Food
What we eat. How we eat. What food says about us
Introduction
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Food is never only something to eat. It carries history, geography, custom, danger, humor, memory, and desire. These playful food books travel from bagels and desserts to insects, meat sauce, strange drinks, table manners, and the language people use around food. Together they offer an unusual anthropology of appetite.
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THE FOOD BOOKS
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A curious tour through the foods people make, share, fear, crave, argue about, and occasionally regret. Each book begins with something edible and follows it into culture, history, language, ingenuity, and laughter.
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THAT’S NOT A BAGELThe World’s Doughy Delights
A bagel is only the beginning. This lively journey explores the many breads people roll, twist, flatten, boil, bake, fill, and claim as their own. Along the way, dough reveals migration, tradition, ingenuity, appetite, and belonging. |
DESSERTS THAT CAN KILLSweet Risks from Around the World
Dessert looks innocent until somebody adds poison, fire, raw eggs, hidden pits, dangerous plants, or enough sugar to stop a charging elephant. This darkly playful tour explores sweet foods whose pleasures sometimes arrive with a warning. |
ANIMAL CRACKERSAnts, Grubs, Frogs, and Other Wild Snacks
People eat far more creatures than most supermarket shoppers ever encounter. From insects and frogs to unexpected delicacies, this book explores the animals people roast, fry, skewer, season, and serve around the world. |
USE YOUR HANDS!How the World Picks Up Food
Forks and spoons are not the only way to eat. Across the world, people scoop, pinch, wrap, tear, dip, and share food with their hands. This book celebrates the customs, skills, pleasures, and good manners found at the end of our fingers. |
BORNEO BOLOGNESEWhen Meat Sauce Goes Rogue
What happens when a familiar Italian sauce escapes the kitchen and wanders into the wider world? This comic food adventure mixes history, invention, travel, cultural confusion, and an unruly bowl of meat sauce that refuses to behave. |
THE WORLD’S CRAZY CONCOCTIONSWill This Really Quench My Thirst?
People will drink almost anything if it bubbles, burns, glows, ferments, cures an ailment, promises energy, or tastes interesting enough. This book surveys strange and imaginative drinks made from an astonishing range of ingredients. |
THE SOUR PUSS DICTIONARYFood Sayings That Will Make You Laugh
Food fills our mouths even when we are not eating. We spill the beans, go bananas, bring home the bacon, and land in a pickle. This illustrated dictionary gathers the funny, peculiar, and revealing food expressions people use every day. |
OUT TO LUNCHThe Places We Sneak Off to Eat
People have always found reasons to leave home and eat somewhere else. From roadside stops and picnic grounds to cafés, diners, food stalls, and secret favorite places, this book explores the pleasure of getting away, finding a meal, and sharing food beyond the usual table. |
