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Grow Food, Cook Food, Share Food: Perspectives on Eating from the Past and a Preliminary Agenda for the Future (OSU Press Horning Visiting Scholars Publication)
Ken Albala
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Paperback. Series: Horning Visiting Scholars Publication. Num Pages: 112 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 6. Weight in Grams: 150.
Grow Food, Cook Food, Share Food is a practical food history lesson, an editorial on our use of packaged convenience foods, and a call to arms—of the kitchen variety. Mixing food writing and history, adding a dash of cookbook, author and scholar Ken Albala shares the story of what happened when he started taking food history seriously and embarked on a mission to grow, cook, and share food in the ways that people did in the past.
Albala considers what the traditions we have needlessly lost have to offer us today: a serious appreciation for the generative power ... Read more
Grow Food, Cook Food, Share Food is a practical food history lesson, an editorial on our use of packaged convenience foods, and a call to arms—of the kitchen variety. Mixing food writing and history, adding a dash of cookbook, author and scholar Ken Albala shares the story of what happened when he started taking food history seriously and embarked on a mission to grow, cook, and share food in the ways that people did in the past.
Albala considers what the traditions we have needlessly lost have to offer us today: a serious appreciation for the generative power ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Condition
New
Series
Horning Visiting Scholars Publication
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
Corvallis, OR, United States
ISBN
9780870717185
SKU
V9780870717185
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Ref
99-15
About Ken Albala
Ken Albala is Professor of History at the University of the Pacific, USA and author or editor of sixteen books, including Eating Right in the Renaissance, The Banquet, and Beans: A History (2008 IACP Jane Grigson Award). Albala edited the Food Cultures Around the World series, the 4-volume Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia, and is now series editor of ... Read more
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