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Lindsay Gardner, "Why We Cook: Women on Food, Identity, and Connection" (Workman, 2021)
53 mins; May 07, 2021
Of Rice and Men: How Food Production is Driving Antimicrobial Resistance amongst Fungi in Vietnam
17 mins; May 06, 2021
R. Harde and J. Wesselius, "Consumption and the Literary Cookbook" (Routledge, 2020)
64 hours 24 mins; April 08, 2021
Lucas Bessire, "Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains" (Princeton UP, 2021)
48 mins; April 01, 2021
Carol J. Adams, "The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory" (Bloomsbury, 2015)
78 hours 52 mins; March 19, 2021
Tessa Clarke: Co Founder & CEO of Olio, a Company Dedicated to Cutting Food Waste
61 hours 35 mins; March 16, 2021
Tom Philpott, "ï»żPerilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent Itï»ż" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
59 mins; March 04, 2021
Rethinking Rural Livelihoods and Food Security in Myanmar with Assistant Professor Mark Vicol
24 mins; March 04, 2021
Priya Basil, "Be My Guest: Reflections on Food, Community, and the Meaning of Generosity" (Knopf, 2020)
49 mins; March 04, 2021
Winifred Bird, "Eating Wild Japan: Tracking the Culture of Foraged Foods, with a Guide to Plants and Recipes" (Stone Bridge Press, 2021)
99 hours 57 mins; March 01, 2021
Sam van Zweden, "Eating with My Mouth Open" (NewSouth, 2021)
57 mins; February 26, 2021
Kaitland M. Byrd, "Real Southern Barbecue: Constructing Authenticity in Southern Food Culture" (Lexington, 2019)
60 hours 57 mins; February 25, 2021
Eli Revelle Yano Wilson, "Front of the House, Back of the House: Race and Inequality in the Lives of Restaurant Workers" (NYU Press, 2020)
64 hours 29 mins; February 12, 2021
Anthony Warner, "Ending Hunger: The Quest to Feed the World without Destroying It" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
36 mins; February 08, 2021
M. Nestle and K. Trueman, "Let's Ask Marion: What You Need to Know about the Politics of Food, Nutrition, and Health" (U California Press, 2020)
52 mins; January 13, 2021
K. M. Broton and C. L. Cady, "Food Insecurity on Campus: Action and Intervention" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
72 hours 35 mins; January 11, 2021
Mike Shanahan, "Ladders to Heaven: How Figs Shaped our History" (Unbound, 2016)
34 mins; December 04, 2020
Peter Singer, "Why Vegan?: Eating Ethically" (Liveright, 2020)
59 mins; December 03, 2020
Amalia LeguizamĂłn, "Seeds of Power: Environmental Injustice and Genetically Modified Soybeans in Argentina" (Duke UP, 2020)
61 hours 33 mins; November 24, 2020
Emily J. H. Contois, "Diners, Dudes, and Diets: How Gender and Power Collide in Food Media and Culture" (UNC Press, 2020)
66 hours 46 mins; November 19, 2020
James Staples, "Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian: The Everyday Politics of Eating Meat in India" (U Washington Press, 2020)
65 hours 43 mins; November 09, 2020
Improving Food Security in Laos and Cambodia: A Farmer’s Perspective with Associate Professor Russell Bush
22 mins; November 05, 2020
Andrew Liu, "Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India" (Yale UP, 2020)
50 mins; November 04, 2020
Jessica Martell, "Farm to Form: Modernist Literature and Ecologies of Food in the British Empire" (U Nevada Press, 2020)
76 hours 31 mins; October 01, 2020
Brian R. Dott, "The Chile Pepper in China: A Cultural Biography" (Columbia UP, 2020)
81 hours 32 mins; September 23, 2020
Lauren F. Klein, "An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
48 mins; August 24, 2020
K. Keeling and S. Pollard, "Table Lands: Food in Children's Literature" (U Mississippi Press, 2020)
69 hours 56 mins; August 14, 2020
Emily Pawley, "The Nature of the Future: Agriculture, Science, and Capitalism in the Antebellum North" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
61 hours 9 mins; August 11, 2020
Emily Wallace, "Road Sides: An Illustrated Companion to Dining and Driving in the American South" (U Texas Press, 2019)
50 mins; July 24, 2020
Elizabeth A. Williams, "Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750-1950" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
51 mins; July 15, 2020
Virgie Tovar, "You Have the Right to Remain Fat" (Feminist Press, 2018)
67 hours 23 mins; July 15, 2020
Kregg Hetherington, "The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops" (Duke UP, 2020)
62 hours 54 mins; July 14, 2020
Hanna Garth, "Food In Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal" (Stanford UP, 2020)
48 mins; July 09, 2020
Kennan Ferguson, "Cookbooks Politics" (U Penn Press, 2020)
52 mins; July 01, 2020
Candi K. Cann, "Dying to Eat: Cross Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death and the Afterlife" (UP of Kentucky, 2018)
52 mins; July 01, 2020
D. Conley and J. Eckstein, "Cookery: Food Rhetorics and Social Production" (U Alabama Press, 2020)
49 mins; June 30, 2020
Kathryn M. De Luna, "Collecting Food, Collecting People: Subsistence and Society in Central Africa" (Yale UP, 2016)
68 hours 17 mins; June 04, 2020
James C. Scott, "Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States" (Yale UP, 2017)
52 mins; June 03, 2020
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
120 hours 37 mins; June 02, 2020
Katarzyna J. Cwiertka, "Branding Japan’s Food: From Meibutsu to Washoku" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
56 mins; May 29, 2020
E. Engelhardt and L. Smith, "The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell: Contemporary Appalachian Table" (Ohio UP, 2019)
55 mins; May 25, 2020
Louis A. PĂ©rez, "Rice in the Time of Sugar: The Political Economy of Food in Cuba" (UNC Press, 2019)
56 mins; May 19, 2020
Witold SzabƂowski, "How to Feed a Dictator" (Penguin, 2020)
64 hours 52 mins; May 07, 2020
Mythri Jegathesan, "Tea and Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka" (U Washington Press, 2019)
55 mins; May 05, 2020
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
59 mins; April 28, 2020
Phoebe Lickwar and Roxi Thoren, "Farmscape: The Design of Productive Landscapes" (Routledge, 2020)
58 mins; April 21, 2020
David Lebovitz, "Drinking French" (Ten Speed Press, 2020)
49 mins; April 14, 2020
Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger, "Southern Comforts: Drinking and the US South" (LSU Press, 2020)
60 hours 57 mins; April 10, 2020
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
51 mins; March 30, 2020
Irina Georgescu, "Carpathia: Food from the Heart of Romania” (Interlink Books, 2020)
51 mins; March 27, 2020
Karima Moyer-Nocchi, "The Eternal Table: A Cultural History of Food in Rome" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
56 mins; March 19, 2020
Jennifer E. Gaddis, "The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools" (U California Press, 2019)
57 mins; March 06, 2020
Justin Nystrom, "Creole Italian: Sicilian Immigrants and the Shaping of New Orleans Food Culture" (U Georgia Press, 2018)
59 mins; March 05, 2020
Darra Goldstein, "Beyond the North Wind: Russia in Recipes and Lore" (Random House, 2020)
49 mins; March 04, 2020
Lana Dee Povitz, ​"Stirrings: How Activist New Yorkers Ignited a Movement for Food Justice" ​(UNC Press, 2019)
38 mins; March 03, 2020
Emily E. LB. Twarog, "Politics of the Pantry: Housewives, Food, and Consumer Protest in Twentieth-Century America" (Oxford UP, 2017)
40 mins; February 26, 2020
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
42 mins; February 25, 2020
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
36 mins; January 30, 2020
J. L. Anderson, "Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, Pork, and Power in America" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
58 mins; January 21, 2020
Hillary Reinsberg, "Zagat 2020 New York City Restaurants: Special 40th Anniversary Edition" (Zagat, 2019)
65 hours 21 mins; January 06, 2020
Maria Veri and Rita Liberti, "Gridiron Gourmet: Gender and Food at the Football Tailgate" (U Arkansas Press, 2019)
53 mins; January 03, 2020
Joshua Specht, "Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America" (Princeton UP, 2019)
30 mins; December 30, 2019
A. R. Ruis, "Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States" (Rutgers UP, 2017)
71 hours 49 mins; December 10, 2019
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
57 mins; December 03, 2019
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
37 mins; November 03, 2019
Rachel Laudan, "Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History" (U California Press, 2015)
44 mins; October 24, 2019
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
29 mins; October 24, 2019
Rafia Zafar, "Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
63 hours 21 mins; October 11, 2019
Geoffrey Barstow, "Food of Sinful Demons: Meat, Vegetarianism, and the Limits of Buddhism in Tibet" (Columbia UP, 2018)
62 hours 35 mins; October 01, 2019
Ashanté M. Reese, "Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C." (UNC Press, 2019)
52 mins; September 23, 2019
Jennifer Jensen Wallach, "What We Need Ourselves: How Food has Shaped African American Life" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
56 mins; September 18, 2019
Mark Winne, "Food Town USA: Seven Unlikely Cities that are Changing the Way We Eat" (Island Press, 2019)
46 mins; September 12, 2019
Aaron Hale-Dorrell, "Corn Crusade: Khrushchev’s Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union" (Oxford UP, 2018)
77 hours 41 mins; September 11, 2019
Carol J. Adams, "Burger" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
66 hours 46 mins; August 13, 2019
A. Lakhtikova, A. Brintlinger, and I. Glushchenko, "Seasoned Socialism: Gender and Food in Late Soviet Everyday Life" (Indiana UP, 2019)
62 hours 33 mins; August 01, 2019
Krishnendu Ray, "The Ethnic Restaurateur" (Bloomsbury, 2016)
47 mins; July 31, 2019
David R. Montgomery, "Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life" (W. W. Norton, 2018)
57 mins; July 26, 2019
Rachel B. Herrmann, "No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution" (Cornell UP, 2019)
43 mins; July 22, 2019
Brian Haara, "Bourbon Justice: How Whiskey Law Shaped America" (Potomac Books, 2015)
63 hours 17 mins; July 17, 2019
Catherine Keyser, "Artificial Color: Modern Food and Racial Fictions" (Oxford UP, 2019)
74 hours 16 mins; July 15, 2019
Jeanette M. Fregulia, "A Rich and Tantalizing Brew: A History of How Coffee Connected the World" (U Arkansas Press, 2019))
47 mins; June 26, 2019
John O'Brien, "States of Intoxication: The Place of Alcohol in Civilisation" (Routledge, 2018)
48 mins; June 20, 2019
Veronica Hinke, "The Last Night on the Titanic: Unsinkable Drinking, Dining, and Style" (Regnery History, 2019)
53 mins; May 30, 2019
Nico Slate, "Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet: Eating with the World in Mind" (U Washington Press, 2019)
54 mins; May 17, 2019
Kristin D. Phillips, "An Ethnography of Hunger: Politics, Subsistence, and the Unpredictable Grace of the Sun" (Indiana UP, 2018)
69 hours 37 mins; May 09, 2019
Stéphane Henaut and Jeni Mitchell, "A Bite-Sized History of France: Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment" (The New Press, 2018)
55 mins; March 25, 2019
Alex Colas et al., "Food, Politics, and Society Social Theory and the Modern Food System" (U California Press, 2018)
44 mins; March 20, 2019
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
32 mins; March 19, 2019
Jodi Campbell, "At the First Table: Food and Social Identity in Early Modern Spain" (U Nebraska Press, 2017)
33 mins; January 29, 2019
Nicholas Bauch, "Geography of Digestion: Biotechnology and the Kellogg Enterprise" (U California Press, 2017)
62 hours 16 mins; January 11, 2019
You eat what you are and are what you eat, right?
50 mins; December 20, 2018
Stephan J. Guyenet, "The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat" (Flatiron Books, 2017)
64 hours 28 mins; December 19, 2018
Venus Bivar, “Organic Resistance: The Struggle over Industrial Farming in Postwar France” (UNC Press, 2018)
80 hours 38 mins; October 16, 2018
Benjamin R. Siegel, “Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
42 mins; October 05, 2018
Alyshia Gálvez, “Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico” (U. California Press, 2018)
55 mins; September 19, 2018
Shachar M. Pinsker, “A Rich Brew: How CafĂ©s Created Modern Jewish Culture” (NYU Press, 2018)
50 mins; August 06, 2018
Kelley Fanto Deetz, “Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine” (UP of Kentucky, 2017)
49 mins; July 26, 2018
Norah MacKendrick, “Better Safe Than Sorry: How Consumers Navigate Exposure to Everyday Toxics” (U California Press, 2018).
71 hours 35 mins; July 19, 2018
Adrienne Rose Bitar, “Diet and the Disease of Civilization” (Rutgers UP, 2018)
55 mins; July 17, 2018
Jeff Koelher, “Where the Wild Coffee Grows: The Untold Story of Coffee from the Cloud Forests of Ethiopia to Your Cup” (Bloomsbury, 2017)
47 mins; July 02, 2018
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