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The First Scientific Defense Of A Vegetarian Diet, Ken Albala Dec 2016

The First Scientific Defense Of A Vegetarian Diet, Ken Albala

Ken Albala

No abstract provided.


What Does Barbecue Tell Us About Race?: Andrew Warnes, Savage Barbecue: Race, Culture, And The Invention Of America's First Food. Athens: University Of Georgia Press, 2008. 208 Pp., $19.95., Ken Albala Dec 2016

What Does Barbecue Tell Us About Race?: Andrew Warnes, Savage Barbecue: Race, Culture, And The Invention Of America's First Food. Athens: University Of Georgia Press, 2008. 208 Pp., $19.95., Ken Albala

Ken Albala

No abstract provided.


Wendy A. Woloson. Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, And Consumers In Nineteenth‐Century America, Ken Albala Dec 2016

Wendy A. Woloson. Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, And Consumers In Nineteenth‐Century America, Ken Albala

Ken Albala

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The Tomato Queen Of San Joaquin, Ken Albala Dec 2016

The Tomato Queen Of San Joaquin, Ken Albala

Ken Albala

The life of Tillie Lewis exemplifies key moments in American food history from the rise of the canning industry to wartime rations to the craze for diet food. Her biography was consciously manipulated and fashioned through the years to make it a quintessential rags-to-riches story. Nonetheless, her accomplishments stand out, marking her as a brilliantly successful woman in an industry dominated by men.


The Future Of Tableware And Cooking Vessels: Some Predictions And Practical Experiments, Ken Albala Dec 2016

The Future Of Tableware And Cooking Vessels: Some Predictions And Practical Experiments, Ken Albala

Ken Albala

No abstract provided.


The Call Of The Domesticated, Ken Albala Dec 2016

The Call Of The Domesticated, Ken Albala

Ken Albala

No abstract provided.


The Devil's Food Dictionary: A Pioneering Culinary Reference Work Consisting Entirely Of Lies. ,. Foy, Barry. . Illustrations By. Boesche, John. . :. Frogchart Press. ,. 2008. . Ix + 255 Pp. $17.95 (Paper)., Ken Albala Dec 2016

The Devil's Food Dictionary: A Pioneering Culinary Reference Work Consisting Entirely Of Lies. ,. Foy, Barry. . Illustrations By. Boesche, John. . :. Frogchart Press. ,. 2008. . Ix + 255 Pp. $17.95 (Paper)., Ken Albala

Ken Albala

No abstract provided.


The Apparition Of Fat In Western Nutritional Theory, Ken Albala Dec 2016

The Apparition Of Fat In Western Nutritional Theory, Ken Albala

Ken Albala

No abstract provided.


Sarah R. Graff And Enrique Rodriguez-Alegría, Eds. The Menial Art Of Cooking: Archaeological Studies Of Cooking And Food Preparation, Ken Albala Dec 2016

Sarah R. Graff And Enrique Rodriguez-Alegría, Eds. The Menial Art Of Cooking: Archaeological Studies Of Cooking And Food Preparation, Ken Albala

Ken Albala

No abstract provided.


Reviewed Work: Sweet Invention: A History Of Dessert By Michael Krondl, Ken Albala Dec 2016

Reviewed Work: Sweet Invention: A History Of Dessert By Michael Krondl, Ken Albala

Ken Albala

No abstract provided.


Review Of: Une Histoire Culinaire Du Moyen Âge By Bruno Laurioux, Ken Albala Dec 2016

Review Of: Une Histoire Culinaire Du Moyen Âge By Bruno Laurioux, Ken Albala

Ken Albala

No abstract provided.


Reviewed Work: Regional Cuisines Of Medieval Europe By Melitta Weiss-Adamson, Ed., Ken Albala Dec 2016

Reviewed Work: Regional Cuisines Of Medieval Europe By Melitta Weiss-Adamson, Ed., Ken Albala

Ken Albala

No abstract provided.


Reviewed Works: Pleyn Delit: Medieval Cookery For Modern Cooks. By Constance B. Heiatt, Brenda Hosington, Sharon Butler; Take A Thousand Eggs Or More. By Cindy Renfrow, Ken Albala Dec 2016

Reviewed Works: Pleyn Delit: Medieval Cookery For Modern Cooks. By Constance B. Heiatt, Brenda Hosington, Sharon Butler; Take A Thousand Eggs Or More. By Cindy Renfrow, Ken Albala

Ken Albala

No abstract provided.


Passeth The Cran’Brry Sauce: The Medieval Origins Of Thanksgiving, Ken Albala Dec 2016

Passeth The Cran’Brry Sauce: The Medieval Origins Of Thanksgiving, Ken Albala

Ken Albala

No abstract provided.


On Right Pleasure And Good Health: A Critical Edition And Translation Of De Honesta Voluptate Et Valetudine, Edited And Translated By Mary Ella Milham And Libellus De Arte Coquinaria: An Early Northern Cookery Book, Edited And Translated By Rudolph Grewe And Constance B. Heiatt, Ken Albala Dec 2016

On Right Pleasure And Good Health: A Critical Edition And Translation Of De Honesta Voluptate Et Valetudine, Edited And Translated By Mary Ella Milham And Libellus De Arte Coquinaria: An Early Northern Cookery Book, Edited And Translated By Rudolph Grewe And Constance B. Heiatt, Ken Albala

Ken Albala

No abstract provided.


Ovophilia In Renaissance Cuisine, Ken Albala Dec 2016

Ovophilia In Renaissance Cuisine, Ken Albala

Ken Albala

No abstract provided.


Hunting For Breakfast In Medieval And Early Modern Europe, Ken Albala Dec 2016

Hunting For Breakfast In Medieval And Early Modern Europe, Ken Albala

Ken Albala

No abstract provided.


Milk: Nutritious And Dangerous, Ken Albala Dec 2016

Milk: Nutritious And Dangerous, Ken Albala

Ken Albala

No abstract provided.


Martino Of Como And Stefania Barzini. The Art Of Cooking: The First Modern Cookery Book, Ken Albala Dec 2016

Martino Of Como And Stefania Barzini. The Art Of Cooking: The First Modern Cookery Book, Ken Albala

Ken Albala

No abstract provided.


Fish In Renaissance Dietary Theory, Ken Albala Dec 2016

Fish In Renaissance Dietary Theory, Ken Albala

Ken Albala

No abstract provided.


Bacterial Fermentation And The Missing Terroir Factor In Historic Cookery, Ken Albala Dec 2016

Bacterial Fermentation And The Missing Terroir Factor In Historic Cookery, Ken Albala

Ken Albala

No abstract provided.


Jacob Boehme And The Foundations Of A Vegetarian Food Ideology, Ken Albala Dec 2016

Jacob Boehme And The Foundations Of A Vegetarian Food Ideology, Ken Albala

Ken Albala

Focuses on Jacob Boehme, a mystic Paracelsian Hermetic theosopher, and his works on vegetarianism. Significance of the Garden of Eden in the vegetarian, non-violent tradition; Concept of the new man explained by Boehme in "The Three Principles"; Difference between Edenic food and earthly food.


Insensible Perspiration And Oily Vegetable Humor: An Eighteenth Century Controversy Over Vegetarianism, Ken Albala Dec 2016

Insensible Perspiration And Oily Vegetable Humor: An Eighteenth Century Controversy Over Vegetarianism, Ken Albala

Ken Albala

Quack diets are nothing new. Nor have they always been easily dismissed. In eighteenth-century Italy, a virulent controversy arose over a meatless wonder diet. This controversy would eventually play itself out in the field of nutritional theory, as dietary writers crambled to incorporate the latest scientific findings into their recommendations.


How To Milk An Almond, Stuff An Egg, And Armor A Turnip: A Thousand Years Of Recipes. By David Friedman And Elizabeth Cook., Ken Albala Dec 2016

How To Milk An Almond, Stuff An Egg, And Armor A Turnip: A Thousand Years Of Recipes. By David Friedman And Elizabeth Cook., Ken Albala

Ken Albala

No abstract provided.


Gastrabulary: A Future Terminology Of Eating, Ken Albala, Lisa Cooperman Dec 2016

Gastrabulary: A Future Terminology Of Eating, Ken Albala, Lisa Cooperman

Ken Albala

No abstract provided.


Food And The City In Europe Since 1800 By Peter J. Atkins, Peter Lummel, Derek J. Oddy, (Eds.), Ken Albala Dec 2016

Food And The City In Europe Since 1800 By Peter J. Atkins, Peter Lummel, Derek J. Oddy, (Eds.), Ken Albala

Ken Albala

No abstract provided.


Food And History, Volume 1, No. 1. . The European Institute Of Food History, Tours, France. :. Brepols. ,. 2003. . 274 Pp. € 50., Ken Albala Dec 2016

Food And History, Volume 1, No. 1. . The European Institute Of Food History, Tours, France. :. Brepols. ,. 2003. . 274 Pp. € 50., Ken Albala

Ken Albala

No abstract provided.


Concordance Of English Recipes: Thirteenth To Fifteenth Centuries. Heiatt, Constance B. And. Nutter, Terry. With. Holloway, Johnna H. :. Arizona Center For Medieval And Renaissance Studies. ,. 2006. Xvii + 135 Pp. $29.00 (Paper)., Ken Albala Dec 2016

Concordance Of English Recipes: Thirteenth To Fifteenth Centuries. Heiatt, Constance B. And. Nutter, Terry. With. Holloway, Johnna H. :. Arizona Center For Medieval And Renaissance Studies. ,. 2006. Xvii + 135 Pp. $29.00 (Paper)., Ken Albala

Ken Albala

No abstract provided.


Christina Normore. A Feast For The Eyes: Art, Performance And The Late Medieval Banquet, Ken Albala Dec 2016

Christina Normore. A Feast For The Eyes: Art, Performance And The Late Medieval Banquet, Ken Albala

Ken Albala

No abstract provided.


Back To The Kitchen: Escaping Processed Food, Ken Albala Dec 2016

Back To The Kitchen: Escaping Processed Food, Ken Albala

Ken Albala

To escape the adverse effects of consuming industrial processed food, society must learn fundamental cooking skills once more.