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Archive for the ‘Food History’ Category

So those people at RenFaire were right?

Posted by: mindfulindividual on September 28, 2009

Food & “Farm” Update – Summer 2009

Posted by: mindfulindividual on September 19, 2009

MindfulCast #1 – Fermentation: The Final Frontier

Posted by: mindfulindividual on July 19, 2009

Urban Farming in San Francisco

Posted by: mindfulindividual on August 28, 2008

Health, Food and Human History: The All-American Banana?

Posted by: mindfulindividual on August 7, 2008

The State of Food in San Francisco

Posted by: mindfulindividual on August 7, 2008

Health, Food and Human History: Grains and Beans

Posted by: mindfulindividual on July 28, 2008

California and Water

Posted by: mindfulindividual on July 15, 2008

Video: Mark Bittman: What’s wrong with what we eat

Posted by: mindfulindividual on May 25, 2008

I’m officially a food geek..

Posted by: mindfulindividual on October 9, 2007

Meeting of the Culinary Historians of Northern California

Posted by: mindfulindividual on October 8, 2007

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something awesome!

Posted by: mindfulindividual on October 3, 2007

My GoodReads.com Shelf

Healing with Medicinal Plants of the West: Cultural and Scientific Basis for Their Use
author: Cecelia Garcia name: Aki average rating: 0.0 book published: 2005 rating: 0 read at: date added: 2009/10/08 shelves: good-foods, to-read review:
Cecelia Garcia
Food: The History of Taste (California Studies in Food and Culture)
author: Paul Freedman name: Aki average rating: 3.84 book published: 2007 rating: 4 read at: 2009/10/08 date added: 2009/10/08 shelves: good-foods review: A good book with many interesting perspectives. I certainly learned some very interesting things and now have some ancient cookbooks to hunt down. I was hoping for more insight into the how and why of tast […]
Paul Freedman
The Permaculture Book of Ferment & Human Nutrition
author: Bill Mollison name: Aki average rating: 4.23 book published: 1993 rating: 0 read at: date added: 2009/09/26 shelves: good-foods, to-read review:
Bill Mollison
Medieval Arab Cookery: Papers by Maxime Rodinson and Charles Perry with a Reprint of a Baghdad Cookery Book
author: Charles Perry name: Aki average rating: 5.00 book published: 1998 rating: 0 read at: date added: 2009/09/22 shelves: good-foods, to-read review:
Charles Perry
Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--and Revenge
author: Edward Kritzler name: Aki average rating: 3.44 book published: 2008 rating: 0 read at: date added: 2009/09/22 shelves: good-foods, to-read review:
Edward Kritzler
A Drizzle of Honey: The Life and Recipes of Spain's Secret Jews
author: David M. Gitlitz name: Aki average rating: 4.00 book published: 1999 rating: 0 read at: date added: 2009/09/22 shelves: good-foods, to-read review:
David M. Gitlitz
Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm
author: David M. Masumoto name: Aki average rating: 3.89 book published: 1996 rating: 5 read at: date added: 2009/09/21 shelves: good-foods review:
David M. Masumoto
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (California Studies in Food and Culture, 3)
author: Marion Nestle name: Aki average rating: 3.75 book published: 2002 rating: 4 read at: date added: 2009/09/21 shelves: good-foods review:
Marion Nestle
Food in the USA
author: C. Counihan name: Aki average rating: 3.71 book published: 2002 rating: 0 read at: date added: 2009/09/04 shelves: currently-reading, good-foods review:
C. Counihan
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
author: Novella Carpenter name: Aki average rating: 4.12 book published: 2009 rating: 5 read at: date added: 2009/09/04 shelves: good-foods review:
Novella Carpenter