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Material Worlds eBook Series

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  • Culinary Tourism

    by Lucy M. Long ...
    Series series Material Worlds
    "Well-researched and original" essays on the intersection between food and adventure ( Publishers Weekly).Culinary Tourism is the first book to consider food as both a destination and a means for tourism. The book's contributors examine the many intersections of food, culture, and tourism in public and commercial contexts, in private and domestic settings, and around the world.The contributors ... Read more

    S$ 17.76 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Table Comes First

    by Adam Gopnik ...
    Our modern society is very particular about what constitutes good food: local, seasonal, organic produce that doesn't overly impact on the environment. But throughout history every generation has believed that it alone knows the true value of food, and looked with distaste on the culinary practices of its predecessors. Not so long ago eating food from around the world was the mark of the cultural ... Read more

    S$ 18.85 SGD

  • An Economist Gets Lunch

    New Rules for Everyday Foodies

    by Tyler Cowen ...
    A leading economist, “who may very well turn out to be this decade’s Thomas Friedman” (Wall Street Journal), illuminates the state of American food todayTyler Cowen, one of the most influential economists of the last decade, wants you to know that just about everything you’ve heard about how to get good food is wrong. Drawing on a provocative range of examples from around the globe, Cowen reveals ... Read more

    S$ 7.84 SGD

  • Investigating Culture

    An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology

    by Carol Delaney ...
    In its new Second Edition, the innovative and ever-popular Investigating Culture has been updated and revised to incorporate new teacher and student feedback. Carol Delaney and Deborah Kaspin provide an expanded introduction to cultural anthropology that is even more accessible to students.Revised and enhanced new edition that incorporates additional material and classroom feedbackAccessible to a ... Read more

    S$ 49.99 SGD

  • The Food Snob's Dictionary

    An Essential Lexicon of Gastronomical Knowledge

    by David Kamp, Marion Rosenfeld ...
    Food Snob n: reference term for the sort of food obsessive for whom the actual joy of eating and cooking is but a side dish to the accumulation of arcane knowledge about these subjectsFrom the author of The United States of Arugula--and coauthor of The Film Snob’s Dictionary and The Rock Snob’s Dictionary--a delectable compendium of food facts, terminology, and famous names that gives ordinary ... Read more

    S$ 17.43 SGD

  • Food

    The Key Concepts

    by Warren Belasco ...
    Series series The Key Concepts
    Food: The Key Concepts presents an exciting, coherent and interdisciplinary introduction to food studies for the beginning reader. Food Studies is an increasingly complex field, drawing on disciplines as diverse as Sociology, Anthropology and Cultural Studies at one end and Economics, Politics and Agricultural Science at the other.In order to clarify the issues, Food: The Key Concepts distills ... Read more

    S$ 38.90 SGD

  • White Bread

    A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf

    by Aaron Bobrow-Strain ...
    The story of how white bread became white trash, this social history shows how our relationship with the love-it-or-hate-it food staple reflects our country’s changing valuesIn the early twentieth century, the factory-baked loaf heralded a bright new future, a world away from the hot, dusty, “dirty” bakeries run by immigrants. Fortified with vitamins, this bread was considered the original ... Read more

    S$ 19.94 SGD

  • How We Eat

    by Leon Rappoport ...
    Rappoport treats the dinner table like a Freudian couch, asking us to lie back and spill our guts. Tracing our culinary customs from the Stone Age to the stovetop range, he illuminates our complex and often contradictory eating habits, and suggests that perhaps we are what we eat. ... Read more

    S$ 13.61 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Baking as Biography

    A Life Story in Recipes

    by Diane Tye ...
    Hidden among the simple lists of ingredients and directions for everyday foods are surprising stories. In Baking as Biography, Diane Tye considers her mother's recipe collection, reading between the lines of the aging index cards to provide a candid and nuanced portrait of one woman's life as mother, minister's wife, and participant in local Maritime women's networks. ... Read more

    S$ 27.68 SGD

  • Eating Our Way Toward Civilization: How food processing shaped human body, mind and cultures

    by Nataly Sielicki ...
    In the series of short essays the author overviews works of anthropologists, archeologists, cultural sociologists, historians and gastronomists who argue that the cooking played a significant role in human evolution and history, and sometimes even whole Empires "were built not by the sword but by the spoon". The ancient and modern cuisines bear a deep imprint of the civilizations they appeared and ... Read more

    S$ 1.25 SGD

  • Ferran

    The Inside Story of El Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented Food

    by Colman Andrews ...
    The first-ever biography of Ferran Adrià, the chef behind Spain's renowned El Bulli restaurant, by one of the world's foremost food authorities.More than just the most influential chef of the late-twentieth and early-twenty- first century, Ferran Adrià is arguably the greatest culinary revolutionary of our time. Hailed as a genius and a prophet by fellow chefs, worshipped (if often misunderstood) ... Read more

    S$ 8.71 SGD

  • Ten Restaurants That Changed America

    by Paul Freedman ...
    Finalist for the IACP Cookbook AwardA Washington Post Notable Book of the YearA Smithsonian Best Food Book of the YearLonglisted for the Art of Eating PrizeFeaturing a new chapter on ten restaurants changing America today, a “fascinating . . . sweep through centuries of food culture” (Washington Post).Combining an historian’s rigor with a food enthusiast’s palate, Paul Freedman’s seminal and h... ... Read more

    S$ 22.66 SGD