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Books like Fat is a feminist issue
Loved Fat is a feminist issue by Susie Orbach? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from food & drink, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
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Kitchen Confidential
The wild, profane underbelly of professional kitchens; a memoir that made a chef a household name.
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The Omnivore's Dilemma
Where our food really comes from, traced through four meals; the book that changed how many people eat.
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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
Cook better by mastering four elements rather than memorising recipes; a modern teaching classic.
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Food in history
Surveys the evolution of man's diverse gastronomic habits, customs, and traditions against their cultural and historical background.
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Good to eat
Why are human food habits so diverse? Why do Americans recoil at the thought of dog meat? Jews and Moslems, pork? Hindus, beef? Why do Asians abhor milk? In Good to Eat, bestselling author Marvin Harr
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The foolish tortoise
A tortoise realizes the need for a shell after several scary encounters.
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The psychology of eating and drinking
Examines the range of human and animal behaviour associated with obtaining and consuming food and drink. The book looks at how organisms regulate the amount they consume and the roles of learning and
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Much Depends on Dinner
Food. We spend a good part of every day buying, preparing, eating, and savouring it. Only sleep and work take more time out of our lives. Margaret Visser uses the ingredients of an ordinary meal as a
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Eat Up, Gemma
Baby Gemma refuses to eat, throwing her breakfast on the floor and squashing her grapes, until her brother gets an inspired idea.
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The Passover Plot
Fat isn't the problem. Dieting is the problem. A society that rejects anyone whose body shape or size doesn't match an impossible ideal is the problem. A medical establishment that equates "thin" with