Nicola Graimes A fully illustrated guide to the essential ingredients for good health, with facts about the powers of health-giving foods and their healing uses, as well as 100 appetizing...

Judith Wills Discusses a balanced diet, food as medicine, the nutritional needs of children and pregnant women, and weight control while listing the nutritional values of common foods April 2,...

John Blofeld Drawing on Chinese legend, anecdotes, and poetry, in addition to his travels in China, the author presents a history of tea as well as instructions for the purchase,...

John Cooper Eat and Be Satisfied is the first comprehensive and critical history of Jewish food from biblical times until the present. John Cooper explores the traditional foods―the everyday diets...

Raymond Sokolov Examining how the "discovery" of the Americas set in motion a transformation of food cultures around the world, this look at the five-hundred-year revolution in food history explains...

Shmuly Yanklowitz (Editor) Since the turn of the millennium, rapid advances in technology, globalized markets, and atomized politics instigated in the American and Israeli Jewish communities questions about the morals of...

Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus This book is about what makes food Jewish, or better, who and how one makes food Jewish. Making food Jewish is to negotiate between the local, regional, and...

Ralph S Hattox Drawing on the accounts of early European travelers, original Arabic sources on jurisprudence and etiquette, and treatises on coffee from the period, the author recounts the colorful...

David C Kraemer This book explores the history of Jewish eating and Jewish identity, from the Bible to the present. The lessons of this book rest squarely on the much-quoted...

Yael Raviv When people discuss food in Israel, their debates ask politically charged Who has the right to falafel? Whose hummus is better? But Yael Raviv’s Falafel Nation moves beyond...

Wolfgang Schivelbusch From the extravagant use of pepper in the Middle Ages to the Protestant bourgeoisie's love of coffee to the reason why fashionable Europeans stopped sniffing tobacco and starting...

Leonard J Greenspoon (Editor), Ronald A Simkins (Editor), Gerald Shapiro (Editor) Food is not simply a popularly imagined and well-known manifestation of Jewish culture. For Jews, food has been a...