A fascinating journey inside the lucrative international world of competitive eating traces the history of the IFOCE (International Federation of Competitive Eating), looks at top individual competitions, and profiles the men and women who make their living as gurgitators.
Introduction -- The fab four -- Tasty -- Follow your nose -- Food fight -- Eye candy -- The sound and the feeling -- Mind over munchies -- Are you full yet? -- Comfort food -- Buying indulgences -- Food is love
An eye-opening exploration of the psychology of eating in today?s unprecedented North American pantry of abundance, access, and excess. In Why You Eat What You Eat, acclaimed neuroscientist Rachel Herz examines the sensory, psychological, neuroscientific, and physiological facto…
Explores how psychology, neurology, and physiology influence food consumption and reveals techniques for improving one's relationship to food. "An eye-opening exploration pf the psychology of eating in today's unprecedented North American pantry of abundance, access, and excess…
By documenting, analysing and interpreting the transformations in the local diets of Asian peoples within the last hundred years, this volume pinpoints the consequences of the tension between homogenisation and cultural heterogenisation, which is so characteristic for today's gl…
Offers a guide to inventive cooking without recipes, but presents instructions on how to season classic dishes, how to reinvent classic dishes from a new perspective, and Einstein's secret of genius--combinatory play. "A paradigm-shifting guide to inventive cooking (without rec…
Described in the 2008 Saveur 100 as "At the top of our bedside reading pile since its inception in 2001," the award-winning Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture is a quarterly feast of truly exceptional writing on food. Designed both to entertain and to provoke, The Gas…
Sugar, pork, beer, corn, cider, scrapple, and hoppin' John all became staples in the diet of colonial America. The ways Americans cultivated and prepared food and the values they attributed to it played an important role in shaping the identity of the newborn nation. In A Revolu…
