Books In Print 2004-2005


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Taste of Homes's Holiday and Celebrations Cookbook


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Contains recipes for Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, and special celebrations including Valentine's Day, Kentucky Derby.




Christmas Traditions, Legends, Recipes from Around the World


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Christmas is now a worldwide holiday! However, each country creates its own traditions and celebrates the birth of Christ in unique ways. This makes for an endlessly creative and diverse manifestations of this one holiday; here is just a few of the 195 nations traditions.




Library Journal


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Israel


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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Pack your bags! We’re headed to Israel. On this whirlwind tour, you’ll learn all about the country’s landscape, culture, people, and more. We’ll explore Israel’s busy cities, sun-baked deserts, and coastal plains and even visit a kibbutz. We’ll also find out what foods people eat and how they celebrate holidays. A special section introduces Israel’s capital, official languages, population, and flag. Hop on board and take a fun-filled look at your world.




Food and World Culture [2 volumes]


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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 today's 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 ingredient's 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.




Vegetarian Times


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To do what no other magazine does: Deliver simple, delicious food, plus expert health and lifestyle information, that's exclusively vegetarian but wrapped in a fresh, stylish mainstream package that's inviting to all. Because while vegetarians are a great, vital, passionate niche, their healthy way of eating and the earth-friendly values it inspires appeals to an increasingly large group of Americans. VT's goal: To embrace both.




Edible Identities: Food as Cultural Heritage


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Food - its cultivation, preparation and communal consumption - has long been considered a form of cultural heritage. A dynamic, living product, food creates social bonds as it simultaneously marks off and maintains cultural difference. In bringing together anthropologists, historians and other scholars of food and heritage, this volume closely examines the ways in which the cultivation, preparation, and consumption of food is used to create identity claims of 'cultural heritage' on local, regional, national and international scales. Contributors explore a range of themes, including how food is used to mark insiders and outsiders within an ethnic group; how the same food's meanings change within a particular society based on class, gender or taste; and how traditions are 'invented' for the revitalization of a community during periods of cultural pressure. Featuring case studies from Europe, Asia and the Americas, this timely volume also addresses the complex processes of classifying, designating, and valorizing food as 'terroir,' 'slow food,' or as intangible cultural heritage through UNESCO. By effectively analyzing food and foodways through the perspectives of critical heritage studies, this collection productively brings two overlapping but frequently separate theoretical frameworks into conversation.