E-raamat: Food and World Culture: Issues, Impacts, and Ingredients [ 2 volumes]

Whether because of its necessity, pleasure, or ubiquity, the world of food (and its lore) proves endlessly fascinating to most people. The story of food is a narrative filled with both human striving and human suffering. However, many of todays diners are only dimly aware of the human price exacted for that comforting distance from the lived-world realities of food justice struggles. With attention to food issues ranging from local farming practices to global supply chains, this book examines how food’s history and geography remain inextricably linked to sociopolitical experiences of trauma connected with globalization, such as colonization, conquest, enslavement, and oppression.The main text is structured alphabetically around a set of 70 ingredients, from almonds to yeast. Each ingredients story is accompanied by recipes. Along with the food profiles, the encyclopedia features sidebars. These are short discussions of topics of interest related to food, including automats, diners, victory gardens, and food at world’s fairs. This project also brings a social justice perspective to its content—weighing debates concerning food access, equity, insecurity, and politics. This book uses food as a lens through which to explore important matters of society and culture. In exploring why and how people eat around the globe, the text focuses on issues of health, conflict, struggle, contest, inequality, and power.Whether because of its necessity, pleasure, or ubiquity, the world of food (and its lore) proves endlessly fascinating to most people. The story of food is a narrative filled with both human striving and human suffering. However, many of todays diners are only dimly aware of the human price exacted for that comforting distance from the lived-world realities of food justice struggles. With attention to food issues ranging from local farming practices to global supply chains, this book examines how food’s history and geography remain inextricably linked to sociopolitical experiences of trauma connected with globalization, such as colonization, conquest, enslavement, and oppression.The main text is structured alphabetically around a set of 70 ingredients, from almonds to yeast. Each ingredients story is accompanied by recipes. Along with the food profiles, the encyclopedia features sidebars. These are short discussions of topics of interest related to food, including automats, diners, victory gardens, and food at world’s fairs. This project also brings a social justice perspective to its content—weighing debates concerning food access, equity, insecurity, and politics.Consolidates the historical and geographical backstory of common foods and ingredientsPoses possibilities in terms of the ways food studies can contribute to building a more inclusive, equitable, and humane worldConsiders the future of food, as informed by phenomena from climate change to global pandemicIncludes adapted recipes with an in-depth analysis of ingredients This book explores local food practices and global food systems, using food studies as a helpful lens through which to view social relations of consequence: health, conflict, struggle, contest, inequality, and power-- From almonds to yeast, this two-volume, illustrated reference for students in high school and up profiles 70 food ingredients from around the world, highlighting cultural meanings of food. The introduction overviews food as a lens on culture and sketches the history of food, the food trade, and connections between social justice and food studies. Each entry (about 5-10 pages) begins with scientific names and nutritional info, then provides a list of fun facts about that food, followed by details on production and consumption, cultural diffusion, trade and economic factors, and societal issues. Next, each entry gives info on beverage, culinary, household, industrial, and medicinal uses. Sidebars present high-interest topics for each food covered. Entries end with several recipes from cuisines of different parts of the world. For ease of use, the reference contains an alphabetical list of foods, food profiles by category, and lists of sidebars and recipes. A glossary and black and white photos are also included. Annotation ©2022 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)