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By: Jennifer Packard
ISBN: 9781442267312
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Publication Date: Dec 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Food carries symbolic importance used to define individuals, situations, and places, making it an ideal communication tool. In musical theater, food can be used as a shortcut to reveal more about a setting, character, or situation. This book looks at the role of food in popular theater musicals illustrating how food relates to the broader world.
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By: Tim Miller
ISBN: 9781442253452
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Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Tim Miller takes us on a fascinating tour of home cooking and eating in America where its been and where its going as well as a vivid accounting of our stubborn unwillingness to give it up all together in the face of easy, processed, and prepared meals.
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By: Claire Stewart
ISBN: 9781442257139
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Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Who doesnt love a good wedding And the food! This book reveals the story behind everything from bridal showers to bachelor parties, from engagements to honeymoons; the author provides a tour through the food customs that bring wedding celebrations to life.
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By: Katherine A. McIver
ISBN: 9781442227187
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Publication Date: Dec 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Renaissance Italys art, literature, and culture continue to fascinate. The domestic life has been examined more in recent years, and this book reveals the preparation, eating, and the sociability of dining in Renaissance Italy.
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By: Jean Duruz
ISBN: 9781442227408
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Publication Date: Dec 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book analyzes cultures of eating together in Malaysia and Singapore. It explores everyday spaces, such as street stalls, hawker centers, and coffee shops. Reflecting on these as sites for people's different culinary exchanges, the book captures resonances of national, ethnic, cosmopolitan and multicultural identity.
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By: Kima Cargill
ISBN: 9781442251311
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Publication Date: Dec 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Understanding how food fads and diets can develop a fervent following that rise to the level of a cult is a new area of study and often overlooked. Here, Kima Cargill and other experts shed fresh light on the subject, revealing how and why such cults may develop among certain communities.
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By: Robert Dirks
ISBN: 9781442245136
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Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Gilded Age is renowned for the excesses of the robber barons and tycoons. The lavishness of their tables impressed contemporaries and historians alike. But what about the eating habits of ordinary Americans at the time Robert Dirks answers that question by peering through the lens of what then was a newly emerging science of nutrition.
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By: Sarah Portnoy Sarah Portnoy
ISBN: 9781442251298
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Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 14th November 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Food, Health, and Culture in Latino Los Angeles explores the history of Latino cuisine in Los Angeles and the contemporary Latino food scene, one that sharply contrasts with urban Latino neighborhoods where access to affordable, healthy food is a struggle. The study offers solutions such as expanding urban agriculture and legalizing street vendors.
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By: Amber M. O'Connor
ISBN: 9781442255258
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Publication Date: Dec 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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KOben traces the Maya kitchen and its associated hardware, ingredients, and cooking styles from the earliest times for which there is archaeological evidence through todays culinary tourism in the area.
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By: Cynthia Clampitt
ISBN: 9781538110744
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Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Pigs, Pork, and Heartland Hogs is an engaging celebration of the 12,000-year connection between humans and the worlds most commonly consumed meat: pork. Throughout history, pigs shaped cultures and cuisines. Introduced into the Americas, they changed lives and, in time, helped define the Midwest, reflecting the regions diversity and abundance.
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By: Suzanne Cope
ISBN: 9781442227347
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Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Small Batch details the history and changing social implication of artisanal foods, from the days of early American settlers to the present explosion of small-batch and artisanal food businesses. Interviewing over fifty artisanal producers, Cope details the influences, challenges, and evolving identity of these modern craft industries.
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By: Kimberly Wilmot Voss
ISBN: 9781442227200
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Publication Date: Apr 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Before blogs and tweeting and websites, food mavens looked to magazines and newspapers for information on food and recipes. This book traces the history of the newspaper food section and celebrates the women who were pioneer journalists, reporting and writing on the food issues and concerns of the day.
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By: Casey Man Kong Lum
ISBN: 9781442266421
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Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Urban Foodways and Communication is a collection of ethnographic case studies that examine urban foodways around the world as forms of human communication and intangible cultural heritage.
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By: Erica J. Peters
ISBN: 9780759120754
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Publication Date: Nov 2011
Publisher: AltaMira Press
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Appetites and Aspirations in Vietnam explores how people in Vietnam used food and drink to strengthen their social position during the "long" nineteenth century, from the 1790s to the 1920s.
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By: Joel S. Denker
ISBN: 9780810895706
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Publication Date: Dec 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Tracing the story of a variety of foods we love from obscurity to familiarity, this lively and informative work will reveal to readers the hidden history behind many of the things we eat.
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By: Joel S. Denker
ISBN: 9781442248854
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Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Tracing the story of a variety of foods we love from obscurity to familiarity, this lively and informative work will reveal to readers the hidden history behind many of the things we eat.
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