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In Defense of Processed Food by Anastacia Marx de Salcedo
Category: Diet | Series: Food Controversies Ser.
An iconoclastic celebration of canned, packaged, and preserved foods. By turns a scientific, feminist, and economic critique, this book gleefully attacks received wisdom about the dangers of processed food. Anastacia Marx de Salcedo argues that, in fact, most processed foods are relatively healthy and ...Show more
Why Fast? - The Pros and Cons of Restrictive Eating by Christine Baumgarthuber
Category: Diet | Series: Food Controversies Ser.
A sober engagement with the diverse meanings of intermittent fasting in human culture. Fasting from food is a controversial, dangerous, and yet utterly normal human practice. In Why Fast?, Christine Baumgarthuber engages our fascination with restrictive eating in cultural history. If fasting offers fe ...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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