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This innovative and global best-seller helped establish food studies courses throughout the social sciences and humanities when it was first published in 1997.

The field of food studies has been growing rapidly over the last thirty years and has exploded since the turn of the millennium. Scholars from an array of disci

The single most influential culinary trend of our time is fast food. It has spawned an industry that has changed eating, the most fundamental of human activitie