Food Sociology

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    • The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
    • By: Eric Schlosser
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.1 out of 5 stars 2,046 ratings
    • To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has...

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    • The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge : A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution
    • By: Terence McKenna
    • Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.6 out of 5 stars 4,328 ratings
    • Terence McKenna hypothesizes that as the North African jungles receded, a branch of our arboreal primate ancestors left the forest canopy and began living in the open areas beyond....

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    • How the Food Giants Hooked Us
    • By: Michael Moss
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,418 ratings
    • From a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at The New York Times comes the explosive story of the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic....

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    • The Truth About Processed Food and How It Poisons People and the Planet
    • By: Dr Robert Lustig
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.8 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • It's not what you eat that's damaging your health; it's how that food is 'made'. The truth behind ultra-processed food that the food industry doesn't want you to know....

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    • The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs
    • By: Johann Hari
    • Narrated by: Johann Hari
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.8 out of 5 stars 340 ratings
    • The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the drugs upending weight loss as we knew it—from his personal experience on Ozempic to what these drugs mean for our society’s deeply dysfunctional relationship with food, weight, and our bodies....

    $20.25 or free with 30-day trial

    • My Family's Hope and the Untold History of the Disappearing American Farmer
    • By: Brian Reisinger
    • Narrated by: Brian Reisinger
    • Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.7 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • The hidden history of an economic and cultural catastrophe that is threatening our very food supply—the disappearance of the American farmer.

    $28.07 or free with 30-day trial

    • The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America
    • By: Priya Fielding-Singh PhD
    • Narrated by: Priya Fielding-Singh PhD, York Whitaker
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.3 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • Packed with lyrical storytelling and groundbreaking research, as well as Fielding-Singh’s personal experiences with food as a biracial, South Asian American woman, How the Other Half Eats illuminates exactly how inequality starts on the dinner plate....

    $25.19 or free with 30-day trial

    • Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
    • By: Rose George
    • Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.2 out of 5 stars 201 ratings
    • Ninety Percent of Everything reveals the workings and perils of an unseen world that holds the key to our economy, our environment, and our very civilization....

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    • Diabetic Food Book with Recipes to Reverse Diabetes
    • By: Sally Sason
    • Narrated by: Bryce Dolan
    • Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 5.0 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • This book includes a wealth of information and recipes to help you reclaim your enthusiasm for your cooking if you've recently been diagnosed with diabetes or if you've been living with diabetes for years....

    $19.95 or free with 30-day trial

    • The Place of Sugar in Modern History
    • By: Sidney W. Mintz
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.2 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • In this eye-opening study, Sidney W. Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life....

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    • By: Jonathan Safran Foer
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.4 out of 5 stars 1,323 ratings
    • Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian....

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    • An Integrative Medicine Guide to a Higher State of Well-Being
    • By: Dr. Marty Goldstein
    • Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5.0 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • The Spirit of Animal Healing is chock-full of the very latest integrative medical knowledge (which combines conventional therapies with complementary and alternative medicine)....

    $21.49 or free with 30-day trial

    • Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America
    • By: Virginia Sole-Smith
    • Narrated by: Julie McKay
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.1 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • An exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today's toxic food culture....

    $17.19 or free with 30-day trial

    • The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages
    • By: Annelise Orleck
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.3 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Tracing a new labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from across the globe, "We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now" is an urgent, illuminating look at globalization as seen through the eyes of workers-activists....

    $18.00 or free with 30-day trial

    • Essays on Hunger and Harm
    • By: Emmeline Clein
    • Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In Dead Weight, Emmeline Clein recounts her struggle with disordered eating alongside the stories of other women: historical figures, pop culture celebrities, and the girls she’s known and loved....

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    • The Dollars and Sense of Growing Food in America
    • By: Beth Hoffman
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.8 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Half of America's two million farms made less than $300 in 2019. Between rising land costs, ever-more expensive equipment, the growing uncertainty of the climate, and few options for health care, farming today is a risky business. For many, simply staying afloat is a constant struggle....

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    • Race, Class, and Food in the America South
    • By: Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr.
    • Narrated by: Beresford Bennett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5.0 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Getting Something to Eat in Jackson, a people-driven ethnography, portrays how race, particularly Blackness, is experienced and performed in different socioeconomic contexts in the contemporary urban American South....

    $22.35 or free with 30-day trial

    • The Cultural Politics of Food and Health
    • By: Charlotte Biltekoff
    • Narrated by: Caroline Miller
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.9 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Eating Right in America is a powerful critique of dietary reform in the United States....

    $19.95 or free with 30-day trial

    • By: Lynn Cassells, Sandra Baer
    • Narrated by: Lynn Cassells
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.9 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • As seen on the BBC’s This Farming Life. The inspirational story of Lynbreck Croft - a regenerative Scottish farm rooted in local food, community, and the dreams of two women. Lynn and Sandra left their friends, family, and jobs in England to travel north to Scotland....

    $19.95 or free with 30-day trial

    • A Fateful Fire and the Men Who Fought It
    • By: Kyle Dickman
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.7 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
    • On June 28, 2013, a single bolt of lightning sparked an inferno that devoured more than 8,000 acres in Northern Arizona....

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