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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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Catching Fire
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human © 2009 Richard Wrangham309 pages Cooking has created a great many fantastic dish throughout the centuries, but Richard Wrangham holds that the culinary art’s greatest triumph is us — humanity, for the advent of … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, evolution, food, food and drink, natural history, nutrition, science
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Fast Food Nation
Fast Food Nation: the Dark Side of the All-American Meal© 2001 Eric Schlosser362 pages I underestimated Fast Food Nation. I’d expected a heated attack on the subject from a nutritional standpoint, but Eric Schlosser’s history and overview of fast food’s … Continue reading
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Tagged critical history, Eric Schlosser, food, food and drink, goods/services, marketing, nutrition, social criticism, Society and Culture
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Salt
Salt: A World History© 2003 Mark Kurlansky498 pages Last Autumn, my doctor advised me to start watching the amount of salt in my diet, and so I did. That this was a concern surprised me: I was never one to … Continue reading
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Tagged Britain, China, economics, Egypt, food, food and drink, goods/services, history, Rome
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