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Food culture

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Palates of Pleasure: Food, Memories and Culture
This book explores how our habitual practices of cooking and eating uphold diverse forms of social, cultural, political, gendered, racialised, communal and geopolitical experiences of place and space. 
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In Search of the Perfect Peach
CEO of the premium fruit and vegetable wholesaler, Natoora, Franco Fubini, argues flavour can lead us to a better food future. By looking to flavour, he claims we can unpick the industrialisation of our food production, restore nutrition and seasonal diversity to our plates and the craft of growing back to our landscapes.
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A feast of folklore: The bizarre stories behind British food
Folklorist Ben Gazur guides you through the dark alleys of British history to uncover how our food habits have been passed down through generations of folklore. Gazur investigates the origins of famous food superstitions as well as much more bizarre and lesser-known tales. 
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Knead to Know: A History of Baking
Food historian and chef Neil Buttery explores the creation, evolution and cultural importance of some of our most beloved baked foods. It charts innovations, happy accidents and some of the more bizarre baked foods created.
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Milk Into Cheese
David Asher dives into all things cheese. From the cultural, agricultural practices, biological evolution of cheese and the transformation of milk into cheese. Asher pulls from his experience as a natural cheesemaker and educator to provide both a history of cheesemaking and inspiration for large and small cheesemakers to make their own natural cheeses. 
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Bite by Bite
Poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil delves into the world of food in this collection of short essays that explore the intersection of food and nature; evoking memories through the tastes and smells of food.
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Podcast episode
Is cultivated "meat" unnatural? Is meat today natural?
Would you eat meat grown from animal cells in a lab?
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Podcast episode
Does CRISPR make our food unnatural?
If gene-edited foods became common on your plate, that would be a sign of... progress, concern, something else?
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Podcast episode
What's a natural diet? (with Richard Tellström)
How does culture, politics and economics shape what we eat today?
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