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"Sprouts, tofu, granola, brown rice, whole-grain bread: suspect foods fifty years ago, omnipresent today: Journey back a half century in time-to the 1960s and 1970s-with food writer Jonathan Kauffman who tells the story of how a coterie of unusual men and women embraced an alternative lifestyle that would change how modern Americans eat. Impeccably researched, Hippie Food chronicles how the longhairs, revolutionaries, and back-to-the-landers rejected...
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"In this impressive anthology, Natalie Baszile brings together essays, poems, photographs, quotes, conversations, and first-person stories to examine black people's connection to the American land from Emancipation to today. In the 1920s, there were over one million black farmers; today there are just 45,000. Baszile explores this crisis, through the farmers' personal experiences. In their own words, middle aged and elderly black farmers explain why...
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Through most of its history, America has been a rural nation, largely made up of farmers. David B. Danbom's Born in the Country was the first-and is still the only-general history of rural America. Ranging from pre-Columbian times to the enormous changes of the twentieth century, the book masterfully integrates agricultural, technological, and economic themes with new questions about the American experience. Danbom employs the stories of particular...
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"Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award, Agricultural History Society" "Honorable Mention for the Vincent P. DeSantis Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era" "Co-Winner of the Silver Medal in Business Commentary, Axiom Business Book Awards" "One Smithsonian's Ten Best Books About Food of 2019" Joshua Specht is assistant professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. Twitter @joshspecht
How beef conquered...
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The acclaimed food critic's two-thousand-year history of going out to eat, from the ancient Romans in Pompeii to the luxurious Michelin-starred restaurants of today.
Starting with the surprisingly sophisticated dining scene in the city of Pompeii, William Sitwell embarks on a romp through culinary history, meeting the characters and discovering the events that shape the way we eat today. The Daily Telegraph restaurant critic and famously acerbic MasterChef...
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The ultimate book on the incredible, and complex history of opium throughout the world.
Flowers in the Blood lifts the veil of mystery that has surrounded opium down through the ages. Inside, discover:
• Why a three-thousand-year-old statue of a Greek goddess was crowned with poppies
• The formulas for Hippocrates's ancient opium remedies
• Why the Islamic councils of the wise vilified hashish but venerated opium
• What really provoked...
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In his new, must-read history of food, acclaimed historian Massimo Montanari traces the development of medieval tastes -- both culinary and cultural -- from raw materials to market and their reflections in today's food trends. He immerses readers in the passionate debates and bold inventions that transformed food from a simple staple to a potent factor in health and symbol of social and ideological standing, tying the ingredients of its fascinating...
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How Toronto's own city farms were crowded out. First settled in the early nineteenth century, the area now known as Don Mills retained its rural character until the end of the Second World War. After the war, population growth resulted in pressure to develop the area around Toronto and, in a relatively short time, the landscape of Don Mills was irreparably altered. Today, the farms are all gone, as are almost all of the barns and farmhouses. Fields...
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A market farmer and naturalist writes on the history, cultivation, and culture of corn, as well as his own personal experience with the remarkable crop.
Cultivated from sea level to mountaintop, from parched deserts to sodden rain forests, from the rocky Gaspé Peninsula to the plains of Argentina, corn is the grain of the Americas. In terms of culinary uses, it is amazingly diverse, reflecting the breathtaking variety of the continents and environments...
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"Edifying from every point of view--historical, cultural, and culinary." -David Tanis, author of A Platter of Figs and Other Recipes
It's a culinary catalyst, an agent of change, a gastronomic rock star. Ubiquitous in the world's most fabulous cuisines, butter is boss. Here, it finally gets its due.
After traveling across three continents to stalk the modern story of butter, award-winning food writer and former pastry chef Elaine Khosrova serves...
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The illuminating history of milk, from ancient myth to modern grocery store.
How did an animal product that spoils easily, carries disease, and causes digestive trouble for many of its consumers become a near-universal symbol of modern nutrition? In the first cultural history of milk, historian Deborah Valenze traces the rituals and beliefs that have governed milk production and consumption since its use in the earliest societies.
Covering the long...
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"One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best History Books of 2016" Gergely Baics is assistant professor of history and urban studies at Barnard College, Columbia University.
New York City witnessed unparalleled growth in the first half of the nineteenth century, its population rising from thirty thousand people to nearly a million in a matter of decades. Feeding Gotham looks at how America's first metropolis grappled with the challenge of provisioning...
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During the Great Depression, with thousands on bread lines, farmers were instructed by the New Deal Agricultural Adjustment Act to produce less food in order to stabilize food prices and restore the market economy. Fruit was left to rot on trees, crops were plowed under, and millions of piglets and sows were slaughtered and discarded. Many Americans saw the government action as a senseless waste of food that left the hungry to starve, initiating public...
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What was it like, living in a tiny hillside village in your great-grandparents' day? Perhaps your ancestors lived here, above busy Keighley town? This fascinating guidebook, in four parts, recreates the flavour of life in a hamlet overlooking Worth Valley in West Yorkshire. Part One includes the families Barker, Bolton, Brogden, Clapham, Feather, Jowett. Laycock, Lister, Midgley, Pickard, Steel, Whitfield and a dozen more.
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A written and photographic history of cotton's role in American society, from the author of Memphis Blues.
In the barbeque joints and plate lunch cafes off Memphis's Front Street, one is easily reminded of the days when cotton was king. It was a society of characters and cads; the big time and the small time; the rich and the richer; the hangers-on, anointed, powerful, and busted. Cotton created empires in agriculture, transportation, banking, and...
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North Carolina's tobacco heritage comes to life in this volume of stories and remembrances from traditional tobacco farmers and cultivators.
When early settlers struggled to grow anything at all in North Carolina's sandy soil, tobacco was a boon that became a way of life. The lives of many North Carolinians continue to revolve around the growth cycle of the tobacco plant, from laying-by to cropping and curing. In this collection of nostalgic memories,...
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A vibrant history of Florida's horticultural heritage and the colorful personalities who made the state synonymous with citrus.
In the 16th-century, Ponce de León planted the first orange groves in St. Augustine, Florida. They were the precursor to what would become an integral part of Florida's identity. Orange groves slowly spread across the state, inspiring agricultural innovations and manufacturing ingenuity. Now Florida food writer Erin Thursby...
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Whether in wartime or peace, tales of love, laughter and hardship from the girls in the Rowntrees factory in Yorkshire "On a warm Monday morning in 1932, just two days after leaving school, fourteen-year-old Madge was about to join her nine brothers and sisters at Rowntree's. The smell of chocolate was in the air but as she walked up the road, her footsteps slowed at the daunting thought of what lay ahead..." From the 1930s through to the 1980s, as...
19) Dorothy's Story
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This is Dorothy's story, one of five stories extracted from The Sweethearts. Whether in wartime or peace, tales of love, laughter and hardship from the girls in the Rowntree's factory in Yorkshire.
"'Every Friday when we got paid, they used to come round with your pay packet and a tin for charity and you'd put a penny in, and they'd go round all the machines for people to put money in. That was a very Rowntree's thing to do.' Dorothy gave all her...
20) Madge's Story
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This is Madge's story, one of five stories extracted from THE SWEETHEARTS.
Whether in wartime or peace, tales of love, laughter and hardship from the girls in the Rowntrees factory in Yorkshire.
'On the morning of her Rowntrees job interview, on a warm Monday morning in July 1932, Fourteen-year-old Madge Fisher stood fidgeting in the hallway of her terraced house while her mother, Margaret, pinned up her hair and then inspected her from top to toe....
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