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Crunchy Cons
Crunchy Cons: How Birkenstocked Burkeans, gun-loving organic gardeners, evangelical free-range farmers, hip homeschooling mamas, right-wing nature lovers, and their diverse tribe of counterculture conservatives plan to save America (or at least the Republican party) © 2006 Rod Dreher 272 pages … Continue reading
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Tagged children, civic activism, conservative, education, food, food and drink, gardening, marriage and family, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, Rod Dreher, sacramental living
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Cattle
Cattle: an Informal Social History© 2001 Laurie Winn Carlson321 pages Consider…the cow. A humble creature, its dopey expression reveals no vast intelligence, and its barrel of a body gives it virtually no athletic ability, but it is remarkable if nothing … Continue reading
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Tagged animal domestication, disease, farming, food, food and drink, goods/services, social history
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Bringing up Bébé
Bringing up Bébé: One Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting© 2012 Pamela Druckerman304 pages When Pamela Druckerman moved to Paris to start a life with her new husband, she noticed something rather odd about French children: they behaved. Long … Continue reading
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Tagged children, cultural exploration, food, food and drink, France, lifestyle, marriage and family, parenting
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French Lessons
French Lessons: Adventures with the Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew© 2001 Peter Mayle227 pages Peter Mayle is to be envied. Some people’s work involves overseeing hundreds of people and managing the affairs of a business that skirts bankruptcy other day. Some … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, cultural exploration, Epicures, food, food and drink, France, travel
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French Women Don’t Get Fat
French Women Don’t Get Fat: the Secret of Eating for Pleasure© 2005 Mireille Guiliano263 pages You may have heard of the French Paradox. In an age of innumerable health crises (obesity, diabetes, cancer) tied to diet, where every item in … Continue reading
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Tagged Epicures, food, food and drink, France, lifestyle, social criticism, Society and Culture
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The Green Metropolis
The Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability© 2009 David Owen357 pages Green is probably not the word that comes to mind at the mention of Manhattan, but to David Owen, few … Continue reading
The Great Good Place
The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and the Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community© 1989 Ray Oldenburg336 pages In Our Oriental Heritage, Will Durant wrote that man is not willingly a political animal, … Continue reading
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Tagged food, food and drink, goods/services, humanities, personal favorite, social criticism, Society and Culture, sociology, urbanism
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Something from the Oven
Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America 306 pages © 2004 Laura Shaprio The latter half of the 20th century saw the United States convulsed with social change. Millions of women and blacks who found their … Continue reading
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Tagged food, food and drink, goods/services, history, marketing, social history, Society and Culture, women, women's studies
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Why We Get Fat
Why We Get Fat: and What To Do About It© 2011, 2012 Gary Taubes267 pages The secret of weight, we are told, is as simple as physics, as the laws of thermodynamics. If we take in more energy in eating … Continue reading
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Tagged biochemistry, EconTalk, food, food and drink, Gary Taubes, health/wellness, nutrition, science, social criticism, Society and Culture
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A History of the World in Six Glasses
A History of the World in Six Glasses© 2006 Tom Standage311 pages A toast to human enterprise! Pick your poison — beer, wine, rum, tea, coffee, or Coca-Cola. Three are alcoholic, three are caffienated: all were the stuff of empires, … Continue reading
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Tagged America, American Revolution, ancient world, Britain, China, classical world, Egypt, food, food and drink, goods/services, Greece, history, Rome, social history
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