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Magnesium

Theodore D. Mountokalakis

Theodore D. Mountokalakis

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The Cambridge World History of Food

© Cambridge University Press, 2000

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...It’s astonishing how much you may see, in a thicker fog than that, if you onlytake the trouble to look for it.Magnesium is one of the most plentiful elements in nature and the fourth most abundant metal...

‘Milk Is Life’: Nutritional Interventions and Child Welfare: The Italian Case and Post-War International Aid

Silvia Inaudi

Silvia Inaudi

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Proteins, Pathologies and Politics : Dietary Innovation and Disease from the Nineteenth Century

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...Several studies have shown the steady increase in the popularity of milk in the twentieth century as the ideal form of nourishment, notably in relation to the promotion of maternal and child health. In the interwar period, the spread...

The Mediterranean (Diets and Disease Prevention)

Marion Nestle

Marion Nestle

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The Cambridge World History of Food

© Cambridge University Press, 2000

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...The basic elements of healthful diets are well established (USDHHS 1988; National Research Council 1989; USDA/USDHHS 1995). They provide adequate amounts of energy and essential nutrients, reduce risks for diet-related chronic diseases...

TV Dinner

John F. Mariani

John Mariani began his career as a journalist at New York magazine in 1973. Since then, he has become one of America’s premier food writers. He is a columnist for Esquire and Bloomberg News, was nominated three times for the James Beard Journalism Award, and is the author of several highly regarded books on food, including Mariani’s Coast-to-Coast Dining Guide, America Eats Out (winner of the IACP Julia Child Cookbook Award for reference), and, most recently, How Italian Food Conquered the World. He is also the author of The Dictionary of Italian Food and Drink and editor of Italian Cuisine: Basic Cooking Techniques, the primary Italian cooking textbook of the Culinary Institute of America. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink

Bloomsbury USA, 2013

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...A meal of meat, poultry, or fish, together with vegetables and dessert, all precooked and packed on an aluminum plate, frozen, and sold in groceries and supermarkets. The meal has simply to be heated in the oven, and its self-contained...

Grasshopper Pie

John F. Mariani

John Mariani began his career as a journalist at New York magazine in 1973. Since then, he has become one of America’s premier food writers. He is a columnist for Esquire and Bloomberg News, was nominated three times for the James Beard Journalism Award, and is the author of several highly regarded books on food, including Mariani’s Coast-to-Coast Dining Guide, America Eats Out (winner of the IACP Julia Child Cookbook Award for reference), and, most recently, How Italian Food Conquered the World. He is also the author of The Dictionary of Italian Food and Drink and editor of Italian Cuisine: Basic Cooking Techniques, the primary Italian cooking textbook of the Culinary Institute of America. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink

Bloomsbury USA, 2013

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...A dessert pie made with green crème de menthe cordial, gelatin, and whipped cream. It derives its name from the green color of the cordial. The pie is popular in the South, where it is customarily served with a cookie crust, and probably...

Subject P: Embodying Home Economics

Lindsay Kelley

Lindsay Kelley is a practising artist and Lecturer at UNSW Australia Art & Design. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Bioart Kitchen : Art, Feminism and Technoscience

I.B. Tauris, 2016

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...The oatmeal was […] mixed […] with the 95 gm. of cornstarch and added together with 40 gm. of butter fat and 5 gm. of salt to 440 gm. of hot water. This was cooked directly over the flame until a thick mush was obtained which was spread...

Feeding the Revolution: Public Mess Halls and Coercive Commensality in Maoist China

James Watson

James Watson

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The Handbook of Food and Anthropology

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...Discussions Feeding the Revolution: Public Mess Halls and Coercive Commensality in of food in China usually focus on high cuisine and delicacies associated with regional preferences. This essay deals with low...

Promise of More. The Rhetoric of (Food) Consumption in a Society Searching for Itself: West Germany in the 1950s

Michael Wildt

Michael Wildt

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Food, Drink and Identity : Cooking, Eating and Drinking in Europe Since the Middle Ages

Berg, 2001

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...Looking at Germany in 1945, no-one would have expected that only a decade later its western part would become a prosperous country and a democratic state eager to rejoin the international community of civilised nations. Indeed...

From pizzaiola to phenom

Niki Kiviat

Niki Kiviat

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Food and Women in Italian Literature, Culture and Society : Eve’s Sinful Bite

Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

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...After the Second World War, as Italy transitioned from fascism to a democratic, constitutional republic, the role of women in Italian society became quite blurred. When men left home to fight, women replaced men at work, leaving their posts...

Escoffier, Bocuse et (surtout) les autres . . .: Towards a History of Cooks in France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Alain Drouard

Alain Drouard

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Eating Out in Europe : Picnics, Gourmet Dining and Snacks since the Late Eighteenth Century

Berg, 2003

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...Both historical and professional literature testify to the evidence that cooks are given little recognition in France. Pellaprat, 1942; Toussaint-Samat and Lair, 1989; Neirinck and Poulain, 1988...