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Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet
Eating with the World in Mind
Mahatma Gandhi redefined nutrition as a holistic approach to building a more just world. What he chose to eat was intimately tied to his beliefs. His key values of nonviolence, religious tolerance,...
ISBN: 9780295744957
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The Deepest Roots
Finding Food and Community on a Pacific Northwest Island
As friends began “going back to the land” at the same time that a health issue emerged, Kathleen Alcalá set out to reexamine her relationship with food at the most local level. Remembering her...
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The Other Milk
Reinventing Soy in Republican China
In the early twentieth century, China was stigmatized as the “Land of Famine.” Meanwhile in Europe and the United States, scientists and industrialists seized upon the soybean as a miracle plant...
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Organic Sovereignties
Struggles over Farming in an Age of Free Trade
This first sustained ethnographic study of organic agriculture outside the United States traces its meanings, practices, and politics in two nations typically considered worlds apart: Latvia and...
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A Year Right Here
Adventures with Food and Family in the Great Nearby
Armed with “The Here List” and a Type-A personality, Seattle-based writer and cookbook author Jess Thomson sets out to spend a year exploring the food of the Pacific Northwest with her family....
ISBN: 9780295741543
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Swallowing Clouds
A Playful Journey through Chinese Culture, Language, and Cuisine
Physics professor Zee writes about how to understand the menus in Chinese restaurants, explaining the characters, what they mean, and the colorful stories behind the names of various dishes. Anne...
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Puer Tea
Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic
Puer tea has been grown for centuries in the “Six Great Tea Mountains” of Yunnan Province, and in imperial China it was a prized commodity, traded to Tibet by horse or mule caravan via the so-called...
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Faith, Food, and Family in a Yupik Whaling Community
For more than fifteen hundred years Yupik and proto-Yupik Eskimo peoples have lived at the site of the Alaskan village of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island. Their history is a record of family and kin,...
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The Earth's Blanket
Traditional Teachings for Sustainable Living
This is a thought-provoking look at Native American stories, cultural institutions, and ways of knowing, and what they can teach us about living sustainably.
ISBN: 9780295987392
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Coffee and Coffeehouses
The Origins of a Social Beverage in the Medieval Near East
Drawing on the accounts of early European travelers, original Arabic sources on jurisprudence and etiquette, and treatises on coffee from the period, the author recounts the colorful early history...
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Greening Cities, Growing Communities
Although there are thousands of community gardens across North America, only Seattle and a few other cities include them in their urban development plans. While the conditions and experiences in...
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To Fish in Common
The Ethnohistory of Lummi Indian Salmon Fishing
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Sins of the Flesh
A History of Ethical Vegetarian Thought
Unlike previous books on the history of vegetarianism, Sins of the Flesh examines the history of vegetarianism in its ethical dimensions, from the origins of humanity through to the present.Full...
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Making a Living
Place, Food, and Economy in an Inuit Community
Although food is vital to our daily lives, we tend to be unaware of the particulars of where it came from and how it was produced. We simply go to the market and buy what we need in neatly packaged...
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When Wheat Was King
The Rise and Fall of the Canada-UK Grain Trade
Over a century, the Canadian prairies went from being the breadbasket of the world to a grain-growing region in a vast, global agri-food system. Magnan traces the causes and consequences of this...
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Community Nutrition for Developing Countries
Written by both scholars and practitioners based in developing countries, this volume draws on their wealth of knowledge, experience, and understanding of nutrition to provide nutrition professionals...
ISBN: 9781927356111
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How Canadians Communicate V
Sports
Despite a decline in active participation, Canadians spend enormous amounts of time and money on sports, as fans and followers of sporting events and sports culture. Never has media coverage of sports...
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How Canadians Communicate VI
Food Promotion, Consumption, and Controversy
Food nourishes the body, but our relationship with food extends far beyond our need for survival. We use food choices not only to express our personal tastes but also, and perhaps more importantly,...
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With Our Own Hands
A Celebration of Food and Life in the Pamir Mountains of Afghanistan and Tadjikistan
Winner of the 2016 Best Cookbook of the Year award at the Gourmand World Cookbook AwardsThis book tells the story of the Afghan and Tajik Pamir Mountains, the old traditions and rapid changes...
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Acquired Tastes
Why Families Eat the Way They Do
Magazine articles and self-improvement books tell us that our food choices serve as bold statements about who we are as individuals. Acquired Tastes reveals that they say more about where...
ISBN: 9780774828581
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