Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Section I: The Biology of Bitterness Perception -- Chapter 1: Biochemistry of Human Bitter Taste Receptors -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Bitter Taste Receptors: T2Rs -- 1.3 T2R Signal Transduction -- 1.4 Bitter Taste...

Introduction -- The cultural object : pizza -- The social world : Italian restaurants -- The receiver : the consumer -- The creator : the pizzaiolo -- Conclusion : towards new understandings of food glocalization

The book provides a thorough review of current food safety and sanitation information with practical applications of current research findings included. The book surveys and examines the prevailing research and applications and reviews specific operational issues such as power or water...

The food security of a nation is largely dependent on its ecological foundation. In India, competition for water, land, human, and financial resources, and the suitability of the existing institutional system in ensuring food security require the attention of both policy makers and planners....

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A New Bird -- Chapter I. Love That Chicken! -- Chapter II. An American Industry -- Chapter III. Anatomy of a Merger -- Chapter IV. The Right to Work -- 2. A New Worker -- Chapter V. Getting Here -- Chapter VI. Inside a Poultry...

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: The Elements of Our Complicated Food System: Food, Land, and Farmers -- 1. Utopian Dream: A Farm Bill Linking Agriculture to Health -- 2. Land for Food in the Twenty-First Century -- 3. The Social...

This book provides a roadmap for achieving sustainable agricultural advance and food security in an era of climate change and global economic melt-down. The contents include a description of the paradigm shift under the leadership of the author, from a green to an ever-green revolution necessary...

Food and drink supply chains are complex, continually changing systems, involving many participants. They present stakeholders across the food and drinks industries with considerable challenges. Delivering performance in food supply chains offers expert perspectives to help practitioners and...

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: I've Come to . . . Shop? -- THE HISTORY -- Chapter One: Suburbia, Environmentalism, and the Early Gurglings of the Food Movement -- Chapter Two: Reagan, Hunger, and the Rise of Food Banks -- THE REACTIONS -- Chapter Three: Farmers' Markets Bringing Food to the...