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Food has a special significance in the expanding field of global history. This work provides an historical overview of the relationship between food and globalization in the modern world. It offers a fresh perspective on both global history and food studies.

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This collection of original essays explores food and identity in the Caribbean, as contemporary political and economic changes impact upon culinary identities. Through rich ethnographies, the volume reveals how connections between food and identity persist and evolve against the odds.

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This collection of original essays explores food and identity in the Caribbean, as contemporary political and economic changes impact upon culinary identities. Through rich ethnographies, the volume reveals how connections between food and identity persist and evolve against the odds.

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This fascinating study focuses on the material culture of food, demonstrating how food offers a means of shaping the self not simply through consumption but in everyday forms of production, through fine dining, shopping and blogging to TV and cookbooks.

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This fascinating study focuses on the material culture of food, demonstrating how food offers a means of shaping the self not simply through consumption but in everyday forms of production, through fine dining, shopping and blogging to TV and cookbooks.

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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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Belgian waffles, chocolate, and beer are renowned, but Food Culture in Belgium opens up the entire food culture spectrum and reveals Belgian food habits today and yesterday.

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This entry in the Food Culture around the World series helps those in the United States understand the new immigrants from Central America who have brought their food cultures with them.

Food Culture in Central America illustrates the unique foodways of the region in depthand in Englishfor the first time.

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Offers an overview of Germany's revived and invigorated food culture. This book provides an understanding of Germans and their food - the history, ingredients, cooking, special occasions, lifestyle eating habits, and diet and health.

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The food cultures of Scandinavian countries are similar in important ways but also have many different traditions because of variations in geography and climate and unique social, cultural and political history.

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Many dishes, cooking methods, and food habits have survived with little modification since time immemorial.

Students and other readers will learn much about the South American foodways in daily life today, with special attention paid to historical perspective and any rural and urban differences.

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The final chapter on diet and health looks at some of the ideologies underlying the relation between food and disease, particularly the humoral system, and then considers the nutritional challenges related to recent changes in local food systems, including food safety.

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This volume offers an overview of Spanish food and eating habits, taking into account a long and complex history, plus distinctive social, cultural, linguistic, geographic, political, and economic characteristics.

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This volume illuminates West, southern, and Central African cuisine as well to give students and other readers a solid understanding of how the diverse African peoples grow, cook, and eat food and how they celebrate special occasions and ceremonies with special foods.

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No American history or food collection is complete without this lively insight into the radical changes in daily life from the Gilded Age to World War II, as reflected in foodways.

From the Gilded Age to the end of World War II, what, where, when, and how Americans ate all changed radically.

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A whole new kind of movie tie-in--the first in a series--goes behind the scenes and deeper into the issues and ideas raised by a provocative documentary on the contemporary way of eating