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Author : Jeffrey M. Pilcher
Release : 2012-11-08
Genre : Cooking
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Food History by : Jeffrey M. Pilcher
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Food History written by Jeffrey M. Pilcher. This book was released on 2012-11-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final chapter in this section explores the uses of food in the classroom.
Author : Jeffrey M. Pilcher
Release : 2012
Genre : Electronic books
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 268/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Food History by : Jeffrey M. Pilcher
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Food History written by Jeffrey M. Pilcher. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook places existing works of food history in historiographical context, crossing disciplinary, chronological and geographic boundaries, while also suggesting new routes for future research. The 27 essays in this book are organised into 5 basic sections: historiography and disciplinary approaches as well as the production, circulation, and consumption of food.
Author : Ronald J. Herring
Release : 2015
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 770/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Food, Politics, and Society by : Ronald J. Herring
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Food, Politics, and Society written by Ronald J. Herring. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the complex interrelationships between food and agriculture, politics, and society. More specifically, it considers the political aspects of three basic economic questions : what is to be produced? how is it to be produced? how it is to be distributed? It also outlines three unifying themes running through the politics of answering these societalquestions with regard to food, namely : ecology, technology and property
Author : Jeffrey M. Pilcher
Release : 2012-10-16
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Food History by : Jeffrey M. Pilcher
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Food History written by Jeffrey M. Pilcher. This book was released on 2012-10-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food matters, not only as a subject of study in its own right, but also as a medium for conveying critical messages about capitalism, the environment, and social inequality to diverse audiences. Recent scholarship on the subject draws from both a pathbreaking body of secondary literature and an inexhaustible wealth of primary sources--from ancient Chinese philosophical tracts to McDonald's menus--contributing new perspectives to the historical study of food, culture, and society, and challenging the limits of history itself. The Oxford Handbook of Food History places existing works in historiographical context, crossing disciplinary, chronological, and geographic boundaries while also suggesting new routes for future research. The twenty-seven essays in this book are organized into five sections: historiography, disciplinary approaches, production, circulation, and consumption of food. The first two sections examine the foundations of food history, not only in relation to key developments in the discipline of history itself--such as the French Annales school and the cultural turn--but also in anthropology, sociology, geography, pedagogy, and the emerging Critical Nutrition Studies. The following three sections sketch various trajectories of food as it travels from farm to table, factory to eatery, nature to society. Each section balances material, cultural, and intellectual concerns, whether juxtaposing questions of agriculture and the environment with the notion of cookbooks as historical documents; early human migrations with modern culinary tourism; or religious customs with social activism. In its vast, interdisciplinary scope, this handbook brings students and scholars an authoritative guide to a field with fresh insights into one of the most fundamental human concerns.
Author : Charles W. Bamforth
Release : 2014
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Food Fermentations by : Charles W. Bamforth
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Food Fermentations written by Charles W. Bamforth. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fermentation, as a chemical and biological process, is everywhere. Countless societies throughout history have used it to form a vast array of foods and drinks, many of which were integral and essential to those cultures; it could be argued that the production of beer and bread formed the basis of many agriculture-based civilizations. Today, nearly every person on the planet consumes fermented products, from beer and wine, to bread and dairy products, to certain types of meat and fish. Fermentation is a nearly ubiquitous process in today's food science, and an aspect of chemistry truly worth understanding more fully. In The Oxford Handbook of Food Fermentations, Charles W. Bamforth and Robert E. Ward have collected and edited contributions from many of the world's experts on food fermentation, each focused on a different fermentation product. The volume contains authoritative accounts on fermented beverages, distilled beverages, and a diverse set of foods, as well as chapters on relevant biotechnology. Each chapter embraces the nature of the product, its production, and its final composition. The text also touches on the raw materials and processes involved in producing packaged foodstuff, and the likely future trends in each area. In the conclusion, Bamforth and Ward present a comparison between the various products and the diverse technologies employed to produce them. Fermentation is a multifaceted process that affects a wide variety of products we consume, and The Oxford Handbook of Food Fermentations is the definitive resource that captures the science behind fermentation, as well as its diverse applications.
