ilość książek w kategorii: 2064
The Slaw and the Slow Cooked: Culture and Barbecue in the Mid-South
ISBN: 9780826518019 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Texas has its barbecue tradition, and a library of books to go with it. Same with the Carolinas. The mid-South, however, is a region with as many opinions as styles of cooking. In The Slaw and the Slow Cooked, editors James Veteto and Edward Maclin seek to right a wrong--namely, a deeper understanding of the larger experience of barbecue in this legendary American culinary territory.
Texas has its barbecue tradition, and a library of books to go with it. Same with the Carolinas. The mid-South, however, is a region with as many opin...
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607,23 zł |
They Eat That? A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weird and Exotic Food from around the World
ISBN: 9780313380587 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The title "They Eat That?: A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weird and Exotic Food from around the World" says it all. This fun encyclopedia, organized A-Z, describes and offers cultural context for foodstuffs people eat today that might be described as "weird"--at least to the American palate. Entries also include American regional standards, such as scrapple and chitterlings, that other regions might find distasteful, as well as a few mainstream American foods, like honey, that are equally odd when one considers their derivation. A long narrative entry on insects, for example, discusses the... The title "They Eat That?: A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weird and Exotic Food from around the World" says it all. This fun encyclopedia, organized A-... |
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655,63 zł |
Ending Hunger Worldwide
ISBN: 9781594518935 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why does hunger persist in a world of plenty? Ending Hunger Worldwide challenges the naive notion that everyone wants hunger to end, arguing that the powerful care - but not enough to make a difference. George Kent argues that the central focus in overcoming hunger should be on building stronger communities. It is these communities which can provide mutual support to ensure that people don't go hungry. Kent demonstrates that there is not a shortage of food but of what Amartya Sen terms 'opportunities', and that developing tight-knit communities will lead to more opportunities for the hungry...
Why does hunger persist in a world of plenty? Ending Hunger Worldwide challenges the naive notion that everyone wants hunger to end, arguing that the ...
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187,44 zł |
Food Policy for Developing Countries: The Role of Government in Global, National, and Local Food Systems
ISBN: 9780801448188 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite technological advances in agriculture, nearly a billion people around the world still suffer from hunger and poor nutrition while a billion are overweight or obese. This imbalance highlights the need not only to focus on food production but also to implement successful food policies. In this new textbook intended to be used with the three volumes of Case Studies in Food Policy for Developing Countries (also from Cornell), the 2001 World Food Prize laureate Per Pinstrup-Andersen and his colleague Derrill D. Watson II analyze international food policies and discuss how... Despite technological advances in agriculture, nearly a billion people around the world still suffer from hunger and poor nutrition while a billion... |
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238,16 zł |
A Mess of Greens: Southern Gender and Southern Food
ISBN: 9780820334714 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Combining the study of food culture with gender studies and using per-spectives from historical, literary, environmental, and American studies, Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt examines what southern women's choices about food tell us about race, class, gender, and social power.Shaken by the legacies of Reconstruction and the turmoil of the Jim Crow era, different races and classes came together in the kitchen, often as servants and mistresses but also as people with shared tastes and traditions. Generally focused on elite whites or poor blacks, southern foodways are often portrayed as stable and...
Combining the study of food culture with gender studies and using per-spectives from historical, literary, environmental, and American studies, Elizab...
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733,49 zł |
A Mess of Greens: Southern Gender and Southern Food
ISBN: 9780820340371 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Combining the study of food culture with gender studies and using per-spectives from historical, literary, environmental, and American studies, Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt examines what southern women's choices about food tell us about race, class, gender, and social power.Shaken by the legacies of Reconstruction and the turmoil of the Jim Crow era, different races and classes came together in the kitchen, often as servants and mistresses but also as people with shared tastes and traditions. Generally focused on elite whites or poor blacks, southern foodways are often portrayed as stable and...
Combining the study of food culture with gender studies and using per-spectives from historical, literary, environmental, and American studies, Elizab...
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151,24 zł |
Omnivorous Mind: Our Evolving Relationship with Food
ISBN: 9780674055728 / Angielski / Twarda / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this gustatory tour of human history, John S. Allen demonstrates that the everyday activity of eating offers deep insights into human beings biological and cultural heritage. We humans eat a wide array of plants and animals, but unlike other omnivores we eat with our minds as much as our stomachs. This thoughtful relationship with food is part of what makes us a unique species, and makes culinary cultures diverse. Not even our closest primate relatives think about food in the way "Homo sapiens" does. We are superomnivores whose palates reflect the natural history of our species. ... In this gustatory tour of human history, John S. Allen demonstrates that the everyday activity of eating offers deep insights into human beings bio... |
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191,76 zł |
Food Media
ISBN: 9780857850539 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Food Media charts the growth of this popular entertainment category and the emergence of celebrity chefs, such as Jamie Oliver and Rachael Ray, and popular trends, such as foodies, food porn, and food fetishism. Food Media describes how the intersections between celebrity culture and food media have come to influence how many people think about feeding themselves and their families-- and how often that task is complicated when it need not be. The book examines how, under the threat of the obesity epidemic, some food stars have taken on new authority as social activists, while... Food Media charts the growth of this popular entertainment category and the emergence of celebrity chefs, such as Jamie Oliver and Rachael Ray, and... |
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177,30 zł |
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2011 : How Does International Price Volatility Affect Domestic Economies and Food Security?
ISBN: 9789251069271 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2011 highlights the differential impacts that the world food crisis of 2006-08 had on different countries, with the poorest being most affected. This year's report focuses on the costs of food price volatility, as well as the dangers and opportunities presented by high food prices. Climate change and an increased frequency of weather shocks, increased linkages between energy and agricultural markets due to growing demand for biofuels, and increased financialization of food and agricultural commodities all suggest that price volatility is here...
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2011 highlights the differential impacts that the world food crisis of 2006-08 had on different count...
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127,75 zł |
Conversations with the Land
ISBN: 9780983950301 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,71 zł |
A Guide to Buying Farm Fresh: Eating Well and Safely in Upstate New York
ISBN: 9780984343027 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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85,68 zł |
Change Comes to Dinner
ISBN: 9780312577377 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A fascinating exploration of America's food innovators, that gives us hopeful alternatives to the industrial food system described in works like Michael Pollan's bestselling Omnivore's Dilemma Gustafson introduces food visionaries like Mark Lilly, who turned a school bus into a locally-sourced grocery store in Richmond, Virginia; Gayla Brockman, who organized a... A fascinating exploration of America's food innovators, that gives us hopeful alternatives to the industrial food system described in works like... |
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77,26 zł |
Hunger in the Balance
ISBN: 9780801450396 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Food aid has become a contentious issue in recent decades, with sharp disagreements over genetically modified crops, agricultural subsidies, and ways of guaranteeing food security in the face of successive global food crises. In Hunger in the Balance, Jennifer Clapp provides a timely and comprehensive account of the contemporary politics of food aid, explaining the origins and outcomes of recent clashes between donor nations and between donors and recipients. She identifies fundamental disputes between donors over "tied" food aid, which requires that food be sourced in the... Food aid has become a contentious issue in recent decades, with sharp disagreements over genetically modified crops, agricultural subsidies, and wa... |
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192,56 zł |
Food and Social Media: You Are What You Tweet
ISBN: 9780759120426 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social media platforms have quickly become integral to most people's lives, both privately and professionally. This is the first book to illuminate the trend of relying on social media in the food world. Engaging in social media is fun, but it is also rapidly becoming the platform for self-promotion and branding. This entertaining narrative offers an historical account of the major changes brought about by the Internet and also explores the polarities that underlie the challenges of adaptation, including exclusivity versus democracy, professionalism versus amateurism, and business versus...
Social media platforms have quickly become integral to most people's lives, both privately and professionally. This is the first book to illuminate th...
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384,05 zł |
Food and Social Media: You Are What You Tweet
ISBN: 9780759120433 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social media platforms have quickly become integral to most people's lives, both privately and professionally. This is the first book to illuminate the trend of relying on social media in the food world. Engaging in social media is fun, but it is also rapidly becoming the platform for self-promotion and branding. This entertaining narrative offers an historical account of the major changes brought about by the Internet and also explores the polarities that underlie the challenges of adaptation, including exclusivity versus democracy, professionalism versus amateurism, and business versus...
Social media platforms have quickly become integral to most people's lives, both privately and professionally. This is the first book to illuminate th...
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202,69 zł |
Competition and Efficiency in International Food Supply Chains : Improving Food Security
ISBN: 9780415520713 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why have food crises been more frequent in recent years, compared to the last few decades? This book examines an array of different distortions that are causing food supply chain dysfunction in many countries, particularly for staple non-perishable foods such as grains and pulses.
Why have food crises been more frequent in recent years, compared to the last few decades? This book examines an array of different distortions that a...
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658,75 zł |
The Impact of Agricultural Trade Liberalization on National Food Security in Nigeria, 1970-2000
ISBN: 9781599423401 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study attempts to examine the impact of a trade decontrol policy on food output within the Nigerian macroeconomic context. In other words, the study relates trade liberalization to the national food security situation between 1970 and 2000, by employing descriptive statistics and error correction model (ECM) as the research methodologies.
Regional and multilateral trade agreements seem to reduce barriers to the flow of commodities across borders, thus fostering a more efficient allocation of scarce resources as well as raising gross output with positive implications for food security at... This study attempts to examine the impact of a trade decontrol policy on food output within the Nigerian macroeconomic context. In other words, the st...
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113,95 zł |
Writing Food History: A Global Perspective
ISBN: 9781847888082 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The vibrant interest in food studies among both academics and amateurs has made food history an exciting field of investigation. Taking stock after three decades of groundbreaking multidisciplinary research, the book examines two broad questions: What has history contributed to the development of food studies? How have other disciplines - sociology, anthropology, literary criticism, science, art history - influenced writing on food history in terms of approach, methodology, controversies, and knowledge of past foodways? Essays by twelve prominent scholars provide a compendium of... The vibrant interest in food studies among both academics and amateurs has made food history an exciting field of investigation. Taking stock after... |
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197,58 zł |
In the Fields of the North/En Los Campos del Norte
ISBN: 9780520296077 / Angielski / Miękka / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this landmark work of photo-journalism, activist and photographer David Bacon documents the experiences of some of the hardest-working and most disenfranchised laborers in the country: the farmworkers who are responsible for making California "America's breadbasket." Combining haunting photographs with the voices of migrant farmworkers, Bacon offers three-dimensional portraits of laborers living under tarps, in trailer camps, and between countries, following jobs that last only for the harvesting season. He uncovers the inherent abuse in the labor contractor work system, and drives home...
In this landmark work of photo-journalism, activist and photographer David Bacon documents the experiences of some of the hardest-working and most dis...
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157,59 zł |
The Pump Keeps on Running : On the emergence of water management institutions between state decentralization and local practices in northern Kunene
ISBN: 9783643908384 / Angielski / Miękka / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on his long-term anthropological fieldwork in the semiarid north of the Kunene region in Namibia, the author describes and analyzes how the local Otjiherero-speaking pastoralists govern water usage after a decentralization reform of the rural water sector in the country. This book will be of interest to academics, policymakers, and practitioners who seek to better understand how water management institutions emerge, particularly at the intersection of state decentralization reforms and local practices in the Kunene Region, but also elsewhere in the world. Dissertation. (Series: Cologne...
Based on his long-term anthropological fieldwork in the semiarid north of the Kunene region in Namibia, the author describes and analyzes how the loca...
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173,36 zł |