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

College of the Pacific Faculty Articles

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.

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

College of the Pacific Faculty Articles

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

College of the Pacific Faculty Books and Book Chapters

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The Long-Term Effects Of Study Abroad Experiences On Career, Educational, And Travel Choices, Catherine A. Fagan

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Thousands of U.S. students travel to other countries each year to participate in study programs offered either by their home or the target country institutions. This study explores the effects that these study abroad experiences have on decisions that returning students make with regard to their future educational goals, career choices, and further foreign travel.

Using the alumni database of Cultural Experiences Abroad, a student travel organization, data were gathered from 185 primarily undergraduate students who spent from two weeks to one year as participants in a study abroad program. The students were from various geographic locations in the United …