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Cancer treatments can be as hard on the body as the disease itself. This guide focuses on foods best tolerated during -- and that can ease side effects of -- cancer treatment. It also offers advice for menu planning, mutritional analysis, and more --
Living in the city doesn't mean you can't pull off a great picnic.
Urban picnics are a hot foodie trend right now; from The Economist to Le Monde, food journalists and lovers the world around are jumping on the blanket. Like so many of us, they want to put their hectic city lives on hold and enjoy themselves--without having to head off into the…
Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking is a kitchen classic. Hailed by Time magazine as "a minor masterpiece" when it first appeared in 1984, On Food and Cooking is the bible to which food lovers and professional chefs worldwide turn for an understanding of where our foods come from…
Gody's Lady's Book was a popular magazine for women in nineteenth-century America. The recipes it published were submitted by women from the North and South. This collection of recipes "includes information on Union and Confederate army rations, cooking on both homefronts, and s…
This dissertation examines food practices as a cultural manifestation of Jewish nationalism within the Zionist movement and in the state of Israel from the First Aliya (immigration) in 1905 to the Six Day War in 1967. The Zionist movement and later the Israeli state tried to int…
Since the 1990s, Turkey has started to develop an extensive interest in its Ottoman past. The view of the Ottomans as "backward" and "pre-modern" that once held sway has given way to a view that grasps the Ottoman past as "open," "tolerant," and "cosmopolitan." Food is one of th…
While most people are aware of the extent to which the discovery of the Americas changed world history, few consider the impact of New World flora and fauna on the eating habits of the Old World. Even Italy, which held no colonies or influence across the Atlantic, was radically …
The research in this thesis examines cultural appropriation, one of the defining elements of contemporary discourse in an increasingly globalized world. Cultural appropriation constitutes the adoption by a dominant community of cultural habits, materials, or performances origina…
