What shall we have for dinner? Should we choose the organic apple or the conventional? If organic, local or imported? Wild fish or farmed? Low-carb or low-cal? We can eat what nature has to offer, but deciding what we should eat stirs anxiety. This work traces the origin of what is consumed and the implications of it for us and our planet.

Discovering that cornbread is something that Americans hold dear, this work explains the rivalry between Southern and Northern cornbread. It includes recipes such as Truman Capote's Alabama Cornbread, Durgin Park Boston Cornbread, Chipotle Cornbread, Makki Ki Roti (or Indian Cornbread), Blueberry Corn Muffins with Lemon, and more.

The history, legends and cookery of popcorn in America. The book tests legends against agricultural, archaeological, culinary and social findings and gauges the reasons for its unflagging popularity. The account is concluded with more than 160 historical recipes for popcorn cookery.

Reissued and repackaged, the bestselling The Food Pharmacy is an essential guide to the healing properties of the food we eat.

Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941) is rightly regarded as one of the founders of modern anthropology. This volume is the author's own abridgement of his great work, and was first published in 1922. It offers the thesis that man progresses from magic through religious belief to scientific thought.

This work abandons the conventional distinctions between history and science. Diamond focuses on what ancient people were endowed with in the way of land, animals and plants, and on the confrontations between less and more advanced people to see how this led to today's inequalities.