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Food Trucks Delights on Wheels

Martinez Patricia

ISBN: HB: 9788416500444, GMC Group, Monsa, March 2017
144 pp., 22x15 cm, colour illus.

Not for sale in Ukraine and Russia! Food Trucks are something of an institution in American culture, and have been around for more than a century. These days there is a huge range of gastronomic treats available, dished up out of an incredible vari...

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Cultural Studies

Food Lovers' Anthology A Literary Compendium

ISBN: HB: 9781851244218, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

"There is no love sincerer than the love of food" wrote George Bernard Shaw in 1903. Poets, novelists, chefs and gourmands before and after him would seem to agree. Collected in this anthology is a mouth-watering selection of excerpts on the subject...

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Fear of Food A History of Why We Worry about What We Eat

Levenstein Harvey

ISBN: PB: 9780226054902, ISBN: HB: 9780226473741, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 halftones, 2 line illus.

There may be no greater source of anxiety for Americans today than the question of what to eat and drink. Are eggs the perfect protein, or are they cholesterol bombs? Is red wine good for my heart or bad for my liver? Will pesticides, additives, and...

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Feeding the Gods Memories of Food and Culture in Bengal

Banerji Chitrita

ISBN: HB: 9781905422104, Seagull Books, June 2006
128 pp., 20x14.4 cm, 28 halftones

As the pungent fragrance of spices transports the author back into memories of childhood, we too are plunged headlong into the rich tastes, textures and colours of food in her native Bengal. Here, food is a ritualised and intrinsic part of the cultur...

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Fashionable Food Seven Decades of Food Fads

Lovegren Sylvia

ISBN: PB: 9780226494074, University of Chicago Press, June 2005
464 pp., 22.8x18 cm, 35 halftones, 7 line illus.

Though the Roaring Twenties call to mind images of flappers dancing the Charleston and gangsters dispensing moonshine in back rooms, Sylvia Lovegren here playfully reminds us what these characters ate for dinner: Banana and Popcorn Salad. Like fashio...

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