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Chiang Mai 2015
40 mins; April 03, 2026
Allan Greer, "Canada in the Age of Rum" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2026)
44 mins; March 31, 2026
Patricia B. O'Hara, "Food Chemistry in Small Bites: The Alchemist in the Kitchen" (U California Press, 2025)
34 mins; March 30, 2026
Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese Food
45 mins; March 30, 2026
Karima Moyer-Nocchi, "The Epic History of Macaroni and Cheese: From Ancient Rome to Modern America" (Columbia UP, 2026)
74 hours 24 mins; March 20, 2026
Eurie Dahn, "Snack" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
43 mins; March 16, 2026
Rebecca Sharpless, "People of the Wheat: Culture and Cultivation in North Texas" (U Texas Press, 2026)
70 hours 11 mins; March 07, 2026
Rosella Cappella Zielinski and Paul Poast, "Wheat at War: Allied Economic Cooperation in the Great War" (Oxford UP, 2025)
54 mins; March 03, 2026
Boiling Point
24 mins; March 02, 2026
Anne Mendelson, "Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood" (Columbia UP, 2023)
65 hours 55 mins; February 22, 2026
Josh Milburn, "Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully" (Oxford UP, 2023)
76 hours 0 mins; February 21, 2026
Good and Bad Palm Oil: Food Security, Paradigm Shift and Stakeholder Negotiations in Indonesia and the EU
31 mins; February 20, 2026
Hanna Garth, "Food Justice Undone: Lessons for Building a Better Movement" (U California Press, 2026)
46 mins; February 14, 2026
Digestive Belonging, Trans-Species Sensing & Care in America’s Dairyland
58 mins; February 13, 2026
Bridget Salmon and Andrew Godley, "The Making of the Modern Supermarket: Self-Service Adoption in British Food Retailing, 1950-1975" (Oxford UP, 2025)
61 hours 11 mins; February 12, 2026
Gaoheng Zhang, "Italian Dumplings and Chinese Pizzas: Transcultural Food Mobilities" (Fordham UP, 2025)
42 mins; January 31, 2026
Hanna Garth, "Food Justice Undone: Lessons for Building a Better Movement" (U California Press, 2026)
30 mins; January 23, 2026
Ishita Dey, "Sweet Excess: Crafting Mishti in Bengal" (Routledge, 2025)
81 hours 14 mins; January 21, 2026
Patrick McGuigan and Carlos Yescas, "One Cheese to Rule Them All: In Search of the World's 100 Best Cheeses" (Murdoch Books, 2025)
60 hours 11 mins; January 20, 2026
Ignacio M. SĂĄnchez Prado, "Taco" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
36 mins; January 19, 2026
Ines Prodöhl, "Globalizing the Soybean: Fat, Feed, and Sometimes Food, c. 1900–1950" (Routledge, 2023)
51 mins; January 18, 2026
Q. Edward Wang, "Staple to Superfood: A Global History of the Sweet Potato" (Columbia UP, 2025)
53 mins; January 14, 2026
Anna Zeide, "US History in 15 Foods" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
38 mins; December 31, 2025
Sara Byala, "Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African" (Oxford UP, 2023)
67 hours 39 mins; December 30, 2025
Kathryn Cornell Dolan, "Breakfast Cereal: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
67 hours 58 mins; December 29, 2025
Thomas David DuBois, "China in Seven Banquets: A Flavourful History" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
73 hours 58 mins; December 28, 2025
Andrea Maraschi and Francesca Tasca, "Food, Heresies, and Magical Boundaries in the Middle Ages (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
51 mins; December 24, 2025
Veronica House, "Local Organic: Food Rhetorics and Community Writing for Impact" (Utah State UP, 2025)
53 mins; December 20, 2025
Susan Weingarten, "Ancient Jewish Food in its Geographical and Cultural Contexts: What’s Cooking in the Talmuds?" (ï»żTaylor & Francis, 2025
37 mins; December 13, 2025
Rituparna Patgiri and Gurpinder Singh Lalli eds., "Food, Culture and Society in India: Social, Political, Economic and Cultural Perspectives" (Berghahn Books, 2025)
35 mins; December 13, 2025
Anny Gaul, "Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato" (U California Press, 2025)
57 mins; December 04, 2025
Bradley J. Borougerdi, "Cannabis: A Global History" (Reaktion, 2025)
50 mins; December 04, 2025
Meg Bernhard, "Wine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
58 mins; November 28, 2025
Jenny Linford, "Repast: The Story of Food" (Thames & Hudson, 2025)
49 mins; November 26, 2025
Pyet DeSpain, "Rooted in Fire: A Celebration of Native American and Mexican Cooking" (HarperOne, 2025)
50 mins; November 20, 2025
Dorie Greenspan, "Dorie's Anytime Cakes" (Harvest, 2025)
54 mins; November 18, 2025
Jennifer Yip, "Grains of Conflict: The Struggle for Food in China’s Total War, 1937-1945" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
55 mins; November 15, 2025
Graeme Rigby, "Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of the Herring" (Hurst Publishers, 2025)
55 mins; November 03, 2025
Gesine Bullock-Prado, "My Harvest Kitchen: 100+ Recipes to Savor the Seasons" (Countryman Press, 2025)
46 mins; October 31, 2025
The Trip
23 mins; October 27, 2025
Tami Parr, "Goats in America: A Cultural History" (Oregon State UP, 2025)
49 mins; October 23, 2025
Teresa M. Mares and Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, "Will Work for Food: Labor Across the Food Chain" (U California Press, 2025)
33 mins; October 22, 2025
Michael W. Twitty, "Recipes from the American South" (Phaidon Press, 2025)
41 mins; October 21, 2025
Andrea Freeman, "Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: America’s Politics of Food, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch" (Metropolitan Books, 2024)
60 hours 44 mins; October 17, 2025
The Light Between Apple Trees: Rediscovering the Wild Through a Beloved American Fruit
50 mins; October 16, 2025
David Singerman, "Unrefined: How Capitalism Reinvented Sugar" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
68 hours 28 mins; October 11, 2025
Maria Fedorova, "Seeds of Exchange: Soviets, Americans, and Cooperation in Agriculture, 1921–1935" (Northern Illinois UP, 2025)
49 mins; October 09, 2025
Susannah Fisher, "Sink Or Swim: How the World Needs to Adapt to a Changing Climate" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
34 mins; October 07, 2025
Eric T. Jennings, "Vanilla: The History of an Extraordinary Bean" (Yale UP, 2025)
51 mins; October 02, 2025
Devin Smart, "Preparing the Modern Meal: Urban Capitalism and Working-Class Food in Kenya's Port City" (Ohio UP, 2025)
82 hours 24 mins; September 21, 2025
Stephen A. Harris, "50 Plants That Changed the World" (Bodleian Library, 2025)
45 mins; September 17, 2025
Jessica B. Harris, "Braided Heritage: Recipes and Stories on the Origin of American Cuisine" (Clarkson Potter, 2025)
37 mins; September 16, 2025
Cup Overflowing: How Christians Should Think about Wine
44 mins; September 08, 2025
Brian Duff, "ï»żRestaurant" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
43 mins; September 06, 2025
Tom Wooldridge, "Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction" (Routledge, 2022)
50 mins; September 05, 2025
Anders M. Greene-Crow, "Austerity Measures: The Poetics of Food Insecurity in Early Modern English Literature" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
64 hours 33 mins; August 27, 2025
Every Purchase Matters: How Fair Trade Farmers, Companies, and Consumers are Changing the World
57 mins; August 12, 2025
Preserving Traditional Rice and Rice Culture in the Philippines
24 mins; August 05, 2025
Yuki Kato, "Gardens of Hope: Cultivating Food and the Future in a Post-Disaster City" (NYU Press, 2025)
67 hours 12 mins; July 31, 2025
Kelly A. Spring, "SPAM: A Global History" (Reaktion, 2025)
32 mins; July 16, 2025
John Nott, "Between Feast Famine: Food, Health, and the History of Ghana's Long Twentieth Century" (UCL Press, 2025)
103 hours 18 mins; July 14, 2025
Michael Grunwald, "We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
46 mins; June 28, 2025
Michelle Phillipov, "Digital Food TV: The Cultural Place of Food in a Digital Era (Routledge, 2023)
61 hours 23 mins; June 24, 2025
Matthew Allen, "Drink and Democracy: Alcohol and the Political Imaginary in Colonial Australia" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)
55 mins; June 23, 2025
Kathryn L. Beasley, "The Proof Is in the Dough: Rural Southern Women, Extension, and Making Money" (University of Georgia Press, 2025)
71 hours 22 mins; June 22, 2025
L. Sasha Gora, "Culinary Claims: Indigenous Restaurant Politics in Canada" (University of Toronto Press, 2025)
56 mins; June 16, 2025
Barry W. Enderwick, "Sandwiches of History: The Cookbook: All the Best (and Most Surprising) Things People Have Put Between Slices of Bread" (Harvard Common Press, 2024)
42 mins; June 15, 2025
Laura Lee Flanagan, "Hardcore Vegetarian: Welcome to the Vegedome!" (Process Media, 2025)
38 mins; May 30, 2025
Andrew Ofstehage, "Welcome to Soylandia: Transnational Farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado" (Cornell UP, 2025)
44 mins; May 19, 2025
Carrie Helms Tippen, "Unpalatable: Stories of Pain and Pleasure in Southern Cookbooks" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
74 hours 9 mins; May 16, 2025
Annalisa Marzano, "Plants, Politics and Empire in Ancient Rome" (Cambridge UP. 2022)
47 mins; April 28, 2025
Fernando Collantes, "Milk in Spain and the History of Diet Change: The Political Economy of Dairy Consumption Since 1950" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
60 hours 2 mins; April 27, 2025
Enrique C. Ochoa, "MĂ©xico Between Feast and Famine: Food, Corporate Power, and Inequality" (U Arizona Press, 2025)
67 hours 28 mins; April 20, 2025
Jennifer Clapp, "Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters" (MIT Press, 2025)
61 hours 57 mins; April 19, 2025
Christof Lammer, "Performing State Boundaries: Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China" (Berghahn, 2024)
99 hours 23 mins; April 18, 2025
Will Potter, "Little Red Barns: Hiding the Truth, from Farm to Fable" (City Lights Books, 2025)
36 mins; April 06, 2025
Nathalie Cooke, "Tastes and Traditions: A Journey Through Menu History" (Reaktion, 2025)
57 mins; April 03, 2025
Sarah Ahn and Nam Soon Ahn, "Umma: A Korean Mom's Kitchen Wisdom and 100 Family Recipes" (America's Test Kitchen, 2025)
39 mins; April 01, 2025
Amy Cox Hall, "The Taste of Nostalgia: Women, Race, and Culinary Longing in Peru" (U Texas Press, 2025)
49 mins; March 21, 2025
Brendan A. Galipeau, "Crafting a Tibetan Terroir: Winemaking in Shangri-La" (U Washington Press, 2025)
76 hours 20 mins; March 06, 2025
Alcohol
20 mins; March 03, 2025
Alexander Smalls and Nina Oduro, "The Contemporary African Kitchen: Home Cooking Recipes from the Leading Chefs of Africa" (Phaidon Press, 2024)
23 mins; February 28, 2025
Kelly Alexander, "Truffles and Trash: Recirculating Food in a Social Welfare State" (UNC Press, 2024)
64 hours 10 mins; February 24, 2025
Emine Ö Evered, "Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity" (U Texas Press, 2024)
54 mins; February 19, 2025
Lori A. Flores, "Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to Covid-19" (UNC Press, 2025)
76 hours 45 mins; February 18, 2025
Philip Howell, "Pub" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
38 mins; February 12, 2025
Zai Liang. "From Chinatown to Every Town: How Chinese Immigrants Have Expanded the Restaurant Business in the United States" (U California Press, 2023)
60 hours 16 mins; February 07, 2025
Shmuel Goldin, "Unlocking the Haggada: The Complete Haggada With In-Depth Commentary" (OU Press, 2018)
19 mins; February 03, 2025
Victor M. Valle, "The Poetics of Fire: Metaphors of Chile Eating in the Borderlands" (U New Mexico Press, 2023)
78 hours 25 mins; January 17, 2025
Patrick Dixon, "Nuggets of Gold: Further Processed Chicken and the Making of the American Diet" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
63 hours 31 mins; January 13, 2025
Ariel Gordon, "Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest" (Wolsak and Wynn, 2024)
44 mins; January 11, 2025
Dayne C. Riley, "Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751" (Bucknell UP, 2024)
43 mins; January 09, 2025
Steven Shapin, "Eating and Being: A History of Ideas about Our Food and Ourselves" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
42 mins; January 08, 2025
Joshua Brinkman on American Farming Culture and the History of Technology
87 hours 40 mins; January 06, 2025
Peter Singer, "Consider the Turkey" (Princeton UP, 2024)
50 mins; December 26, 2024
Lisa Sheryl Jacobson. "Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey After Prohibition" (U California Press, 2024)
89 hours 4 mins; December 25, 2024
Jordan D. Rosenblum, "Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig" (NYU Press, 2024)
62 hours 20 mins; December 24, 2024
Jeffrey M. Pilcher, "Hopped Up: How Travel, Trade, and Taste Made Beer a Global Commodity" (Oxford UP, 2024)
52 mins; December 06, 2024
Russell Thomas, "Tofu: A Culinary History" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
49 mins; December 04, 2024
Rachel Hope Cleves, "Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex" (Polity, 2024)
50 mins; December 03, 2024
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