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The Anthropocene Cookbook

Recipes and Opportunities for Future Catastrophes

by Zane Cerpina and Stahl Stenslie

ISBN: 9780262047401

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 18, 2022

More than sixty speculative art and design projects explore how art, food, and creative thinking can prepare us for future catastrophes.

The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects

Edited by Ted R. Schultz, Richard Gawne and Peter N. Peregrine

ISBN: 9780262543200

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 22, 2022

Contributors explore common elements in the evolutionary histories of both human and insect agriculture resulting from convergent evolution.

Salt Wars

The Battle Over the Biggest Killer in the American Diet

by Michael F. Jacobson

Foreword by Tom Frieden

ISBN: 9780262542821

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 14, 2021

How food industry lobbyists and a small group of scientists have successfully fought government efforts to reduce dangerous levels of sodium in our food.

Acquired Tastes

Stories about the Origins of Modern Food

Edited by Benjamin R. Cohen, Michael S. Kideckel and Anna Zeide

ISBN: 9780262542913

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 17, 2021

How modern food helped make modern society between 1870 and 1930: stories of power and food, from bananas and beer to bread and fake meat.

Food Routes

Growing Bananas in Iceland and Other Tales from the Logistics of Eating

by Robyn Metcalfe

ISBN: 9780262539524

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: December 8, 2020

Finding opportunities for innovation on the path between farmer and table.

Politics of Food

Edited by Dani Burrows and Aaron Cezar

ISBN: 9783956795169

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Pub Date: March 24, 2020

Artists, anthropologists, activists, and others consider the global politics and ethics of food production, distribution, and consumption.

The Meat Question

Animals, Humans, and the Deep History of Food

by Josh Berson

ISBN: 9780262042895

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 22, 2019

A provocative argument that eating meat is not what made humans human and that the future is not necessarily carnivorous.

Food

by Fabio Parasecoli

ISBN: 9780262537315

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 21, 2019

A consumer's guide to the food system, from local to global: our part as citizens in the interconnected networks, institutions, and organizations that enable our food choices.

Feeding the Other

Whiteness, Privilege, and Neoliberal Stigma in Food Pantries

by Rebecca T. de Souza

ISBN: 9780262536769

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 9, 2019

How food pantries stigmatize their clients through a discourse that emphasizes hard work, self help, and economic productivity rather than food justice and equity.

GMOs Decoded

A Skeptic's View of Genetically Modified Foods

by Sheldon Krimsky

Foreword by Marion Nestle

ISBN: 9780262039192

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 12, 2019

The debate over genetically modified organisms: health and safety concerns, environmental impact, and scientific opinions.

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