eating customs

Whether African immigrants began their journeys as slaves, as refugees, or by choice, find out how connecting food, family, and dining together has bridged the generations, and how those communities have had a lasting impact on their new homes.

"A journalist traces her 2009 immersion into the national food system to explore how working-class Americans can afford to eat as they should, describing how she worked as a farm laborer, Wal-Mart grocery clerk, and Applebee's expediter while living within the means of each job"--Provided by publisher.

See how food, family, and dining have helped cement the bonds between immigrants and their homelands, and how those traditions have had an impact on new places.

Viewing Chinese culture and food through family customs.

Explores the evolutionary gains for humans that resulted from cooking, and discusses how early ancestry adapted to use fire to cook raw foods, which altered the human digestive tract and enlarged the brain.

In verse, Sam-I-am tells of the virtues of green eggs and ham.

Explores the love dragons have for tacos, and the dangers of feeding them anything with spicy salsa.

"In just two generations, the world has undergone a massive shift from traditional, limited diets to more globalized ways of eating-- from bubble tea to quinoa, Soylent to meal kits. Paradoxically, our diets are getting healthier and less healthy at the same time. For some, there has never been a happier food era than today: a time of unusual herbs, farmers' markets, and internet recipe swaps. Yet modern food also kills-- diabetes and heart disease are on the rise everywhere on earth. This is a book about the good, the terrible, and the avocado toast [that] explor[es] . . . the hidden forces behind what we eat [and] . . . explains how this food revolution has transformed our bodies, our social lives, and the world we live in"--Provided by publisher.

Describes what children around the world eat for lunch, including children in Japan, Kenya, Afghanistan, the United States, Peru, Canada, and more.

A collection of photographs depicting twenty-five families from twenty-one different countries, and includes Chad, Equador, Greenland, Japan, Mongolia, and others, and also describes the cost of a week's worth of food, and other cultural information for each listed country. In support of the Common Core Learning Standards (CCLS).