Food and global history / Raymond Grew --
Circles of growing and eating : the political ecology of food and agriculture / Harriet Friedmann --
The impact of new world crops on the diet and economy of China and India, 1600-1900 / Sucheta Mazumdar --
All the world's a restaurant : on the global gastronomics of tourism and travel / Rebecca L. Spang --
On "cabbages and kings" : the politics of Jewish identity in post-colonial French society and cuisine / Joëlle Bahloul --
Food policies, nutrition policies, and their influence on processes of change : European examples / Elisabet Helsing --
Food policy research in a global context : the West African Sahel / Della McMillan, Thomas Reardon --
Childhood nutrition in developing countries and its policy consequences / Noel W. Solomons --
Food system globalization, eating transformations. and nutrition transitions / Jeffrey Sobal --
Fat and sugar in the global diet : dietary diversity in the nutrition transition / Adam Drewnowski --
The 'mad cow' crisis : a global perspective / Claude Fischler --
The family meal and its significance in global times / Alex McIntosh --
We eat each other's food to nourish our body : the global and the local as mutually constituent forces / Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney --
Food and the counterculture : a story of bread and politics / Warren Belasco.

Fifteen specialists currently working in Canada, England, France, Guatemala, Norway, and the United States apply their expert knowledge of food and food consumption in a new context - global history. They build on the latest research, much of it their own, to reflect on the connections across space and time in what people eat and also to identify major, global patterns of change over time and in this global era."--Jacket