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"Magat explores both the traditional and popular culture contexts of eating balut. Balut--fertilized duck or chicken eggs that have developed into fully formed embryos with feathers and beaks--is a delicacy which elicits passionate responses. Hailed as an aphrodisiac in Filipino culture, balut is often seen and used as an object of revulsion in Western popular culture"--Publisher marketing.

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This book examines how beer reflects the structure of society's collective values, economic structures, and structural inequity. The authors explore the organization of our social world through looking at beer as a marker of identity, an object of connoisseurship, and a livelihood for those who produce and distribute it.

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This book examines how beer reflects the structure of society's collective values, economic structures, and structural inequity. The authors explore the organization of our social world through looking at beer as a marker of identity, an object of connoisseurship, and a livelihood for those who produce and distribute it.

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The contributors of this collection explore various aspects and questions surrounding craft beer culture from perspectives of business, gender, community-building, branding, and culture.

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Alternative Food Networks is a robust ethnography providing theoretical insight and anecdotal evidence of how alternative economies can become embedded in active citizenship practices, cooperative relationships, and social networks.

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Alternative Food Networks is a robust ethnography providing theoretical insight and anecdotal evidence of how alternative economies can become embedded in active citizenship practices, cooperative relationships, and social networks.

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Food is not only something we eat, it is something we use to define ourselves. This title considers the ways in which popular culture reveals our relationship with food and our own bodies and how these have become an arena for political and ideological battles.

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Food is not only something we eat, it is something we use to define ourselves. This title considers the ways in which popular culture reveals our relationship with food and our own bodies and how these have become an arena for political and ideological battles.

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Brazil is a nation of vast expanses and variation of geography, climate and language. Brazilian Food explores the role of food in the construction of identity through key case studies, demonstrating how cuisine is a key element in attracting tourists and making aspects of culture known beyond Brazil's borders.

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Brazil is a nation of vast expanses and variation of geography, climate and language. Brazilian Food explores the role of food in the construction of identity through key case studies, demonstrating how cuisine is a key element in attracting tourists and making aspects of culture known beyond Brazil's borders.

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Most people cant get through the day without a hit of caffeine. Chances are youre one of them. But do you really know what that daily coffee or coke is doing to you

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The National Organic Program regulates the current U.S. organic food and agriculture market, but states started adopting organic regulations in the 1970s. This book examines the diffusion of state organic food and agriculture legislation from 19762010 and identifies the consequences for state involvement in this policy domain.

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"Critical Approaches to Superfoods examines the politics and culture of superfoods. It demonstrates how studying superfoods can reveal shifting concepts of nutritional authority, the complexities of intellectual property and bioprospecting, the role marketing agencies play in the agro-industrial complex, and more."--Back cover

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An anthropological study of food. It focuses on taste and flavour using an original interpretation of Alfred Gell's theory of the 'art nexus'. Grounded in ethnography, it explores the notion of cooking as an embodied skill and artistic practice. It examines the integral role and concept of 'flavour' in everyday life.

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An anthropological study of food. It focuses on taste and flavour using an interpretation of Alfred Gell's theory of the 'art nexus'. It explores the notion of cooking as an embodied skill and artistic practice. Including recipes to allow readers to practise the art of Mexican cooking, it offers a model for understanding food anthropologically.