Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Handbooks
The Diner's Dictionary by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2012Did you know that "croissant" literally means "crescent" or that oranges are native to China?
Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2019Encyclopedia of Agriculture and Food Systems, Second Edition addresses important issues by examining topics of global agriculture and food systems that are key to understanding the challenges we face.
World Food by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2011This multicultural and interdisciplinary reference brings a fresh social and cultural perspective to the global history of food, foodstuffs, and cultural exchange from the age of discovery to contemporary times.
Additional Background Sources
- Food Cultures of the World
- The Handbook of Food and Anthropology
- Food and Drink in American History: A "Full Course" Encyclopedia
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2nd. ed)
- World Food: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Social Influence from Hunter-Gathers to the Age of Globalization
- World Food Habits: English-Language Resources for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition
- They Eat That? A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weird and Exotic Food from Around the World
- Routledge International Handbook of Food Studies
- The Oxford Companion to Food
- Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
- Ethnic American Food Today: A Cultural Encyclopedia
- From Famine to Fast Food:Nutrition, Diet, and Concepts of Health Around the World
- Street Food Around the World : An Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
- The Oxford Handbook of Food History
- Foodways and Folklore: A Handbook
Additional Spotlights
The Handbook of Food and Anthropology by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2016Twenty original essays by leading figures in the discipline examine traditional areas of research as well as cutting-edge areas of inquiry.
Beyond the kitchen table : Black women and global food systems by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2023Looking deeply into Black women's roles-economically, environmentally, and socially-in food and agriculture systems, the contributors address the ways Black women, both now and in the past, have used food as a part of community building and sustenance.
Gender and food : a critical look at the food system by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2019Synthesizes existing theoretical and empirical research on food, gender, and intersectionality to offer students and scholars a framework from which to understand how gender is central to the production, distribution, and consumption of food.
Indigenous food systems : concepts, cases, and conversations by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2020Through research and case studies, Indigenous and non-Indigenous food scholars and community practitioners explore the concepts, practices, and contemporary issues of various Indigenous food systems across Canada
Ways of Eating by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2023From the origins of agriculture to contemporary debates over culinary authenticity, Ways of Eating introduces readers to world food history and food anthropology.
Food Across Borders by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2017The stories told in Food Across Borders highlight the contiguity between the intimate decisions we make as individuals concerning what we eat and the social and geopolitical processes we enact to secure nourishment, territory, and belonging
Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2019Using cross-disciplinary perspectives from international scholars working in social, cultural and biological anthropology, ecology and environmental biology, this volume brings many new perspectives to the problems we face.
Routledge International Handbook of Food Studies by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2013Introduced by the editor and including original articles by over thirty leading food scholars from around the world, the Routledge International Handbook of Food Studies offers students, scholars and all those interested in food-related research.
