Food and Culture: A Reader
10 best books like Food and Culture: A Reader (Carole Counihan): Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, Bread: A Global History, Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Power, and the Past, Food Fight!: Millennial Mestizaje Meets the Culinary Marketplace, The History and Culture of Japanese Food, White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf, Modern Japanese Cuisine: Food, Power and National Identity, The Hungry World: America's Cold War Battle Against Poverty in Asia, The McDonaldization of Society, Selling the American Way: U.S. Propaganda and the Cold War
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
| Author | John W. Dower |
| ISBN | 0393320278 |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II.
Drawing on a...
| Author | William Rubel |
| ISBN | 1861898541 |
Every nation in every time in every place on earth eats some form of bread. I like this book, I can smell the bread baking, almost taste it spread thickly with butter or mopping up a curry and my hips increase sympathetically.
As soon as hunter gatherers began to settle down in the areas of the world...
Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Power, and the Past
| Author | Sidney W. Mintz |
| ISBN | 0807046299 |
Thematically this book is fantastic. The linkage between food consumption and political and sociological change is in fact rarely consider in the march of progress. His linkage of sugar, the sugar trade, to both the evolution of what is considered upper and lower caste is fascinating. I also loved...
Food Fight!: Millennial Mestizaje Meets the Culinary Marketplace
| Author | Paloma Martinez-Cruz |
| ISBN | 0816536066 |
From the racial defamation and mocking tone of “Mexican” restaurants geared toward the Anglo customer to the high-end Latin-inspired eateries with Anglo chefs who give the impression that the food was something unattended or poorly handled that they “discovered” or “rescued” from...
The History and Culture of Japanese Food
| Author | Naomichi Ishige |
| ISBN | 0710306571 |
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White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
| Author | Aaron Bobrow-Strain |
| ISBN | 0807044679 |
How did white bread, once an icon of American progress, become “white trash”? In this lively history of bakers, dietary crusaders, and social reformers, Aaron Bobrow-Strain shows us that what we think about the humble, puffy loaf says a lot about who we are and what we want our society to look like.
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Modern Japanese Cuisine: Food, Power and National Identity
| Author | Katarzyna J. Cwiertka |
| ISBN | 1861892985 |
Over the past two decades, the popularity of Japanese food in the West has increased immeasurably—a major contribution to the evolution of Western eating habits. But Japanese cuisine itself has changed significantly since pre-modern times, and the food we eat at trendy Japanese restaurants,...
The Hungry World: America's Cold War Battle Against Poverty in Asia
| Author | Nick Cullather |
| ISBN | 0674050789 |
Food was a critical front in the Cold War battle for Asia. Where Communism goes, hunger follows was the slogan of American nation builders who fanned out into the countryside to divert rivers, remodel villages, and introduce tractors, chemicals, and genes to multiply the crops consumed by millions....
The McDonaldization of Society
| Author | George Ritzer |
| ISBN | 0761988122 |
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Well, the main idea of the book is to show the effects of fast-food chains on society. Given an extremely famous example which is MacDonald, the author explains how such a fast-food chain could influence people's values, perceptions, behaviors and lifestyles. Other examples...
Selling the American Way: U.S. Propaganda and the Cold War
| Author | Laura A. Belmonte |
| ISBN | 0812221192 |
In 1955, the United States Information Agency published a lavishly illustrated booklet called My America. Assembled ostensibly to document "the basic elements of a free dynamic society," the booklet emphasized cultural diversity, political freedom, and social mobility and made no mention of...
The Violence of the Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology and Politics
| Author | Vandana Shiva |
| ISBN | 0862329655 |
As the agricultural systems of many countries are poised, as a result of the recent advances in biotechnology for what may soon come to be called the Second Green Revolution, this book is particularly appropriate. Vandana Shiva examined the impact of the first Green Revolution on the breadbasket of...
The Anatomy of Dependence
| Author | Takeo Doi |
| ISBN | 4770028008 |
A classic study of the Japanese psyche, a starting point for a true understanding Japanese behavior....
The discovery that a major concept of human feeling-easily expressed in everyday Japanese- totally resisted translation into a Western language led Dr. Takeo Doi to explore and define...
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture
| Author | Yoshio Sugimoto |
| ISBN | 0521706637 |
This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of the influences that have shaped modern-day Japan. Spanning one and a half centuries from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the beginning of the twenty-first century, this volume covers topics such as technology, food, nationalism and rise of anime...
The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations Throughout History
| Author | Walter F. LaFeber |
| ISBN | 0393318370 |
LaFeber makes a strong case against imperialism or global hegemony of any kind in this fascinating book which naturally has its climax somewhere around the middle of the 20th Century.
A bit too heavy on politics and bureaucrats' names for my taste, the book is undoubtably widely-referenced, if...
The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492
| Author | Alfred W. Crosby |
| ISBN | 0275980928 |
Thirty years ago, Alfred Crosby published a small work that illuminated a simple point, that the most important changes brought on by the voyages of Columbus were not social or political, but biological in nature. The book told the story of how 1492 sparked the movement of organisms, both large and small,...
Oxford Handbook of Food History
Food matters, not only as a subject of study in its own right, but also as a medium for conveying critical messages about capitalism, the environment, and social inequality to diverse audiences. Recent scholarship on the subject draws from both a pathbreaking body of secondary literature and an inexhaustible...
Food Wars: The Global Battle for Mouths, Minds and Markets
| Author | Tim Lang |
| ISBN | 1853837024 |
'Food Wars is a heartening book which calls for a radical change in the way the world feeds itself. It offers a blueprint for a future where nobody goes to bed hungry.' Derek Cooper, founder presenter of the BBC's Food Programme 'An important book that should be read by everyone who cares about how the way...
Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History
| Author | Rachel Laudan |
| ISBN | 0520954912 |
Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world's great cuisines--from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago, to the present--in this superbly researched book. Probing beneath the apparent confusion of dozens of cuisines to reveal the underlying simplicity...
