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Jodi Campbell, “At the First Table: Food and Social Identity in Early Modern Spain” (U Nebraska Press, 2017)

Jodi Campbell
At the First Table
Food and Social Identity in Early Modern Spain
University of Nebraska Press, 2017

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in European Studies New Books in Food New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network January 29, 2019 Molly Taylor-Poleskey

Jodi Campbell is Professor of History at Texas Christian University. She has written extensively on Spanish drama, royal history and women’s history. Her first book was published by Ashgate in 2006 and is titled Monarchy, Political Culture and Drama in Seventeenth-Century Madrid: Theater of Negotiation. She also co-edited Women in... Read More

Nicholas Bauch, “Geography of Digestion: Biotechnology and the Kellogg Enterprise” (U California Press, 2017)

Nicholas Bauch
Geography of Digestion
Biotechnology and the Kellogg Enterprise
University of California Press, 2017

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Biography New Books in Food New Books in Geography New Books in History New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Science, Technology, and Society New Books Network January 11, 2019 Chad J. Valasek

While most people in the US are familiar with the ubiquitous Kellogg cereal brand, few know how it relates to US geography, science and technology around the turn of the 20th century. In A Geography of Digestion: Biotechnology and the Kellogg Enterprise (University of California Press, 2017), Nicholas Bauch explores... Read More

Margot Finn, “Discriminating Taste: How Class Anxiety Created the American Food Revolution” (Rutgers UP, 2017)

Margot Finn
Discriminating Taste
How Class Anxiety Created the American Food Revolution
Rutgers University Press, 2017

New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Food New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Popular Culture New Books in Sociology New Books Network December 21, 2018 Michael O. Johnston

You eat what you are and are what you eat, right? There is an increasing number of Americans who pay great attention to the food they eat, buy organic vegetables, drink fine wines, and seek out exotic cuisine. The affordability of food across the class spectrum have become more accessible.... Read More

Stephan J. Guyenet
The Hungry Brain
Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat
Flatiron Books, 2017

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Food New Books in Medicine New Books in Psychology New Books in Science & Technology New Books Network December 19, 2018 Diana Hill

In this this interview, cross-posted from the podcast Psychologists Off The Clock, Dr. Diana Hill talks with Dr. Stephan J. Guyenet, neurobiologist and obesity researcher, about the unconscious systems that lead to overeating and weight gain. Dr. Guyenet discusses why dietary guidelines alone are not enough to change our eating behavior.... Read More

Venus Bivar, “Organic Resistance: The Struggle over Industrial Farming in Postwar France” (UNC Press, 2018)

Venus Bivar
Organic Resistance
The Struggle over Industrial Farming in Postwar France
University of North Carolina Press, 2018

New Books in Environmental Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in Food New Books in French Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Science & Technology New Books Network October 16, 2018 David Fouser

In Organic Resistance: The Struggle over Industrial Farming in Postwar France (University of North Carolina Press, 2018), Venus Bivar documents the development of agriculture in post-1944 France. Through the Second World War, France’s agriculture was comparatively backward next to those of its neighbors and geopolitical rivals. The French government undertook... Read More