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Fast Food: The Good, the Bad and the Hungry by Andrew F. Smith
Category: Politics | Series: Food Controversies
Fast food is the most pervasive culinary trend of our time. It is an industry that has changed the way the world eats, as the model works virtually everywhere. At its heart are large multinational chains, running an estimated one million outlets in virtually every corner of the world, serving hundreds o ...Show more
Hamburger : A Global History by Andrew F. Smith
Category: Food Cooking Wine
Perhaps the most ubiquitous fast food in the Western world, the hamburger has come to represent all that is best and worst in American culture; but how many of us know how and where the hamburger originated? "Hamburger", one of the first in Reaktion's mouth-watering new series "Edible", traces the globa ...Show more
New York City: A Food Biography by Andrew F. Smith
Category: Food Cooking Wine | Series: Big City Food Biographies
New York City's first food biography showcases all the vibrancy, innovation, diversity, influence, and taste of this most-celebrated American metropolis. Its cuisine has developed as a lively potluck supper, where discrete culinary traditions have survived, thrived, and interacted. For almost 400 years ...Show more
Potato: A Global History by Andrew F. Smith
Category: Food Cooking Wine | Series: Edible
Potato tells the captivating tale of a seemingly lowly vegetable that has changed - and continues to change - the world. Featuring lip-smacking images, the book also contains recipes for potatoes fried, puffed, scalloped, mashed and wedged, as well as potato cakes, tattie scones and Chinese potato chips ...Show more
Sugar : A Global History by Andrew F. Smith
Category: Food Cooking Wine | Series: Edible Ser.
It's no surprise that sugar has been on our minds for millennia. First cultivated in New Guinea around 8,000 B.C.E., this addictive sweetener has since come to dominate our appetites--whether in candy, desserts, soft drinks, or even pasta sauces--for better and for worse. In this book, Andrew F. Smith o ...Show more
Why Waste Food? by Andrew F. Smith
Category: Cooking | Series: Food Controversies Ser.
About one-third of all food grown for human consumption is lost or discarded every year, despite financial, environmental, and ethical reasons not to waste food. We grow enough food to adequately feed everyone on the planet, yet hundreds of millions of people suffer from hunger, malnutrition, or food in ...Show more
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