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Publisher
Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
The entertaining story of British cuisine and the hidden role it plays in our political, social and cultural lives. Avocado or beans on toast? Gin or claret? Nut roast or game pie? Milk in first or milk in last? And do you have tea, dinner or supper in the evening? In this fascinating social history of food in Britain, Pen Vogler examines the origins of our eating habits and reveals how they are loaded with centuries of class prejudice. Covering such...
Author
Publisher
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Instead of promising easy answers to eliminating picky eating or weight loss, this audio approaches controversial eating and drinking issues from a more useful perspective-explaining the facts to promote understanding of our bodies. The only audiobook to provide an educated listener with a broad, scientific understanding of these topics, The Psychology of Eating and Drinking explores basic eating and drinking processes, such as hunger and taste, as...
Author
Publisher
Michael Joseph
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Peppered with his hand drawn sketches and moments from his TV career throughout, this is a heartfelt and fascinating insight into Matt's life outside of our TV screens _______ Matt Baker is at his happiest on the farm. Away from the bright lights of hosting our favourite television programmes, Countryfile, The One Show, Blue Peter and many more, he is often in the company of his family, dogs, array of sheep, Mediterranean miniature donkeys and a whole...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Neither an advocate nor a critic of cultured meat, Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft spent five years researching the phenomenon. In Meat Planet, he reveals how debates about lab-grown meat reach beyond debates about food, examining the links between appetite, growth, and capitalism. Could satiating the growing appetite for meat actually lead to our undoing? Are we simply using one technology to undo the damage caused by another? Like all problems in our food...
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Language
English
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Description
A Telegraph, Financial Times, New Statesman, Telegraph and Observer Book of the Year 2020 The new bestseller from the author of The Shepherd's Life As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in the Lake District hills was part of an ancient agricultural landscape: a patchwork of crops and meadows, of pastures grazed with livestock, and hedgerows teeming with wildlife. And yet, by the time James...
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Climate crisis is the single biggest threat to human survival. And it is happening right now. We all understand that time is running out - but do we truly believe it? And, caught between the seemingly unimaginable and the apparently unthinkable, how can we take the first step towards action, to arrest our race to extinction? We can begin with our knife and fork. The link between farming animals and the climate crisis is barely discussed, because giving...
Author
Publisher
Elliott & Thompson
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
'I can't imagine reading a better book this year? Daily Mirror Tim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation?s choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn?t changed. But the world has. In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in a new age of great-power rivalry: Australia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UK, Greece, Turkey,...
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