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English
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"In Hooked, Moss explores the science of addiction and uncovers what the scientific and medical communities--as well as food manufacturers--already know, which is that food can, in some cases, be even more addictive than alcohol, cigarettes, or drugs. Our bodies are hard-wired for sweets, so food manufacturers have deployed fifty-six types of sugar to add to their products, creating in us the expectation that everything should be cloying; we've evolved...
2) Vegucated
Publisher
Kind Green Planet
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (77 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
New Society Publishers
Language
English
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Provides entrepreneurs with advice on all aspects of launching a home-based food business, covering product development and testing, marketing, structuring a business, managing regulations, and planning for the future. --Publisher's description.
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English
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"Robert Lustig's 90-minute YouTube video "Sugar: The Bitter Truth", has been viewed more than two million times. Now, in this much anticipated book, he documents the science and the politics that has led to the pandemic of chronic disease over the last 30 years. In the late 1970s when the government mandated we get the fat out of our food, the food industry responded by pouring more sugar in. The result has been a perfect storm, disastrously altering...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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"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...
Series
Woodhead Publishing in food science technology and nutrition volume no. 285
Publisher
Woodhead Publisher
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxiv, 347 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Computational modeling is an important tool for understanding and improving food processing and manufacturing.
It is used for many different purposes, including process design and process optimization.
However, modeling goes beyond the process and can include applications to understand and optimize food storage and the food supply chain, and to perform a life cycle analysis.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the various applications...
10) Kiss me, mi amor
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"It turns out that a fake relationship is the perfect recipe for a love that sizzles hotter than Santa Barbara's spiciest salsa-when it's between enemies. Enrique Montez, smooth-talking heir to the Taco King empire, is man enough to admit that he made a critical error when he underestimated Carolina Flores. The agricultural hotshot should have been an easy conquest-who would turn down the chance to partner with California's largest fast-food chain?...
Series
Publisher
Academic Press
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (653 pages)
Language
English
Description
The second edition of Emerging Technologies in Food Processing presents essential, authoritative, and complete literature and research data from the past ten years. It is a complete resource offering the latest technological innovations in food processing today, and includes vital information in research and development for the food processing industry. It covers the latest advances in non-thermal processing including high pressure, pulsed electric...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The "Minimalist" columnist outlines an eating plan that is comprised of environmentally responsible choices, in a guide that shares insight into the risks associated with livestock production.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 451 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In "Waste, " Stuart points out that farmers, manufacturers, supermarkets, and consumers in North America and Europe discard between 30 and 50 percent of their food supplies--enough to feed all the world's hungry three times over. Traveling from China to New York, from Pakistan to Japan, Stuart encounters grotesque examples of profligacy--but also inspiring innovations--to the global food crisis.
16) Food fix: how to save our health, our economy, our communities, and our planet-- one bite at a time
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Mark Hyman explains how our food and agriculture policies are corrupted by money and lobbies that drive our biggest global crises: the spread of obesity and food-related chronic disease, climate change, poverty, violence, educational achievement gaps, and more."--Publisher's website.
Series
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (79 min., 112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Anatomy of a relationship: A delirious dissection of the dilemmas of two intellectuals who can't quite make their sex life work; a confessional film about Moullet and his wife.
Genesis of a meal: Involves an economic comparison from production to consumption of a can of Senegalese tuna, a French omelet, an Ecuadorian banana, and a reel of 35mm film--which are all staples in Moullet's "diet."
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