Food Studies & Nutrition
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 NEW! Take Back the TrayRevolutionizing Food in Hospitals, Schools, and Other Institutions |
Good food generally doesn’t arrive on a tray, but Chef Joshna Maharaj knows that institutional kitchens have the ability to produce good, nourishing food, because she’s been making it … | Joshna Maharaj | 258 | 2020 | View |
 The Color of FoodStories of Race, Resilience and Farming |
Imagine the typical American farmer. Many people visualize sun-roughened skin, faded overalls, and calloused hands-hands that are usually white. While there’s no doubt the growing trend of … | Natasha Bowens | 242 | 2015 | View |
 The Fair Trade HandbookBuilding a Better World, Together |
Framed within the common goal of advancing trade justice and South-North solidarity, The Fair Trade Handbook presents a broad interpretation of fair trade and a wide-ranging dialogue between … | Gavin Fridell; Sean McHugh; Zack Gross | 240 | 2021 | View |
 The Political Economy of Agrarian ExtractivismLessons from Bolivia |
Around the world, plantation economies are on the rise. Increasing concerns over food, energy and financial security, combined with a geopolitical restructuring of the global agro-food system, … | Ben M. McKay | 172 | 2020 | View |
 NEW! Tiny Engines of AbundanceA History of Peasant Productivity and Repression |
This book provides a historical and comparative perspective of peasant productivity using case studies portraying the extraordinary efficiency with which English cottagers, Jamaican ex-slaves, … | Jim Handy | 157 | 2022 | View |
 NEW! What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings |
Nearly every culture has a variation on the dumpling: histories, treatises, family legends, and recipes about the world’s favourite lump of carbs. If the … | John Lorinc; Karon Liu | 234 | 2022 | View |
 When Poverty MatteredThen and Now |
Founded in Toronto in 1968, the Praxis Corporation was a progressive research institute mandated to spark political discussion about a range of social issues, such as poverty, homelessness, … | Paul Weinberg | 211 | 2019 | View |
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From NEW! “Swept Away through Injustice” |
Chapter 1 introduces the premise of the book, which is to reexamine the idea of progress that we tie to the evolution of industrial agriculture over the last 200 years. Examination of this period … | Jim Handy | 8 | 2022 | $0.80 Add |
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From  A Crisis of QualityFrom: About Canada: Media |
- | Peter Steven | 11 | 2011 | $1.10 Add |
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From AcknowledgementsFrom: When Poverty Mattered |
- | Paul Weinberg | 1 | 2019 | $0.10 Add |
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From Brown Girl FarmingFrom: The Color of Food |
In the introduction, the author discusses her introduction to organic farming, and how the food and farm movement has excluded people of colour. | Natasha Bowens | 6 | 2015 | $0.60 Add |
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From Foreword |
Foreword by Cristóbal Kay, The Hague, 2019. | Ben M. McKay | 3 | 2020 | $0.30 Add |
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From  Forms of PovertyFrom: About Canada: Poverty |
- | Jim Silver | 12 | 2014 | $1.08 Add |
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From  Gravity SuspendedFrom: Changing Tides |
This chapter follows the author, Alejandro Frid’s personal experiences conducting dive surveys for rockfish—a genus of long-lived, marine fishes that are easy to overfish—as … | Alejandro Frid | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
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From  IntroductionFrom: Curry |
This chapter begins by discussing Ruthnum’s homeland of Mauritius while diving into the concept of curry as a cultural signifier for South Asian identities. This introduction is framed … | Naben Ruthnum | 7 | 2017 | $0.70 Add |
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From  IntroductionFrom: Farm the City |
The introduction indicates that this book is a guide for creating urban farms that produce significant amounts of food while employing people who would most benefit from full time, meaningful … | Michael Ableman | 3 | 2020 | $0.30 Add |
