The opening chapter introduces the principles of functional foods and explores industry and consumer roles in this evolving market. Subsequent chapters focus on the most significant product categories, reviewing ingredient sources, classification, chemical and physical propertie…
The Oxford Book of Food Plants is a beautifully illustrated compendium of facts about the plants we grow in our gardens and use in our cooking. Gorgeous botanical illustrations are accompanied by accessible yet authoritative descriptions of each plant, along with fascinating his…
This volume brings together fresh insights from top agricultural economists in the areas of consumer attitudes, environmental impacts, policy and regulation, trade, investment, food security, and development, in an attempt to provide a new perspective on the most pressing policy…
There is not enough water globally for all the things humans need and want water to do for us. Water supply bubbles are bursting in China, the Middle East and India with potentially serious implications for the global economy and for political stability. Even the United States i…
How did an animal product that spoils easily, carries disease, and causes digestive trouble for many of its consumers become a near-universal symbol of modern nutrition? In the first cultural history of milk, historian Deborah Valenze traces the rituals and beliefs that have gov…
Fire, water, air, earth--our most trusted food expert recounts the story of his culinary education In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four classical elements--fire, water, air, an…
This book offers a critical analysis of how the West created the global food crisis. The hike in global food prices has pushed hundreds of millions more people into poverty, and sparked riots and protests in the Middle East, Africa and the Americas. Walden Bello, the leading wri…
Methods in microbiology: Techniques for the study of mycorrhiza
by Williams, Peter, Kaufmann, Stefan H. E., Sansonetti, Philippe, Grinsted, J., Bennett, P. M., Ribbons, D. W., Grigorova, R., Read, D. J., Varma, A. K., Brown, Alistair J. P., Tuite, Mick, Kabelitz, Dieter, Craig, Alister G., Hoheisel, Jörg D., Smith, Margaret C. M., Sockett, R. Elizabeth, Paul, John H., Zychlinsky, Arturo, Savidge, Tor, Pothoulakis, Charalabos, Rainey, Fred A., Oren, Aharon, Stansfield, Ian, Stark, Michael J. R., Norris, John Robert, Booth, C., Bergan, T., Gottschalk, Gerhard, Colwell, Rita R., Dorrell, Nick, Ketley, Julian M., Mayer, Frank, Salmond, George P. C., Wren, Brendan
Methods in microbiology: Immunology of infection
by Williams, Peter, Kaufmann, Stefan H. E., Sansonetti, Philippe, Grinsted, J., Bennett, P. M., Ribbons, D. W., Grigorova, R., Read, D. J., Varma, A. K., Brown, Alistair J. P., Tuite, Mick, Kabelitz, Dieter, Craig, Alister G., Hoheisel, Jörg D., Smith, Margaret C. M., Sockett, R. Elizabeth, Paul, John H., Zychlinsky, Arturo, Savidge, Tor, Pothoulakis, Charalabos, Rainey, Fred A., Oren, Aharon, Stansfield, Ian, Stark, Michael J. R., Norris, John Robert, Booth, C., Bergan, T., Gottschalk, Gerhard, Colwell, Rita R., Dorrell, Nick, Ketley, Julian M., Mayer, Frank, Salmond, George P. C., Wren, Brendan
Methods in microbiology
by Williams, Peter, Kaufmann, Stefan H. E., Sansonetti, Philippe, Grinsted, J., Bennett, P. M., Ribbons, D. W., Grigorova, R., Read, D. J., Varma, A. K., Brown, Alistair J. P., Tuite, Mick, Kabelitz, Dieter, Craig, Alister G., Hoheisel, Jörg D., Smith, Margaret C. M., Sockett, R. Elizabeth, Paul, John H., Zychlinsky, Arturo, Savidge, Tor, Pothoulakis, Charalabos, Rainey, Fred A., Oren, Aharon, Stansfield, Ian, Stark, Michael J. R., Norris, John Robert, Booth, C., Bergan, T., Gottschalk, Gerhard, Colwell, Rita R., Dorrell, Nick, Ketley, Julian M., Mayer, Frank, Salmond, George P. C., Wren, Brendan
Methods in microbiology
by Williams, Peter, Kaufmann, Stefan H. E., Sansonetti, Philippe, Grinsted, J., Bennett, P. M., Ribbons, D. W., Grigorova, R., Read, D. J., Varma, A. K., Brown, Alistair J. P., Tuite, Mick, Kabelitz, Dieter, Craig, Alister G., Hoheisel, Jörg D., Smith, Margaret C. M., Sockett, R. Elizabeth, Paul, John H., Zychlinsky, Arturo, Savidge, Tor, Pothoulakis, Charalabos, Rainey, Fred A., Oren, Aharon, Stansfield, Ian, Stark, Michael J. R., Norris, John Robert, Booth, C., Bergan, T., Gottschalk, Gerhard, Colwell, Rita R., Dorrell, Nick, Ketley, Julian M., Mayer, Frank, Salmond, George P. C., Wren, Brendan
Methods in microbiology
by Williams, Peter, Kaufmann, Stefan H. E., Sansonetti, Philippe, Grinsted, J., Bennett, P. M., Ribbons, D. W., Grigorova, R., Read, D. J., Varma, A. K., Brown, Alistair J. P., Tuite, Mick, Kabelitz, Dieter, Craig, Alister G., Hoheisel, Jörg D., Smith, Margaret C. M., Sockett, R. Elizabeth, Paul, John H., Zychlinsky, Arturo, Savidge, Tor, Pothoulakis, Charalabos, Rainey, Fred A., Oren, Aharon, Stansfield, Ian, Stark, Michael J. R., Norris, John Robert, Booth, C., Bergan, T., Gottschalk, Gerhard, Colwell, Rita R., Dorrell, Nick, Ketley, Julian M., Mayer, Frank, Salmond, George P. C., Wren, Brendan
This is the first comprehensive analysis of the European Union law of food regulation. It details the way in which EU law impacts upon the production and sale of food throughout the Union. It examines the legal protection accorded to the free movement of food within the EU, disc…
Food technology
by Inglis, Janet, Plews, Sue, Chapman, Eileen
fromCollins real-world technology
Faced with a global threat to food security, it is perfectly possible that society will respond, not by a dystopian disintegration, but rather by reasserting co-operative traditions. This book, by a leading expert in urban agriculture, offers a genuine solution to today's global…
