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        Social Science / Agriculture & Food (see also POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy)

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        After Eating

        After Eating

        After Eating

        Metabolizing the Arts

        by Lindsay Kelley

        ISBN: 9780262545631

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 5, 2023

        An exploration of food, ingestion, and digestion in the emerging field of the metabolic arts.
        e-flux Food and Agriculture Reader

        e-flux Food and Agriculture Reader

        e-flux Food and Agriculture Reader

        Edited by Julieta Aranda, Kaye Cain-Nielsen, Anton Vidokle and Brian Kuan Wood

        ISBN: 9781915609038

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: August 8, 2023

        Maybe it's time to see how the sausage is made.
        Microbiopolitics of Milk

        Microbiopolitics of Milk

        Microbiopolitics of Milk

        Edited by Inland

        Foreword by David Prieto Serrano and Alejandro Alonso Díaz

        ISBN: 9783956796609

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: August 1, 2023

        Milk as a biocultural substance.
        The Anthropocene Cookbook

        The Anthropocene Cookbook

        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

        The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects

        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

        Salt Wars

        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

        Acquired Tastes

        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

        Food Routes

        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

        Politics of Food

        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

        The Meat Question

        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.
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