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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Chinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese laborers began to settle abroad, restaurants appeared in their wake. Yet Chinese has the curious distinction of being both one of the world's best-loved culinary traditions and one of the least understood. For more than a century, the overwhelming dominance of a simplified form of Cantonese cooking ensured that few foreigners experienced anything of its richness and sophistication--but...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Even though we know better, we often eat too much. Why does our behavior betray our own intentions to be lean and healthy? No one wants to overeat. And certainly no one wants to overeat for years, become overweight, and end up with a high risk of diabetes or heart disease--yet two-thirds of Americans do precisely that. The problem, argues obesity and neuroscience researcher Stephan J. Guyenet, is not necessarily a lack of willpower or an incorrect...
65) No kimchi for me
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Yoomi hates stinky spicy kimchi--until Grandma makes kimchi pancakes for her!"--
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From Michael Greger, M.D., FACLM, the author of the New York Times bestseller How Not to Die, comes a four-color, fully illustrated cookbook that shares the science of long-term weight-loss success. Dr. Michael Greger founded the viral website Nutritionfacts.org with the aim to educate the public about what healthy eating looks like and connect them with a community through food-related podcasts, videos, and blogs. Since then, Nutritionfacts.org...
69) It's disgusting-- and we ate it!: true food facts from around the world-- and throughout history!
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A collection of poems, facts, statistics, and stories about unusual foods and eating habits both contemporary and historical
70) Super size me
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock embarks on a journey to find out if fast food is making Americans fat. For 30 days he can't eat or drink anything that isn't on McDonald's menu; he must eat three square meals a day, he must eat everything on the menu at least once and supersize his meal if asked. He treks across the country interviewing a host of experts on fast food and a number of regular folk while downing McDonald's to try and find out why 37% of American...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"What if you couldn't afford nine dollar tomatoes? That was the question award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan couldn't escape as she watched the debate about America's meals unfold, one that urges us to pay food's true cost - which is to say, pay more. So in 2009 McMillan embarked on a groundbreaking undercover journey to see what it takes to eat well in America. For nearly a year, she worked, ate, and lived alongside the working poor to examine...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"We have all had that experience with the friend who has a new diet, one that he's following enthusiastically. Or maybe we've been that friend, adopting a new diet because we learned about it from another friend, or read about it online, in a magazine, or heard a compelling celebrity endorsement. Most such diets promise the same things: weight loss, better health, better sleep, mental functioning and a general improvement in mood and affect - in other...
Author
Series
Betty Bunny books volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
From her first bite, young Betty Bunny likes chocolate cake so much that she claims she will marry it one day, and she has trouble learning to wait patiently until she can have her next taste
Author
Publisher
Healing Arts Press
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
Presents a guide to understanding the relationship between eating and improving metabolism, and offers suggestions for connecting the body, and mind, spirit through mindful eating that sheds pounds, increases energy, and enhances.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: From the bestselling author of A History of the World in Six Glasses, this is a riveting history of humanity told through the foods we eat. Throughout history, food has done more than simply provide sustenance; it has acted as a tool of social transformation, political organization, geopolitical competition, industrial development, military conflict and economic expansion. And today, in the culmination of a process that has been...
78) Letting Ana go
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Required by her cross-country coach to keep a food diary, an insecure teen finds that writing helps organize her thoughts, especially about issues that she, her best friend, and her mother face related to weight and eating.
Series
California studies in food and culture volume 21
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
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