Examines current understandings of human population histories, adaptations, dietary changes, and health variations within the geographical context of ancient east Asia.
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Using biodistance analysis in the context of Spanish Florida, explores how a variety of inferences can be made about past populations and community patterns.
Using biodistance analysis in the context of Spanish Florida, explores how a variety of inferences can be made about past populations and community patterns.
Using biodistance analysis in the context of Spanish Florida, this book explores how a variety of inferences can be made about past populations and community patterns.
Presents a history of American food in one hundred culinary staples, from Native American maize traditions to the contemporary cuisines of sushi and salsa. "Did you know that the first graham crackers were designed to reduce sexual desire? Or that Americans have tried fad diets …
Ancient China / K.C. Chang -- Han, Ying-shih Yü -- T'ang / Edward H. Schafer -- Sung / Michael Freeman -- Yüan and Ming / Frederick W. Mote -- Ch'ing / Jonathan Spece -- Modern China : north / Vera Y.N. Hsu and Francis L.K. Hsu -- Modern China : South / E.N. Anderson, Jr. and Ma…
Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Nutrition and Immunity in native America: A Historical and Biological Controversy; Chapter 1: Out of Eden: Agriculture and the Ambiguity of Human Health from the Paleolithic Era to the Medieval; Black Death; Chapter 2: Native Americ…
Decolonizing the Diet challenges the common claim that native American communities were decimated after 1492 because they lived in virgin soils that were biologically distinct from those in the Old World. Comparing the European transition from Paleolithic hunting and gathering w…
Decolonizing the Diet challenges the common claim that native American communities were decimated after 1492 because they lived in virgin soils that were biologically distinct from those in the Old World. Comparing the European transition from Paleolithic hunting and gathering w…
Cheney explores the foodways of Mormon pioneers from their trek west through the arrival of the railroad and reveals new perspectives on the fascinating Mormon settlement era.
As any cook knows, every meal, and every diet, has a story--whether it relates to presidents and first ladies or to the poorest of urban immigrants. Cultural historian Haber has spent years excavating stories of the ways in which meals cooked and served by women have shaped Amer…
As any cook knows, every meal, and every diet, has a story--whether it relates to presidents and first ladies or to the poorest of urban immigrants. Cultural historian Haber has spent years excavating stories of the ways in which meals cooked and served by women have shaped Amer…
"In this magisterial study, Chris Otter traces Britain's transition to a diet rich in animal proteins and refined carbohydrates like wheat and sugar, a diet that required more acreage than that of Britain itself and that, if followed everywhere, would soon deplete the planet's r…
"This is the story of man's enduring curiosity about the way that food sustains life, and of our untiring struggle to find the vital ingredients of a healthy diet." "It is a story of heroes and villains, of scientists who risked their lives in self-experimentation, and of quacks…
