A renowned anthropologist explores the history and meaning of eating in America. Addressing issues ranging from the global phenomenon of Coca-Cola to the diets of American slaves, Sidney Mintz shows how our choices about food are shaped by a vast and increasingly complex global economy. He demonstrates that our food choices have enormous and often surprising significance.

如果讲“吃”，中国人的烹饪技术是世界一流的，但对于“吃”的意义的了解则知之甚少。而通过这本书的出版，能过使人们透过“吃”这种饮食行为，来更多地了解“吃”的文化与历史内涵。 这是一本很有品味的关于“吃”的学术专著。作者以人类学学者的视角对人类饮食进行多维思考，透过饮食行为，详谈文化与历史，这在大陆的出版物中尚属首例。不仅如此，书中所提供的知识点更让人耳目一新。看似简单且平凡的 “吃”却是这样的不平凡，它的发展历程竟有这许多的鲜活内容。这本书的内容不仅使人们重新认识了“吃”，更使人明了“吃”的意义。从而加深对“吃”与文化历史的结合有了更为清楚的认同。 开阔的思路、历史的深度与对未来的前瞻，对起步不久的中国饮食文化研究具有很好的启迪和推动作用。作为一部学术著作，此书的行文区生动、形象、深入浅出，有一定的可读性和科普意义，无论是平头百姓还是政府官...(展开全部)

What is the place of quality in contemporary capitalism? How is a product as ordinary as a bag of tea valued for its quality? In her innovative study, Sarah Besky addresses these questions by going inside an Indian auction house where experts taste and value mass-market black tea, one of the world’s most recognized commodities. Pairing rich historical data with ethnographic res...(展开全部)

Do we rely on different senses now than the ones we relied on in the past? How have our senses affected history? How have the senses themselves changed? What role have the senses played in the ways we discriminate? Exploring illuminating examples from antiquity to the twenty-first century, this lively, concise introduction to the essential, emerging field of sensory history pre...(展开全部)

作者:(美)加里·保罗·纳卜汉 译者:秋凉 加里·保罗·纳卜汉是一位享有国际声誉的自然作家，长期致力于保护生物多样性与社会文化多样性。包括《纽约时报》、《时代周刊》在内的许多著名杂志都评价他为本地化饮食运动的先驱，并认为他在保护社区文化与食物多样性方面做出了创造性的贡献。作为亚利桑那大学西南中心凯洛格讲座教授，纳卜汉长期在美国与墨西哥边境从事建立可持续食物生态系统的研究。他也是最早提出通过饮食治疗来控制糖尿病的学者。纳卜汉同时拥有一个小型农场，用于实践自己关于可持续食物生态系统的理论。纳卜汉著述颇丰，多部作品被翻译成阿拉伯语、西班牙语、意大利语、法语、韩语、日语等多国文字在世界范围内传播，并获得了麦克阿瑟天才奖、兰南文学奖等多项大奖。秋凉，本名季星，毕业于上海交通大学医学院，现任上海交通大学医学院附属新华医院产前诊断实验室主任，上海市儿科医学研究所细...(展开全部)

Review “Here at last is a comprehensive, thoroughly absorbing reader on contemporary culinary tastes and techniques. No student of food, globalization, or political economy can afford to overlook this valuable collection.” Stanley Brandes, University of California, Berkeley “A fascinating collection of essays that ranges from everyday food consumption to the global politics of ...(展开全部)

This completely updated second edition of the best-selling beer resource features the most current information on beer styles, flavor profiles, sensory evaluation guidelines, craft beer trends, food and beer pairings, and draft beer systems. You’ll learn to identify the scents, colors, flavors, mouth-feel, and vocabulary of the major beer styles — including ales, lagers, weissb...(展开全部)

Beer may be the common beverage of the people, but it is far from simple. With 10,000 years of history, more than 900 identified flavours, dozens of styles, and thousands of breweries around the world, beer is as complex as its grape-based neighbors in the liquor stores. It is an artistic creation, brewed from dozens of possible ingredients and processed in hundreds of differen...(展开全部)

At a summer tea party in Cambridge, England, a lady states that tea poured into milk tastes differently than that of milk poured into tea. Her notion is shouted down by the scientific minds of the group. But one guest, by the name Ronald Aylmer Fisher, proposes to scientifically test the lady's hypothesis. There was no better person to conduct such a test. For Fisher had brough...(展开全部)

Is there a moment in history when a work receives its ideal interpretation? Or is negotiation always required to preserve the past and accommodate the present? The freedom of interpretation, Charles Rosen suggests in these sparkling explorations of music and literature, exists in a delicate balance with fidelity to the identity of the original work. Rosen cautions us to avoid d...(展开全部)