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PublisherBoyars Publishers, LTD., MARION
ISBN-101909248657
ISBN-139781909248656
eBay Product ID (ePID)21038403843
Product Key Features
Book TitleSeeds
Number of Pages400 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicEcosystems & Habitats / General, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Publication Year2020
IllustratorYes
GenreNature, Cooking, House & Home, Social Science
AuthorMark Mcwilliams
Book SeriesOxford Symposium Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height1 in
Item Weight23.6 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width7 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal641.64987
Table Of ContentForewordMark McWilliams 9Plenary PapersSvalbard Global Seed Bank: Noah's Ark for Seeds in the ArcticÅsmund Asdal 11Saving the Future - Conservation in Action: The Millennium Seed Bank of the Royal Botanic Gardens, KewElinor Breman 26Muriel Howorth and the Atomic Gardening Society: Writing Food FuturesMolly MacVeagh 36Symposium PapersReclaiming Diversity of TasteIsaura Andaluz 57Eating Life: Seed, Germ, and Dietary Philosophy in the German Lebensreform MovementVolker Bach 78The Naked Barley Thorebyg (Hordeum vulgare) in Traditional Farmhouse Ale Brewing in NorwayHans Olav Bråtå 89Seeds in the Story of the Garden of Eden and the Myth of the Mediterranean DietAdrian Bregazzi99A Matter of Life and Death -- From Grano dei Morti and Cuccìa to Pastiera: The Symbolism of Wheat Berries in Southern Italian Cookery And Its Ancient Greek (and Indo-European?) OriginsAnthony F. Buccini 110Seeds6Turning Native: The Sesame Seed and 'Japaneseness'Voltaire Cang 121"How Coffee Killed A Town: The Rise and Fall of Coffee in Lipa, Batangas in theNineteenth CenturyBel Castro 131From Peasant Food to Posh Ingredient: A History of Buckwheat in BrittanyMary Margaret Chappell 141What Is a 'Good' Seed?Renata Christen 148Seeding the Future - Curry, Sausages, and Tea in Hong Kong and MacauMukta Das 158Preparing Seeds for Palatability: Chicken Guts and Chefs' ToolsLen Fisher 169Fenugreek: Seed of a Forgotten History of North AfricaAnny Gaul 178A Land of Wheat: In Search of the Lost Grain of Israel / PalestineB.Z. Goldberg and Ronit Vered 188The Long and Simple History of the Dibble and Its CousinsPeter Hertzmann 198"The answers to our ancestors' prayers;" Seeding a Movement for Health and CultureElizabeth Hoover and Sean Sherman 212I Pomodori Puri: Fruits of Empowerment in Deledda's The Church of SolitudeEilis Kierans 223The Seed of Hope: Acorns from Famine Food to Delicacy in European HistoryAndrea Maraschi 232Sacralized Grains: A Study of the Popular Diffusion of Maize Culinary PreparationsBased on its Ritualistic Use in the AmericasSandra Melchior, Marcella Sulis, and Carolina Sulis 243Seeds7Bittersweet Coffee and The Seeds of Hope: European Immigrants' Memories ofVegetable Gardens in Early Twentieth-Century São Paulo, BrazilSandra Mian 253Illegal seeds - Nowadays Taste Doesn´t MatterKatharina Mojescik 260Growing and Eating God: Tracking the Mental Image of Wheat in TraditionalRomanian CommunitiesRaluca Parfentie 272American Approaches to Removing Seeds from FruitJeffrey Rubel 291Chocolate and Vanilla: Seeds of TasteKathryn E. Sampeck 300Seed Work and the Revival of a Famed Culinary Crop SystemDavid Shields 308Traditional Crops: The Case of Bambara GroundnutHanna Simonsen 318ZoochoryRay Sokolov 327Revisiting the Acorn Eaters: the case of the Arkadians in Greek antiquityCorey Straub 337Amaranth: Food of the Gods, or Seed of the DevilDavid C. Sutton 346The English Quest for Novelty: Kitchen Garden Seeds from Abroad from theSixteenth to the Early Eighteenth CenturiesMalcolm Thick 359Seed-Time: Sex and Sustainable Dining at the Fin de SiècleKate Hudson 371Seeds8"Throw away your gogo seed": The Centrality of Traditional Seed in KwaZulu-Natal,South AfricaJaci van Niekerk and Rachel Wynberg 379Mustard in the Talmudic LiteratureSusan Weingarten 388Karakilçik Bugdayi and Its Promises for a Better Food WorldZafar Yenal 398"
SynopsisHuman civilisations depend on seeds, so do plants and animals. Seeds shows how we are preserving our ecological heritage. The Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food have been awarded a Gourmand Award for excellence - 2020. The award is for excellence across the series, and congratulations are due to the editor, Mark McWilliams, and all the contributors. The Proceedings are published annually, and are a collection of papers from the previous years OxfordSymposium on Food. They are a mark of excellence in the food history world.
LC Classification NumberTX814.5.S44O94 2018
