched and well‐written piece of work, worthy of being used both in teaching and as an inspiration for future research projects." * Journal of Agrarian Change *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments vii 1. Introduction: Food, Drink, and Modern Social Theory 1 2. The Natural and the Social: The Agricultural Revolution 21 3. Exchange: The Columbian Exchange and Mercantile Empires 40 4. Culture: Ritual, Prohibition, and Taboo 58 5. Industrialization: Technology, Rationality, and Urbanization 76 6. The Public Sphere: Eating and Drinking in Public 94 7. The Modern State: Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Biopolitics 112 8. Identity: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Religion 130 9. Distinction: Social Diff erence, Taste, and the Civilizing Process 150 10. Political Economy: The Global Food System 169 11. The Self: Food Choices and Public Health 187 12. Consumption: Media, the Domestic Economy, and Celebrity Chefs 206 Notes 223 Select Bibliography 257 Index 265

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Book SynopsisFood and drink has been a focal point of modern social theory since the inception of agrarian capitalism and the industrial revolution. From Adam Smith to Mary Douglas, major thinkers have used key concepts such as identity, exchange, culture, and class to explain the modern food system. Food, Politics, and Society offers a historical and sociological survey of how these various ideas and the practices that accompany them have shaped our understanding and organization of the production, processing, preparation, serving, and consumption of food and drink in modern societies. Divided into twelve chapters and drawing on a wide range of historical and empirical illustrations, this book provides a concise, informed, and accessible survey of the interaction between social theory and food and drink. It is perfect for courses in a wide range of disciplines.Trade Review"[A] well‐researched and well‐written piece of work, worthy of being used both in teaching and as an inspiration for future research projects." * Journal of Agrarian Change *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments vii 1. Introduction: Food, Drink, and Modern Social Theory 1 2. The Natural and the Social: The Agricultural Revolution 21 3. Exchange: The Columbian Exchange and Mercantile Empires 40 4. Culture: Ritual, Prohibition, and Taboo 58 5. Industrialization: Technology, Rationality, and Urbanization 76 6. The Public Sphere: Eating and Drinking in Public 94 7. The Modern State: Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Biopolitics 112 8. Identity: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Religion 130 9. Distinction: Social Diff erence, Taste, and the Civilizing Process 150 10. Political Economy: The Global Food System 169 11. The Self: Food Choices and Public Health 187 12. Consumption: Media, the Domestic Economy, and Celebrity Chefs 206 Notes 223 Select Bibliography 257 Index 265

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Book SynopsisThe New Food Activism explores how food activism can be pushed toward deeper and more complex engagement with social, racial, and economic justice and toward advocating for broader and more transformational shifts in the food system. Topics examined include struggles against pesticides and GMOs, efforts to improve workers' pay and conditions throughout the food system, and ways to push food activism beyond its typical reliance on individualism, consumerism, and private property. The authors challenge and advance existing discourse on consumer trends, food movements, and the intersection of food with racial and economic inequalities.Trade Review"The New Food Activism is a valuable contribution to critical food studies that raises important questions about what kind of food system we, as scholars, organizers, eaters and workers want to see and how we are going to get there." * Antipode *"A shrewdly curated call to action... By depicting the diversity of opposition to conventional food systems and with keen depth of discussion, Alkon and Guthman stoke the embers of the change that has been smoldering for decades within the food system, demonstrating means of resistance that all new activists should emulate." * Graduate Journal of Food Studies *"The New Food Activism is both relevant and timely to ongoing academic conversations about food justice and the alternative food movement within the United States. . . . While this book adds to the critique of the alternative food movement by highlighting the ways in which it is apolitical and nonstrategic, its biggest impact is the illustration of the power of activism that is strategic, political, and collaborative." * Agriculture and Human Values *Table of ContentsPreface 1 * Introduction 1 Alison Hope Alkon and Julie Guthman Part One Regulatory Campaigns 2 * Taking a Different Tack: Pesticide Regulatory-Reform Activism in California Jill Lindsey Harrison 3 * How Canadian Farmers Fought and Won the Battle against GM Wheat Emily Eaton 4 * How Midas Lost Its Golden Touch: Neoliberalism and Activist Strategy in the Demise of Methyl Iodide in California Julie Guthman and Sandy Brown Part Two Working For Workers 5 * Resetting the "Good Food" Table: Labor and Food Justice Alliances in Los Angeles Joshua Sbicca 6 * Food Workers and Consumers Organizing Together for Food Justice Joann Lo and Biko Koenig 7 * Farmworker-Led Food Movements Then and Now: United Farm Workers, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, and the Potential for Farm Labor Justice Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern Part Three Collective Practices 8 * Collective Purchase: Food Cooperatives and Their Pursuit of Justice Andrew Zitcer 9 * Cooperative Social Practices, Self-Determination, and the Struggle for Food Justice in Oakland and Chicago Meleiza Figueroa and Alison Hope Alkon 10 * Urban Agriculture, Food Justice, and Neoliberal Urbanization: Rebuilding the Institution of Property Michelle Glowa 11 * Boston's Emerging Food Solidarity Economy Penn Loh and Julian Agyeman 12 * Grounding the U.S. Food Movement: Bringing Land into Food Justice Tanya M. Kerssen and Zoe W. Brent 13 * Conclusion: A New Food Politics Alison Hope Alkon and Julie Guthman Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisLess than a half century ago, China experienced a cataclysmic famine, which was particularly devastating in the countryside. This book examines the role of food in one rural Chinese community, as it has shaped everyday lives over the course of several tumultuous decades.Trade Review"Bitter and Sweet is a rich and detailed ethnography that makes a convincing case for following food through its transformations as it is created, exchanged and consumed to reveal myriad themes of contemporary social life, what I would call a “gustemological” approach to culture." * Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition *"This is useful reading not only for fellow anthropologists in the China field, but also for anyone interested in knowing about modern China. Summing Up: Highly recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Note on the Text 1 * The Value of Food in Rural China 2 * Labor 3 * Memory 4 * Exchange 5 * Morality 6 * Conviviality Conclusion: Stitching the World Together Appendix A Appendix B Notes Glossary References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Notaker’s impressive work of research calls for cookbooks to be read and valued the same as literature . . . . A History of Cookbooks also serves up a wonderful history of publishing, since that first printed Italian cookbook coincides with the advent of Gutenberg’s press" * Print Magazine *“This stirring work will enhance our engagement with the kitchens of our ancestors.” * Times Literary Supplement *"A complex and dense read, and the author is to be complimented on maintaining clarity throughout. For the food historian it is a useful reminder that cookbooks have scope beyond that of mere instruction, and for the literary historian it highlights the complexities that underlie apparently simple manuals. It is a book for serious students of both fields." * Petits Propos Culinaires *“It is the work of a polyglot, a researcher passionate about his subject, and an indefatigable reader. . . . Henry Notaker’s work is a reference book worth having in any good library.” * Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies *"Well-argued and researched work, taking a new and intriguing approach to a popular subject.” * CHOICE *"...a dense but well-argued and researched work, taking a new and intriguing approach to a popular subject." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIllustrations Preface Acknowledgments PART ONE. FOOD AND TEXT-COOK AND WRITER Prologue: A Rendezvous 1. The Cook 2. Writer and Author PART TWO. THE TEXT AND ITS FORM 3. The Origin and Early Development of Modern Cookbooks 4. Printed Cookbooks: Diffusion, Translation, and Plagiarism 5. Organizing the Cookbook 6. Naming the Recipes 7. Pedagogical and Didactic Approaches 8. Paratexts in Cookbooks 9. The Recipe Form 10. The Cookbook Genre PART THREE. THE TEXT AND ITS WORLD 11. Cookbooks for the Rich and the Poor 12. Health and Medicine in Cookbooks 13. Recipes for Fat Days and Lean Days 14. Vegetarian Cookbooks 15. Jewish Cookbooks 16. Cookbooks and Aspects of Nationalism 17. Decoration, Illusion, and Entertainment 18. Taste and Pleasure 19. Gender in Cookbooks and Household Books Epilogue: Cookbooks and the Future Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisCounter-Colacharts the history of one of the world's most influential and widely known corporations, The Coca-Cola Company. Over the past 130 years, the corporation has sought to make its products, brands, and business central to daily life in over 200 countries. Amanda Ciafone uses this example of global capitalism to reveal the pursuit of corporate power within the key economic transformationsliberal, developmentalist, neoliberalof the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Coca-Cola's success has not gone uncontested. People throughout the world have redeployed the corporation, its commodities, and brand images to challenge the injustices of daily life under capitalism. As Ciafone shows, assertions of national economic interests, critiques of cultural homogenization, fights for workers' rights, movements for environmental justice, and debates over public health have obliged the corporation to justify itself in terms of the common good, demonstrating capitalism's imperative to either assimilate critiques or reveal its limits. Trade Review"Drawing on company records, archival materials, and various publications, Ciafone investigates corporate endeavors with an anthropologically influenced understanding of people and practices who resisted Coca-Cola. . . . Highly recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 • The Coca-Cola Bottling System and the Logics of the Franchise 2 • Mediating Coca-Colonization: Negotiating National Development and Difference in Coca-Cola’s Postwar Internationalization 3 • “I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke”: The “Real Thing” and the Revolutions of the 1960s 4 • Indianize or Quit India: Nationalist Challenges to Coca-Cola in Postcolonial India 5 • A Man in Every Bottle: Labor and Neoliberal Violence in Colombian Coca-Cola Bottling 6 • Water for Life, Not for Coca-Cola: Commodification, Consumption, and Environmental Challenges in Neoliberal India 7 • CSR: Corporate Social Responsibility and Continued Social Resistance, A Nonconclusion Abbreviations Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCounter-Colacharts the history of one of the world's most influential and widely known corporations, The Coca-Cola Company. Over the past 130 years, the corporation has sought to make its products, brands, and business central to daily life in over 200 countries. Amanda Ciafone uses this example of global capitalism to reveal the pursuit of corporate power within the key economic transformationsliberal, developmentalist, neoliberalof the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Coca-Cola's success has not gone uncontested. People throughout the world have redeployed the corporation, its commodities, and brand images to challenge the injustices of daily life under capitalism. As Ciafone shows, assertions of national economic interests, critiques of cultural homogenization, fights for workers' rights, movements for environmental justice, and debates over public health have obliged the corporation to justify itself in terms of the common good, demonstrating capitalism's imperative to either assimilate critiques or reveal its limits. Trade Review"Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"Drawing on company records, archival materials, and various publications, Ciafone investigates corporate endeavors with an anthropologically influenced understanding of people and practices who resisted Coca-Cola. . . . Highly recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 • The Coca-Cola Bottling System and the Logics of the Franchise 2 • Mediating Coca-Colonization: Negotiating National Development and Difference in Coca-Cola’s Postwar Internationalization 3 • “I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke”: The “Real Thing” and the Revolutions of the 1960s 4 • Indianize or Quit India: Nationalist Challenges to Coca-Cola in Postcolonial India 5 • A Man in Every Bottle: Labor and Neoliberal Violence in Colombian Coca-Cola Bottling 6 • Water for Life, Not for Coca-Cola: Commodification, Consumption, and Environmental Challenges in Neoliberal India 7 • CSR: Corporate Social Responsibility and Continued Social Resistance, A Nonconclusion Abbreviations Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMuch of the produce that Americans eat is grown in the Mexican state of Baja California, the site of a multibillion-dollar export agricultural boom that has generated jobs and purportedly reduced poverty and labor migration to the United States. But how has this growth affected those living in Baja? Based on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, Made in Baja examines the unforeseen consequences for residents in the region of San Quintín. The ramifications include the tripling of the region's population, mushrooming precarious colonia communities lacking basic infrastructure and services, and turbulent struggles for labor, civic, and political rights. Anthropologist Christian Zlolniski reveals the outcomes of growers structuring the industry around an insatiable demand for fresh fruits and vegetables. He also investigates the ecological damagewatercideand the social side effects of exploiting natural resources for agricultural production. Weaving together stories from both farmworkers and growers, Made in Baja provides an eye-opening look at the dynamic economy developing south of the border.Trade Review"Zlolniski’s book is a detailed account that demonstrates very effectively how ethnography can be marshaled to rehumanize the global processes of production, consumption, and exchange that often seem to leave little room for any form of humanity, community, or social solidarity." * American Anthropologist *"This is an important and recommended book for anthropologists with a political economy orientation and interested in agriculture and capitalism beyond the topic of peasant studies." * Anthropology Book Forum *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Birth and Development of Export Agriculture in the San Quintín Valley 2. Transnational Agribusiness, Local Growers, and Discontents 3. Labor Recruitment: From Local to Transnational Labor Contractors 4. “They Want First-Class Workers with Third World Wages”: The Workplace Regime of Transnational Agriculture 5. Resisting the Carrilla in the Workplace: Forms of Labor Protests 6. Colonizing and Establishing Roots in Arid Lands 7. Watercide: Export Agriculture, Water Insecurity, and Social Unrest Conclusion Appendix: Policy Recommendations Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn recent years, Peru has transformed from a war-torn country to a global high-end culinary destination. Connecting chefs, state agencies, global capital, and Indigenous producers, this gastronomic revolution makes powerful claims: food unites Peruvians, dissolves racial antagonisms, and fuels development. Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race critically evaluates these claims and tracks the emergence of Peruvian gastropolitics, a biopolitical and aesthetic set of practices that reinscribe dominant racial and gendered orders. Through critical readings of high-end menus and ethnographic analysis of culinary festivals, guinea pig production, and national-branding campaigns, this work explores the intersections of race, species, and capital to reveal links between gastronomy and violence in Peru. Trade Review"The book presents a stunning and innovative analysis of the politics of Peru’s recent gastronomic boom. . . .[it] is at the forefront of scholarly discussions on the topic and deserves a wide readership among anthropologists and food studies scholars working on food, race, and nationalism in a range of geographic settings." * Gastronomica *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface: Understories Acknowledgments Introduction: Stories of Resurgence and Coloniality Part One: Structures of Accumulation Interlude: Hauntings 1 • Gastropolitics and the Nation Interlude: Eating the Nation 2 • Cooking Ecosystems: The Beautiful Coloniality of Virgilio Martínez Interlude: "Gastronomy Is a Display Case" 3 • Staging Difference: The Gastropolitics of Inclusion and Recognition Part Two: Narratives from the Edge Interlude: "Apega Needs Us to Look Pretty" 4 • Gastropolitics Otherwise: Stories in and of the Vernacular Interlude: Of Humor and Violence 5 • Guinea Pig Matters: Figuring Race, Sex, and Nation Interlude: Chemical Castration 6 • Death of a Guinea Pig Epilogue. Huacas Rising Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn recent years, Peru has transformed from a war-torn country to a global high-end culinary destination. Connecting chefs, state agencies, global capital, and Indigenous producers, this gastronomic revolution makes powerful claims: food unites Peruvians, dissolves racial antagonisms, and fuels development. Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race critically evaluates these claims and tracks the emergence of Peruvian gastropolitics, a biopolitical and aesthetic set of practices that reinscribe dominant racial and gendered orders. Through critical readings of high-end menus and ethnographic analysis of culinary festivals, guinea pig production, and national-branding campaigns, this work explores the intersections of race, species, and capital to reveal links between gastronomy and violence in Peru. Trade Review"The book presents a stunning and innovative analysis of the politics of Peru’s recent gastronomic boom. . . .[it] is at the forefront of scholarly discussions on the topic and deserves a wide readership among anthropologists and food studies scholars working on food, race, and nationalism in a range of geographic settings." * Gastronomica *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface: Understories Acknowledgments Introduction: Stories of Resurgence and Coloniality Part One: Structures of Accumulation Interlude: Hauntings 1 • Gastropolitics and the Nation Interlude: Eating the Nation 2 • Cooking Ecosystems: The Beautiful Coloniality of Virgilio Martínez Interlude: "Gastronomy Is a Display Case" 3 • Staging Difference: The Gastropolitics of Inclusion and Recognition Part Two: Narratives from the Edge Interlude: "Apega Needs Us to Look Pretty" 4 • Gastropolitics Otherwise: Stories in and of the Vernacular Interlude: Of Humor and Violence 5 • Guinea Pig Matters: Figuring Race, Sex, and Nation Interlude: Chemical Castration 6 • Death of a Guinea Pig Epilogue. Huacas Rising Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A stimulating account of Britain’s favourite drink." * Times Literary Supplement *"[Besky's] nuanced study of Indian tea . . . is a refreshing brew of botany, business and culture." * Nature *"Provides an unusual and rich understanding of the process of creating, reproducing, and evaluating the quality of tea." * American Anthropologist *"A wonderfully layered and immaculately researched exploration of the enduring tastes of empire." * Allegra Lab *"With a fine eye for detail and sparkling writing that makes the seemingly mundane fascinating . . . Tasting Qualities is a highly original, deeply researched, and theoretically sophisticated ethnography of Indian tea’s modernity, which adds to the scholarship on commodities and capitalism." * Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society *"Tasting Qualities will be a beneficial read to a broad range of scholars with interest in food, labor, and commodity studies, the intersection of food, nutrition, and health knowledge, science and technology." * Food, Culture & Society *"Engages deeply with the theoretical aspects of assessing the quality and value of commodities through the lens of tea." * CHOICE *"A fascinating view of the Indian tea industry. . . . Manages to easily deconstruct and demystify the space between the plantation and the cup of tea." * Tea Journey *"Tasting Qualities is a persuasive ethnography of quality and its many unseen constituents." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"Combining ethnographic and archival description, Sarah Besky’s Tasting Qualities: The Past and Future of Tea cleverly turns an analytic lens on the dependable and standardized aesthetics of modern capitalism." * American Ethnologist *"Besky offers anthropologists and other interdisciplinary scholars an ethnography to teach, think with, and push their studies of work, agriculture, finance, and commodities a bit further toward our collective understanding of quality." * Exertions *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Production of Quality 1 • The Work of Taste 2 • The Auction and the Archive 3 • The Problem with Blending 4 • The Science of Quality 5 • The Quality of Cheap Tea 6 • The Quality of Markets Conclusion: The Endurance of Quality Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A stimulating account of Britain’s favourite drink." * Times Literary Supplement *"[Besky's] nuanced study of Indian tea . . . is a refreshing brew of botany, business and culture." * Nature *"Provides an unusual and rich understanding of the process of creating, reproducing, and evaluating the quality of tea." * American Anthropologist *"A wonderfully layered and immaculately researched exploration of the enduring tastes of empire." * Allegra Lab *"Tasting Qualities will be a beneficial read to a broad range of scholars with interest in food, labor, and commodity studies, the intersection of food, nutrition, and health knowledge, science and technology." * Food, Culture & Society *"With a fine eye for detail and sparkling writing that makes the seemingly mundane fascinating . . . Tasting Qualities is a highly original, deeply researched, and theoretically sophisticated ethnography of Indian tea’s modernity, which adds to the scholarship on commodities and capitalism." * Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society *"Engages deeply with the theoretical aspects of assessing the quality and value of commodities through the lens of tea." * CHOICE *"A fascinating view of the Indian tea industry. . . . Manages to easily deconstruct and demystify the space between the plantation and the cup of tea." * Tea Journey *"Tasting Qualities is a persuasive ethnography of quality and its many unseen constituents." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"Tasting Qualities is a persuasive ethnography of quality and its many unseen constituents." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"With a fine eye for detail and sparkling writing that makes the seemingly mundane fascinating . . . Tasting Qualities is a highly original, deeply researched, and theoretically sophisticated ethnography of Indian tea’s modernity, which adds to the scholarship on commodities and capitalism." * Isis *"Combining ethnographic and archival description, Sarah Besky’s Tasting Qualities: The Past and Future of Tea cleverly turns an analytic lens on the dependable and standardized aesthetics of modern capitalism." * American Ethnologist *"Besky offers anthropologists and other interdisciplinary scholars an ethnography to teach, think with, and push their studies of work, agriculture, finance, and commodities a bit further toward our collective understanding of quality." * Exertions *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Production of Quality 1 • The Work of Taste 2 • The Auction and the Archive 3 • The Problem with Blending 4 • The Science of Quality 5 • The Quality of Cheap Tea 6 • The Quality of Markets Conclusion: The Endurance of Quality Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisStrawberries are big business in California. They are the sixth-highest-grossing crop in the state, which produces 88 percent of the nation's favorite berry. Yet the industry is often criticized for its backbreaking labor conditions and dependence on highly toxic soil fumigants used to control fungal pathogens and other soilborne pests. In Wilted,JulieGuthman tells the story of how the strawberry industry came to rely on soil fumigants, and how that reliance reverberated throughout the rest of the fruit's production system. The particular conditions of plants, soils, chemicals, climate, and laboring bodies that once made strawberry production so lucrative in the Golden State have now changed and become a set of related threats that jeopardize the future of the industry.Trade Review“This is a specialized but compelling topic, touching on something most consumers don’t think twice about: year-round availability of reasonably priced, high-quality, fresh strawberries in their local stores. Thorough and well researched—appropriate for agricultural and environmental science collections.” * CHOICE *"A thought-provoking examination of the entangled natures of specific geographic, historic, economic, social, and material conditions that have led to the Californian strawberry industry becoming as fragile as the berry it produces." * Anthropology Book Forum *"The historical context Guthman outlines is important because she highlights the particular pesticide treadmill created with the longevity and expansion of strawberry cultivation in California." * Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment: The Journal of Culture & Agriculture *"An engrossing book, rooted in storytelling, yet deeply analytical, challenging critical agrifood scholars and activists alike to rethink their ways of understanding agrarian change. . . . Challenges all scholars and policy makers to think more broadly and ultimately politically, if we are to shift the current bleak trajectory of strawberry production in California." * Gastronomica *“Wilted is sure to prove a fascinating read for anyone (academic or lay audience) concerned with food and agriculture, and it provides methodological and conceptual insights to human–environment geographers more broadly. Given its accessible style and its effective presentation of complex ideas, it would be particularly valuable in an undergraduate course. Indeed, as a synthesis of Guthman’s path-breaking work in geographies of food and agriculture, Wilted is sure to serve as a resource for scholars interested in pursuing environmental research agendas that are critically grounded, historically informed, and politically relevant.” * AAG Review of Books *"Remarkable. . . . As Guthman astutely argues, the ramifications of these findings permeate well beyond just strawberry fields and, in fact, demonstrate the fragility of industrial agricultural production in general." * Food, Culture & Society *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue: The Battle against Methyl Iodide 1 • California Strawberry Assemblages 2 • Emergent Pathogens 3 • Curiously Bred Plants and Proprietary Institutions 4 • Chemical Solutions and Regulatory Pushback 5 • Soiled Advantages and Highly Valued Land 6 • Scarce Labor and Disposable Bodies 7 • Precarious Repairs and Growing Pathologies 8 • Imperfect Alternatives and Tenuous Futures Conclusion: The Problem with the Solution Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisSince Iran's 1979 Revolution, the imperative to create and protect the inner purity of family and nation in the face of outside spiritual corruption has been a driving force in national politics. Through extensive fieldwork, Rose Wellman examines how Basiji families, as members of Iran's voluntary paramilitary organization, are encountering, enacting, and challenging this imperative. Her ethnography reveals how families and state elites are employing blood, food, and prayer in commemorations for martyrs in Islamic national rituals to create citizens who embody familial piety, purity, and closeness to God. Feeding Iran provides a rare and humanistic account of religion and family life in the post-revolutionary Islamic Republic that examines how home life and everyday piety are linked to state power.Trade Review"Wellman’s work is a powerful contribution in the best tradition of anthropology, from which sociologists of religion and Islam can learn a great deal." * Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review *"Beyond food studies, for those interested in contemporary kinship studies, or the anthropology of the Middle East, particularly Iran, [this book] sheds an important light on the inculcation of every day, embodied support for the illiberal state." * Anthropological Quarterly *"Feeding Iran offers an account of kinship and the intersection of kinship and politics. . . .readers are unlikely to mistake the emotional and perspectival empathy she applies in her fieldwork." * Religiologies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Translation and Transliteration Introduction: Kinship, Islam, and the State 1. Blood, Physio-Sacred Substance, and the Making of Moral Kin 2. Feeding the Family: The "Spirit" of Food in Iran 3. Regenerating the Islamic Republic: Commemorating Martyrs in Provincial Iran 4. Creating an Islamic Nation through Food Epilogue Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A paleoethnobotanical odyssey exploring the cornucopia of foods that traveled along the Silk Road." * Economic Botany *

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Book SynopsisFrom Chinatown to Every Town explores the recent history of Chinese immigration within the United States and the fundamental changes in spatial settlement that have relocated many low-skilled Chinese immigrants from New York City's Chinatown to new immigrant destinations. Using a mixed-method approach over a decade in Chinatown and six destination states, sociologist Zai Liang specifically examines how the expansion and growing popularity of Chinese restaurants has shifted settlement to more rural and faraway areas. Liang's study demonstrates that key players such as employment agencies, Chinatown buses, and restaurant supply shops facilitate the spatial dispersion of immigrants while simultaneously maintaining vital links between Chinatown in Manhattan and new immigrant destinations.Trade Review"The book’s key insight—that spatial assimilation is not just an individual level phenomenon, but rather is shaped by group-level dynamics and institutions—can be applied well beyond the Chinese restaurant industry." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Job Search: From Immigrant Networks to Market-Based Institutions 3. Making the Connection: The Story of the Chinatown Bus 4. Choices for New Immigrant Destinations 5. New Businesses in New Places: Adaptation and Race Relations 6. The Ties That Bind: Between Chinatown in Manhattan and New Immigrant Destinations 7. Conclusion Appendix A: Methods Appendix B: Analysis of Job Locations Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • The World’s Largest Orchard: Valley as Natural Wonder 2 • Prune Pickers and ’Cot Cutters: Valley as Fruit Factory 3 • From Farmland to Metropolis: Valley as Symbol of Progress 4 • Conclusion Research Notes Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Based on an impressive collection of archaeological data and textual sources in many languages, Muthukumaran provides an inspiring voyage in space and time. . . . this original and innovative book provides a significant contribution to the growing literature on East-West connectivity in antiquity." * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Historical Context 2. Wool from Trees: Cotton 3. The Golden Grain: Asiatic Rice 4. Persian “Apples”: Citruses 5. Familiar but Foreign: Eastern Cucurbits 6. The Egyptian Bean: The Sacred Lotus 7. A Forgotten Tuber: Taro 8. Timber for God and King: Sissoo 9. How to Turn Tropical References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Based on an impressive collection of archaeological data and textual sources in many languages, Muthukumaran provides an inspiring voyage in space and time. . . . this original and innovative book provides a significant contribution to the growing literature on East-West connectivity in antiquity." * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Historical Context 2. Wool from Trees: Cotton 3. The Golden Grain: Asiatic Rice 4. Persian “Apples”: Citruses 5. Familiar but Foreign: Eastern Cucurbits 6. The Egyptian Bean: The Sacred Lotus 7. A Forgotten Tuber: Taro 8. Timber for God and King: Sissoo 9. How to Turn Tropical References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Notaker’s impressive work of research calls for cookbooks to be read and valued the same as literature . . . . A History of Cookbooks also serves up a wonderful history of publishing, since that first printed Italian cookbook coincides with the advent of Gutenberg’s press" * Print Magazine *“This stirring work will enhance our engagement with the kitchens of our ancestors.” * Times Literary Supplement *"A complex and dense read, and the author is to be complimented on maintaining clarity throughout. For the food historian it is a useful reminder that cookbooks have scope beyond that of mere instruction, and for the literary historian it highlights the complexities that underlie apparently simple manuals. It is a book for serious students of both fields." * Petits Propos Culinaires *“It is the work of a polyglot, a researcher passionate about his subject, and an indefatigable reader. . . . Henry Notaker’s work is a reference book worth having in any good library.” * Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies *"Well-argued and researched work, taking a new and intriguing approach to a popular subject.” * CHOICE *"...a dense but well-argued and researched work, taking a new and intriguing approach to a popular subject." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIllustrations Preface Acknowledgments PART ONE. FOOD AND TEXT-COOK AND WRITER Prologue: A Rendezvous 1. The Cook 2. Writer and Author PART TWO. THE TEXT AND ITS FORM 3. The Origin and Early Development of Modern Cookbooks 4. Printed Cookbooks: Diffusion, Translation, and Plagiarism 5. Organizing the Cookbook 6. Naming the Recipes 7. Pedagogical and Didactic Approaches 8. Paratexts in Cookbooks 9. The Recipe Form 10. The Cookbook Genre PART THREE. THE TEXT AND ITS WORLD 11. Cookbooks for the Rich and the Poor 12. Health and Medicine in Cookbooks 13. Recipes for Fat Days and Lean Days 14. Vegetarian Cookbooks 15. Jewish Cookbooks 16. Cookbooks and Aspects of Nationalism 17. Decoration, Illusion, and Entertainment 18. Taste and Pleasure 19. Gender in Cookbooks and Household Books Epilogue: Cookbooks and the Future Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best History Books of 2016"

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An Essence Best New Winter Read""Winner of the C. Wright Mills Award, The Society for the Study of Social Problems""James Beard Foundation Book Award Nominee""What [Ewoodzie] finds runs counter to popular narrative, which often attributes meal choices among Southern Black Americans to traditions that center on the consumption of ‘soul food’. . . . Ewoodzie concludes that food is one of the tools used to construct, refine, and reconstruct racial boundaries. . . .His sobering storytelling . . . also offers vitally important insight for food rescue industry service providers and gatekeepers."---Cassie M. Chew, Civil Eats

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An Essence Best New Winter Read""Winner of the C. Wright Mills Award, The Society for the Study of Social Problems""James Beard Foundation Book Award Nominee""What [Ewoodzie] finds runs counter to popular narrative, which often attributes meal choices among Southern Black Americans to traditions that center on the consumption of ‘soul food’. . . . Ewoodzie concludes that food is one of the tools used to construct, refine, and reconstruct racial boundaries. . . .His sobering storytelling . . . also offers vitally important insight for food rescue industry service providers and gatekeepers."---Cassie M. Chew, Civil Eats

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Readers will enjoy this comprehensive book on organic food that explains how it has gone from being ridiculed to wildly popular—and grown into a multibillion-dollar industry.”Leslie A. Duram, author of Good Growing: Why Organic Farming Works “O’Sullivan dissects the power of government, agribusiness, chemical manufacturers, homesteaders, and foodies themselves to reveal how the organics movement has been swayed by market pressures and demands.” Margaret Gray, author of Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic “American Organic helps explain modern longings for things artisanal, local, simple and untainted.”Andrew Kirk, author of Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism.

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Book SynopsisAt the turn of the twentieth century, soybeans grew on so little of America's land that nobody bothered to track the total. By the year 2000, they covered upward of 70 million acres. How this little-known Chinese transplant turned into a ubiquitous component of American farming, culture, and cuisine is the story Matthew Roth tells in Magic Bean: The Rise of Soy in America.Trade ReviewMagic Bean is compelling, comprehensive, and timely. Matthew Roth has provided a well-examined study of soy's place within a long century of changing agriculture, food, diet, and culture. In the process, he offers an original and admirably wide-ranging account of soy for our time."" - Benjamin R. Cohen, author of Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil, & Society in the American Countryside""A diverse cast of women and men promoted the soybean as devotedly as John Chapman did the apple, but their efforts have gone as unnoticed as soy lecithin in a chocolate bar. Matthew Roth’s Magic Bean tells their stories and explains how a food often billed as a meat substitute became a linchpin of animal agriculture."" - Kendra Smith-Howard, author of Pure and Modern Milk: An Environmental History Since 1900

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Book SynopsisAn optimistic solution to the post-Brexit crisis in Britain's agricultural sectorTrade Review'A meticulously researched, thought provoking book, which politicians should act upon to provide a better future for our food and farm workers, especially the young, and rural economies in general' -- Len McCluskey, General Secretary, Unite the Union'A good red-green dose of food reality, which puts people, ecology and health at the heart of how to reform it' -- Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy, City University, London'This book is so important ... it challenges us all to take the opportunity Brexit presents to rethink our food systems, rethink our investment in food production and reconnect locally' -- Pam Warhurst, Co-Founder, Incredible Edible NetworkTable of ContentsList of Photographs, Figures and Tables Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: The State We're In 1. All Change 2. Coming Out 3. Moving On Part II: Society 4. Trade 5. Labour 6. Land Part III: Farm and Food Science 7. Sustainability 8. Obesity 9. Pesticides 10. Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) Part IV: The Future 11. Favourite Foods 12. What We Can Do Abbreviations Notes Index

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Book SynopsisLays out new strategies for advocacy groups to achieve a sustainable, healthy food system.Table of ContentsIntroduction / Rod MacRae, Elisabeth Abergel, and Mustafa KocPart 1 – Paradigms, Scales, and Jurisdictions1 Effecting Paradigm Change in the Canadian Agriculture and Food Sector: Toward a Multifunctionality Paradigm / Grace Skogstad2 Alternative Land Use Services and the Case for Multifunctional Policy in Canada / Alison Blay-Palmer3 The Experience of Canadian Environmental CSOs: Thoughts from the Green Side / Mark WinfieldPart 2 – Lessons from the Canadian Food System4 The Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee: Legitimacy, Participation, and Attempts to Improve GE Regulation in Canada / Elisabeth Abergel5 Lessons from Twenty Years of CSO Advocacy to Advance Sustainable Pest Management in Canada / Rod MacRae, Julia Langer, and Vijay Cuddeford6 Breastfeeding Promotion and Social Change in Canada: A Review of Ninety Years of Breastfeeding Policy and Practices / Aleck Ostry and Tasnim Nathoo7 Canada’s Action Plan on Food Security: The Interactions between Civil Society and the State to Advance Food Security in Canada / Mustafa Koc and Japji Anna Bas8 The Obesogenic Environment and Schools: Have CSOs Played a Role in Shifting the Debate from Individual Responsibility to Structural Factors? / Tony Winson, Rod MacRae, and Aleck Ostry9 From Green Energy to Smart Growth: Practical Lessons from the Renewable Energy Movement for Agricultural Land Protection and Sustainability Activists / José Etcheverry10 Helping Good Things Grow: Creating Nurturing Polices and Programs for New Farmers through Civil Society-Government Collaboration / Sarah RobicheauConclusion / Elisabeth Abergel and Rod MacRaeIndex

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Book SynopsisIn this book, one of the world's foremost experts on global food needs explains the many interrelated issues critical to our global food supply from the science of agricultural advances to the politics of food security.Trade ReviewIn 350 information-packed pages, Conway systematically builds an answer to the book's title question. His answer is 'a qualified yes'.. This is the first 21st Century manual on how to feed the world. There may not be time to wait for another edition, so I recommend reading it now. -- Jeff Waage * Food Security *The author is notably, and refreshingly, open to any approach that solves world hunger as long as it meets site-specific needs, particularly at the farm scale. He appreciates the multidisciplinary nature of addressing world hunger, painting his topics in broad strokes—not superficially, but appropriately scaled so that average readers can understand trends and concepts outside their own discipline or experience. From a classroom perspective the individual chapters provide a superb launch point for more in-depth discussion. Summing Up: Highly recommended. -- M.S. Coyne * Choice *The existence of one billion hungry people, despite sufficient production to meet contemporary consumption needs, is a stark (and shameful) reminder of the complexity of these issues, and of the inadequacy of current thinking. Conway's text lays out, in careful detail, the many dimensions that need to be considered in trying to answer these questions, and starts to provide a future vision for a food-secure world that is both equitable and environmentally sustainable. This is a masterful survey of the landscape, and is essential reading for anyone hoping to understand these issues, and to engage in informed discussion about alternative options for global food security. -- Bhaskar Vira * International Affairs *We all want to end hunger. Conway's book provides the roadmap for how to do it.. Conway provides clear (if lengthy) guidelines for what to do and how to do it. His is a voice of optimism, and he speaks convincinglty and authoritatively when addressing the promise of agricultural science in this endeavor. -- C. Peter Timmer * Journal of Economic Literature *

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Book SynopsisNow in its fifth edition, this book reviews and adapts microeconomic principles to the characteristics of agricultural commodity markets and then apply these principles to the various dimensions of price behavior.Trade ReviewThe book is aimed at an intermediate level course in agricultural prices and marketing. This is one of the best books in agricultural prices available at this level. * American Journal of Agricultural Economics *As a comprehensive reference on agricultural price behaviour at an intermediate level, the book is a worthwhile resource. It is well written and clearly considers and clarifies the principles required to understand the operation of open-agricultural product markets. I recommend this book to students and practitioners alike. -- Stuart Mounter * Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics *In its introduction, the book promises to provide an understanding of the complex arrays of forces that determine the level and behavior of prices and to assist students in bridging theories and empirical analysis on price behavior. It can undoubtedly be said that both promises have been realized in the book...The book's intuitive approach to explaining economic concepts makes it appealing for a wider audience in addition to graduate and undergraduate students. In light of the rise in the volatility of global food and agricultural products since 2007/2008, non-economists wishing to understand the basic mechanics of food price behavior could be interested in reading the book. -- Tsion Taye Assefa * European Review of Agricultural Economics *Table of Contents1. IntroductionPart I. Principles of Price Determination2. Demand for Agricultural Products3. Demand Elasticities and Related Coefficients4. Supply Relationships in Agriculture5. Price Determination: Theory and PracticePart II. Price Differences and Variability6. Marketing Margins7. Price Differences Associated with Quality8. Spatial Price Relationships9. Price Variation through Time10. General Farm–Non-farm Price RelationshipsPart III. Pricing Institutions11. Mechanisms for Discovering Prices12. Price Relationships on Commodity Futures Markets13. Functions of Commodity Futures Markets14. Background for Price Analysis15. Using and Evaluating Results16. Applications

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Book SynopsisHunger, malnutrition, poor health, and deficient food systems are widespread in Sub-Saharan Africa. While much is known about African food systems and about African health and nutrition, our understanding of the interaction between food systems and health and nutrition is deficient. Moreover, the potential health gains from changes in the food system are frequently overlooked in policy design and implementation. The authors of The African Food System and its Interactions with Human Health and Nutrition examine how public policy and research aimed at the food system and its interaction with human health and nutrition can improve the well-being of Africans and help achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Several of the MDGs focus on health-related challenges: hunger alleviation; maternal, infant, and child mortality; the control of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria; and the provision of safe water and improved sanitation. These challenges are intensifi

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Book SynopsisIn this book, one of the world's foremost experts on global food needs explains the many interrelated issues critical to our global food supply from the science of agricultural advances to the politics of food security.Trade ReviewIn 350 information-packed pages, Conway systematically builds an answer to the book's title question. His answer is 'a qualified yes'.. This is the first 21st Century manual on how to feed the world. There may not be time to wait for another edition, so I recommend reading it now. -- Jeff Waage * Food Security *The author is notably, and refreshingly, open to any approach that solves world hunger as long as it meets site-specific needs, particularly at the farm scale. He appreciates the multidisciplinary nature of addressing world hunger, painting his topics in broad strokes—not superficially, but appropriately scaled so that average readers can understand trends and concepts outside their own discipline or experience. From a classroom perspective the individual chapters provide a superb launch point for more in-depth discussion. Summing Up: Highly recommended. -- M.S. Coyne * Choice *The existence of one billion hungry people, despite sufficient production to meet contemporary consumption needs, is a stark (and shameful) reminder of the complexity of these issues, and of the inadequacy of current thinking. Conway's text lays out, in careful detail, the many dimensions that need to be considered in trying to answer these questions, and starts to provide a future vision for a food-secure world that is both equitable and environmentally sustainable. This is a masterful survey of the landscape, and is essential reading for anyone hoping to understand these issues, and to engage in informed discussion about alternative options for global food security. -- Bhaskar Vira * International Affairs *We all want to end hunger. Conway's book provides the roadmap for how to do it.. Conway provides clear (if lengthy) guidelines for what to do and how to do it. His is a voice of optimism, and he speaks convincinglty and authoritatively when addressing the promise of agricultural science in this endeavor. -- C. Peter Timmer * Journal of Economic Literature *

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Book SynopsisToday more than three quarters of a billion people go hungry in a world where food is plentiful. A distinguished scientist here sets out an agenda for addressing this situation. Initially published in 1997 in the United Kingdom, the book is now...Trade ReviewA valuable source book that outlines a comprehensive view of world food production as seen through the needs of the world's hungry.... A book that begins with a disconcerting prediction leaves us instead with a realistic vision of a future where no one goes hungry. * Boston Book Review *The author provides a clear and concise guide to a key part of what is possibly the most critical question facing humanity. * New Scientist *

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Book SynopsisFor two and a half years, Katherine J. Black crisscrossed Kentucky, interviewing home vegetable gardeners from a rich variety of backgrounds. Row by Row: Talking with Kentucky Gardeners is the result, a powerful compilation of testimonies on the connections between land, people, culture, and home.TheTrade Review“This is a loving and necessary book about our future: a possible world of connections with the earth, with the spirit, with the food we eat, and among human beings. Black’s sensitive interviews, her narrators’ creative lives, and the eloquent photographs are one powerful message of hope.”“Kate Black’s tender portraits of Kentucky gardeners read like good visits with future friends. Although these compelling Kentuckians’ backgrounds and ancestries vary widely, they have in common their striking commitment to growing their own food. Why do they garden? Their answers make each story rich and satisfying.”“Diversity throughout the book highlights our collective connection to food, land and the human experience.… Each tale is just intimate enough for the reader to feel a connection to the gardener, but brief enough to anticipate the next.… Row by Row evolves into a gardening manual, without giving a single instruction. Within the stories are secrets and inspirations that readers can apply to their own gardens, even if they’re digging for the first time.” * LEO Weekly *“Black’s commitment to listening to the oral histories cuts through the romanticism of much garden writing and the polarizing language that can afflict our food conversations in the United States.”

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