Food preferences and tastes are among the fundamentals affecting human existence; the sociocultural, physiological and neurological factors involved have theref

This richly illustrated book applies the discoveries of the new generation of food historians to the pleasures of dining and the culinary accomplishments of div

This book provides a fascinating examination of the relationship between consumption, the idea of the body and the formation of the self. In tracing these conne

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