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California studies in food and culture

xiii, 358 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Meals to come : a history of the future of food / Warren Belasco.

xvii, 234 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

The nature of poverty : a case-history of the first quarter-century after World War II / Margaret Haswell.

Food and the city in Europe since 1800 / edited by Peter J. Atkins, Peter Lummel, Derek J. Oddy.

A history of food / Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat ; translated by Anthea Bell.

La bella historia del hambre dominicana / Pedro Mir.

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

The food crisis in prehistory : overpopulation and the origins of agriculture / Mark Nathan Cohen.

Occasional paper / Department of Nutrition, Queen Elizabeth College, University of London

90 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Fish in Britain : trends in its supply, distribution and consumption during the past two centuries / edited by T.C. Barker and John Yudkin.

v, 97 leaves : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

"On the kitchen front" : food rationing policy and nutritonal information in Britain during the second world war / Sophia Tincey.

Cuba y México : desastres, alimentación y salud, siglos XVIII-XIX  : estudios de caso / Luz María Espinosa Cortés, Enrique Beldarraín Chaple, coordinadores.

<p>"For the first time in human history, there is food in abundance throughout the world. More people than ever before are now freed of the struggle for daily survival, yet few of us are aware of how food lands on our plates. Behind every meal you eat, there is a story. Hamburgers in Paradise explains how. In this wise and passionate book, Louise Fresco takes readers on an enticing cultural journey to show how science has enabled us to overcome past scarcities--and why we have every reason to be optimistic about the future. Using hamburgers in the Garden of Eden as a metaphor for the confusion surrounding food today, she looks at everything from the dominance of supermarkets and the decrease of biodiversity to organic foods and BMOs. She casts doubt on many popular claims about sustainability, and takes issue with naive rejections of globalization and the idealization of 'true and honest' food. Fresco explores topics such as agriculture in human history, poverty and development, and surplus and obesity. She provides insightful discussions of basic foods such as bread, fish, and meat, and intertwines them with social topics like slow food and other gastronomy movements, the fear of technology and risk, food and climate change, the agricultural landscape, urban food systems, and food in art. The culmination of decades of research, Hamburgers in Paradise provides valuable insights into how our food is produced, how it is consumed, and how we can use the lessons of the past to design food systems to feed all humankind in the future."--Inside jacket flaps.</p>

xviii, 542 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm

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Meals to come : a history of the future of food / Warren Belasco.

The nature of poverty : a case-history of the first quarter-century after World War II / Margaret Haswell.

Food and the city in Europe since 1800 / edited by Peter J. Atkins, Peter Lummel, Derek J. Oddy.

A history of food / Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat ; translated by Anthea Bell.

La bella historia del hambre dominicana / Pedro Mir.

The food crisis in prehistory : overpopulation and the origins of agriculture / Mark Nathan Cohen.

Fish in Britain : trends in its supply, distribution and consumption during the past two centuries / edited by T.C. Barker and John Yudkin.

"On the kitchen front" : food rationing policy and nutritonal information in Britain during the second world war / Sophia Tincey.

Cuba y México : desastres, alimentación y salud, siglos XVIII-XIX : estudios de caso / Luz María Espinosa Cortés, Enrique Beldarraín Chaple, coordinadores.

Hamburgers in paradise : the stories behind the food we eat / Louise O. Fresco ; translated by Liz Waters.

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Meals to come : a history of the future of food / Warren Belasco.

The nature of poverty : a case-history of the first quarter-century after World War II / Margaret Haswell.

Food and the city in Europe since 1800 / edited by Peter J. Atkins, Peter Lummel, Derek J. Oddy.

A history of food / Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat ; translated by Anthea Bell.

La bella historia del hambre dominicana / Pedro Mir.

The food crisis in prehistory : overpopulation and the origins of agriculture / Mark Nathan Cohen.

Fish in Britain : trends in its supply, distribution and consumption during the past two centuries / edited by T.C. Barker and John Yudkin.

"On the kitchen front" : food rationing policy and nutritonal information in Britain during the second world war / Sophia Tincey.

Cuba y México : desastres, alimentación y salud, siglos XVIII-XIX : estudios de caso / Luz María Espinosa Cortés, Enrique Beldarraín Chaple, coordinadores.

Hamburgers in paradise : the stories behind the food we eat / Louise O. Fresco ; translated by Liz Waters.

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