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A look at the deeper meaning behind our food choices: from the prioritization of convenience over health to the ways food at work affects our happiness; from the American obsession with "having it our way" at Starbucks, Chipotle and other chains that individualize the eating experience to the fascinating dynamic between highbrow food culture--artisan this and small-batch that--and the lowbrow, such as Taco Bell's sale of 100 million Doritos Locos...
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Nicolette Hahn Niman dispels popular myths about how eating beef is bad for our bodies and planet. Grounded in empirical scientific data and with living examples from around the world, Hahn Niman builds a comprehensive argument that cattle can help build carbon-sequestering soils to mitigate climate change, enhance biodiversity, prevent desertification, and provide invaluable nutrition. While no single book can definitively answer the thorny question...
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"From the author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard and her husband, a culinary historian, an in-depth exploration of the greatest food crisis the nation has ever faced--the Great Depression--and how it transformed America's culinary culture. The decade-long Great Depression, a period of shifts in the country's political and social landscape, forever changed the way America eats. Before 1929, America's relationship with food was defined by abundance. But...
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DHEW publication volume no. (PHS) 79-1658
Vital and health statistics. Series 11 Data from the national health survey volume no. 210
DHEW publication volume no. (PHS) 78-1658
Vital and health statistics. Series 11 Data from the national health survey volume no. 210
DHEW publication volume no. (PHS) 78-1658
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1979
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Vital and health statistics. Series 11 Data from the national health survey volume no. 231
DHHS publication volume no. (PHS) 83-1681
DHHS publication volume no. (PHS) 83-1681
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Rowman & Littlefield
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[2016]
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"The Gilded Age is renowned for a variety of reasons, including its culture of conspicuous consumption among the newly rich. In the domain of food, conspicuous consumption manifested itself in appetites for expensive dishes and lavish dinner parties. These received ample publicity at the time, resulting later on in well-developed historical depictions of upper-class eating habits. This book delves into the eating habits of people of lesser means....
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Island Press/Shearwater Books
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c2008
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Ask children where food comes from, and they will probably answer: "the supermarket." Ask most adults, and their replies may not be much different. Where our foods are raised and what happens to them between farm and supermarket shelf have become mysteries. How did we become so disconnected from the sources of our breads, beef, cheeses, cereal, apples, and countless other foods that nourish us every day? The answer is a sensory-rich journey through...
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Did you know that the first graham crackers were designed to reduce sexual desire? Or that Americans have tried fad diets for almost two hundred years? Why do we say things like "buck" for a dollar and "living high on the hog"? How have economics, technology, and social movements changed our tastes? Uncover these and other fascinating aspects of American food traditions in The American Plate. Dr. Libby H. O'Connell takes readers on a mouth-watering...
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Bulletin volume no. 674
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Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, College of Food and Natural Resources, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Pub. Date
1982
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Vital and health statistics. Series 11 Data from the national health survey volume no. 202
DHEW publication volume no. (HRA) 77-1647
DHEW publication volume no. (HRA) 77-1647
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for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off
Pub. Date
1977
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