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Hatched
Dispatches from the Backyard Chicken Movement
"Chickens are a lot more mainstream than veganism and a little bit like kombucha: super weird twenty years ago, now somewhat popular and made even more so by logos, brands, and hashtags." So begins Gina...
ISBN: 9780295752198
more detailsHeaven on the Half Shell
The Story of the Oyster in the Pacific Northwest
Heaven on the Half Shell offers a thoroughly researched and richly illustrated history of the Pacific Northwest’s beloved bivalve, the oyster. Starting with the earliest evidence of sea gardens and clam beds from 11,500 years...
ISBN: 9780295750781
more detailsHeritage Drinks of Myanmar
Heritage Drinks of Myanmar takes the reader on an anthropological journey through emerald mountains and rust-red valleys to showcase some of the myriad alcoholic drinks made in this unique and fascinating country. In Myanmar, freshly...
ISBN: 9786162151804
more detailsCommunist Pigs
An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall
The pig played a key role in the German Democratic Republic's attempts to create a modern, industrial food system built on communist principles. By the mid-1980s, East Germany produced more pork per capita than West...
ISBN: 9780295750699
more detailsA Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other
Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast
In the dense rainforest of the west coast of Vancouver Island, the Somass River (c̓uumaʕas) brings sockeye salmon (miʕaat) into the Nuu-chah-nulth community of Tseshaht. C̓uumaʕas and miʕaat are central to the sacred food practices...
ISBN: 9780295749525
more detailsThe $16 Taco
Contested Geographies of Food, Ethnicity, and Gentrification
Having "discovered" the flavors of barbacoa, bibimbap, bánh mi, sambusas, and pupusas, white middle-class eaters are increasingly venturing into historically segregated neighborhoods in search of "authentic" eateries run by—and for—immigrants and people of color. Fueled...
ISBN: 9780295749280
more detailsSacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian
The Everyday Politics of Eating Meat in India
Bovine politics exposes fault lines within contemporary Indian society, where eating beef is simultaneously a violation of sacred taboos, an expression of marginalized identities, and a route to cosmopolitan sophistication. The recent rise of Hindu...
ISBN: 9780295747880
more detailsGandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet
Eating with the World in Mind
Mahatma Gandhi redefined nutrition as fundamental to building a more just world. What he chose to eat was intimately tied to his beliefs, and his key values of nonviolence, religious tolerance, and rural sustainability developed...
ISBN: 9780295744964
more detailsTasting Paradise on Earth
Jiangnan Foodways
Preparing and consuming food is an integral part of identity formation, which in contemporary China embodies tension between fast-forward modernization and cultural nostalgia. Jin Feng’s wide-ranging exploration of cities in the Lower Yangzi Delta—or Jiangnan,...
ISBN: 9780295745992
more detailsThe 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 that could help build...
ISBN: 9780295744032
more detailsOrganic 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 Costa Rica. Situated on the frontiers of the...
ISBN: 9780295743110
more detailsA 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. Planning to revel...
ISBN: 9780295741543
more detailsWith 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 Awards This book tells the story of the Afghan and Tajik Pamir Mountains, the old traditions and rapid changes in...
ISBN: 9789460222276
more detailsSwallowing 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 Tyler (in the Washington Post)...
ISBN: 9780295994208
more detailsPuer 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...
ISBN: 9780295993232
more detailsGreening 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 Seattle may be unique, the...
ISBN: 9780295989280
more detailsThe 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
more detailsFaith, 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,...
ISBN: 9780295981888
more detailsTo Fish in Common
The Ethnohistory of Lummi Indian Salmon Fishing
ISBN: 9780295978482
more detailsCoffee 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 of the spread of coffee and...
ISBN: 9780295962313
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