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  • Food History

    Cultures of Food in the Modern World

    by Simone Cinotto, Gabriele Proglio ...
    Food History: Cultures of Food in the Modern World analyzes the history of food as a dynamic, contextual process unfolding over time and space, diversified across the many food cultures and food systems of the world.The book examines cuisines and tastes as historical formations, products of exchange and trade, shaped by the mobility of people, plants, and animals, as well as by the agricultural ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • New Italian Migrations to the United States: Vol. 2

    Art and Culture since 1945

    by Joseph Sciorra, Anthony Julian Tamburri, John Allan Cicala, Simone Cinotto, Teresa Fiore, Incoronata Inserra, Laura E Ruberto ...
    This second volume of New Italian Migrations to the United States explores the evolution of art and cultural expressions created by and about Italian immigrants and their descendants since 1945. The essays range from an Italian-language radio program that broadcast intimate messages from family members in Italy to the role of immigrant cookbook writers in crafting a fashionable Italian food ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Food Mobilities

    Making World Cuisines

    Edited by Daniel E. Bender, Simone Cinotto ...
    Series Book 1 - Culinaria
    Bringing together multidisciplinary scholars from the growing discipline of food studies, Food Mobilities examines food provisioning and the food cultures of the world, historically and in contemporary times. The collection offers a range of fascinating case studies, including explorations of Italian food in colonial Ethiopia, traditional Cornish pasties in Mexico, migrant community gardeners in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Gastrofascism and Empire

    Food in Italian East Africa, 1935-1941

    by Simone Cinotto ...
    Series series Food in Modern History: Traditions and Innovations
    Food stood at the centre of Mussolini's attempt to occupy Ethiopia and build an Italian Empire in East Africa. Seeking to redirect the surplus of Italian rural labor from migration overseas to its own Empire, the fascist regime envisioned transforming Ethiopia into Italy's granary to establish self-sufficiency, demographic expansion and strengthen Italy's international political position. While ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Making Italian America

    Consumer Culture and the Production of Ethnic Identities

    by Simone Cinotto ...
    Series series Critical Studies in Italian America
    Fourteen cultural history essays exploring the relationship between Italian Americans, consumer culture, and the American identity.How do immigrants and their children forge their identities in a new land? And how does the ethnic culture they create thrive in the larger society? Making Italian America brings together new scholarship on the cultural history of consumption, immigration, and ethnic ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Global Jewish Foodways

    A History

    Edited by Hasia R. Diner, Simone Cinotto ...
    Series series At Table
    The history of the Jewish people has been a history of migration. Although Jews invariably brought with them their traditional ideas about food during these migrations, just as invariably they engaged with the foods they encountered in their new environments. Their culinary habits changed as a result of both these migrations and the new political and social realities they encountered. The stories ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Soft Soil, Black Grapes

    The Birth of Italian Winemaking in California

    by Simone Cinotto ...
    Series Book 21 - Nation of Nations
    Winner of the 2013 New York Book Show Award in Scholarly/Professional Book DesignFrom Ernest and Julio Gallo to Francis Ford Coppola, Italians have shaped the history of California wine. More than any other group, Italian immigrants and their families have made California viticulture one of America’s most distinctive and vibrant achievements, from boutique vineyards in the Sonoma hills to the ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

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  • Edible Economics

    A Hungry Economist Explains the World

    by Ha-Joon Chang ...
    A creative and surprising exploration of economics through the lens of the food and global cuisine―from the bestselling author of Economics.For decades, a single, free-market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this intellectual monoculture is bland and unhealthy. Ha-Joon Chang makes challenging economic ideas delicious by plating them alongside stories about food from around the world, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Modern Italy

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Anna Cento Bull ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The history of modern Italy is characterized by recurrent cultural and political projects of modernity, rejuvenation, and regeneration; projects which often had their roots in a widespread dissatisfaction with social and political reality, and perceived moral corruption. The Risorgimento, the movement leading to Italian Unification in 1861, explicitly linked the quest for national unity to a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • An Economist Gets Lunch

    New Rules for Everyday Foodies

    by Tyler Cowen ...
    A leading economist, “who may very well turn out to be this decade’s Thomas Friedman” (Wall Street Journal), illuminates the state of American food todayTyler Cowen, one of the most influential economists of the last decade, wants you to know that just about everything you’ve heard about how to get good food is wrong. Drawing on a provocative range of examples from around the globe, Cowen reveals ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • What We Eat

    A Global History of Food

    Edited by Pierre Singaravélou, Sylvain Venayre ...
    Series series Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
    Ketchup seems iconically American, but the word comes from a Southeast Asian anchovy sauce, and today it is made largely from Chinese tomato paste. Japan’s beloved ramen arose from the meeting of Chinese noodles and American wheat flour before attaining worldwide popularity in both gourmet and convenience-food forms. The baguette is mythologized as a product of the French Revolution, but in fact ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • White Bread

    A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf

    by Aaron Bobrow-Strain ...
    The story of how white bread became white trash, this social history shows how our relationship with the love-it-or-hate-it food staple reflects our country’s changing valuesIn the early twentieth century, the factory-baked loaf heralded a bright new future, a world away from the hot, dusty, “dirty” bakeries run by immigrants. Fortified with vitamins, this bread was considered the original ... Read more

    $14.99 USD