by Richard A. Walker From the publisher: For over a century, California has been the world’s most advanced agricultural zone, an agrarian juggernaut that not only outproduces every state in […]
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Six Thousand Years of Bread: Its Holy and Unholy History
by H. E. Jacob From the publisher: Give us this day our daily bread. From ancient Egypt to modern times, bread is the essential food, the symbol of fundamental well-being. H.E. […]
Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
by Thor Hanson From the publisher: We live in a world of seeds. From our morning toast to the cotton in our clothes, they are quite literally the stuff and […]
White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
by Aaron Bobrow-Strain From the publisher: How did white bread, once an icon of American progress, become “white trash“? In this lively history of bakers, dietary crusaders, and social reformers, Aaron […]
Noodle Narratives: The Global Rise of an Industrial Food into the Twenty-First Century
by Frederick Errington, Tatsuro Fujikura, and Deborah Gewertz From the publisher: Tasty, convenient, and cheap, instant noodles are one of the most remarkable industrial foods ever. Consumed around the world by millions, […]
Bread: A Global History
by William Rubel From the publisher: What food is more basic, more essential and more universal than bread? Common to the diets of both rich and poor, bread is one of […]
Black Rice: a history of rice and enslaved Africans
by Judith A. Carney From the publisher: Few Americans identify slavery with the cultivation of rice, yet rice was a major plantation crop during the first three centuries of settlement in the […]