A former head of the US Food and Drug Administration's view of the obesity crisis and the food industry Jeffrey Steingarten The man who ate everything (1997) and It must've been something I ate (2002) both Alfred A. Knopf Inc., ...
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Food: 25 Amazing Projects Investigate the History and Science of What We Eat gives kids some “food for thought” as they dive into exciting projects about the incredible world of food.
"a no matter what we 're eating A family with whom there was a more competitive relationship would never be invited ... Yet these mealtime chats, though atypical, were moments when my Zabidi friends made moral evaluations about life in ...
In the last five years or so, there has been a huge explosion of scholarly work on the history of food and, likewise, pressing problems such as food scares and...
A Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk . New York : Crown Publishers , 1981 . ... Heavens to Betsy and Other Curious Sayings . New York : Harper & Row , 1955 . ... Loose Cannons and Red Herrings : A Book of Lost Metaphors .
Throughout, the entertaining story of worldwide food traditions provides the ideal backdrop to today's roaming the globe for great gastronomic experiences.
SEAWEED POLYSACCHARIDES As we have just seen, the pectins have a particular place in the structure of the tissues of higher plants. In the seaweeds their place is taken either by the alginates (in the brown algae, the Pheophyceae) or ...
Food: A Love Story is an in-depth, thoroughly uninformed look at everything from health food to things that people actually enjoy eating.
From the bestselling author of Spoon-Fed and The Diet Myth, a comprehensive guide to the new science of nutrition, drawing on Tim Spector's cutting-edge research as one of the world's leading experts in food science.
The book concludes with an examination of two very different future scenarios for feeding the world's population: the technological fix, which looks to science to provide the solution to our future food needs; and the anthropological fix, ...
Feed kids' hunger for fun, challenging puzzles with this seek-and-find title dedicated to food.
Under these circumstances, it is essential that scientists, policymakers, legislators and industry members work together from a common and consistent knowledge base to provide consumers with healthy, nutritious and sustainable food.This ...
Illustrated history of the history of nutrition in ancient Egypt.
Disease outbreaks from tainted food are an ongoing public health challenge.
In some places, food has become a precious commodity—almost like gold. In this book, author Kathlyn Gay explores the complicated interaction between food, business, politics, and the environment.
Presents a collection of essays exploring varying viewpoints on food, covering such topics as the safety of America's food supply, the mistreatment of animals on factory farms, the causes of...
Economics, olitics, and social structure; Nutrition; Agricultural research; Basic bioloy.
"A level 2 Amicus Reader that discusses turn-of-the-century food and cooking methods and how they are different from early 1900s to today. Includes 'What's different?' photo quiz."--T.p. verso.
Food: An Authoritative and Visual History and Dictionary of the Foods of the World