Related category: Food & Cooking
Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 9 books in this booklist
£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780861542185 | ISBN 10: 0861542185
In 2017, the number of people going hungry in the world increased, for the first time in a decade. Pesticide-resistant bugs lay waste to crops across the globe, from bananas to potatoes. Food production releases billions of tons of carbon into the wo ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781472138125 | ISBN 10: 1472138120
How did a simple commodity, once the prized monopoly of kings and princes, become an essential ingredient in the lives of millions, before mutating yet again into the cause of a global health epidemic? The story of sugar, and of mankind's de ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9788895604138 | ISBN 10: 889560413x
Everyone who is ever likely to be born on to this planet could be fed to the highest standards of nutrition and gastronomy — and this could be done without cruelty, or destroying our fellow creatures. By 2050 we will need to feed 9.5 billion people — ... more
View book details£15.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781848135185 | ISBN 10: 1848135181
World-wide, over a billion adults are overweight and 300 million are officially "obese", more than 3,000 people die every day on the world's roads and global warming and war threaten our survival as a species. The Energy Glut tells the story of energ ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780747596424 | ISBN 10: 0747596425
How the era of postwar superabundance is coming to and end and what awaits us – by the author of the best-selling The End of Oil. The emergence of large-scale food production gave us unprecedented abundance – but at a steep and ultimately unsusta ... more
View book details£19.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780745324395 | ISBN 10: 0745324398
Where does the food on your plate really come from? Andy Rees exposes how our food has been hijacked by the biotech industry - and who's paying the price... Is the food on our shelves free of genetically engineered ingredients? Although they may ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780007219940 | ISBN 10: 0007219946
What is it about the British and food? We just don't get it, do we? Welcome to the country where recipe books feature constantly in bestseller lists but where people spend more time watching celebrity chefs cooking on TV than doing any cooking ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780141006871 | ISBN 10: 0141006870
Do you really know what you're eating when you tuck into that juicy burger? Britain eats more fast food than any other country in Europe. It looks good, tastes good, and it's cheap. But the real cost never appears on the menu. Eric Schlosser's explo ... more
View book details£19.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9781856498654 | ISBN 10: 1856498654
Will free trade benefit transnational coporations or the millions who are currently malnourished? Will small farmers find new markets in the North? Or will they lose even their local markets to cheap, subsidized food from the North? Why should countr ... more
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