eating customs

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).

Describes a variety of invasive species and how humans can consume them as food to both help the environment and solve the global hunger crisis. Discusses how to eat insects, nutria, carp, periwinkle snails, and a variety of weeds among other invasive species. Includes activities, recipes, color photographs, a glossary, and further resources.

A boy named Charlie dreams up inventive ways to get his fussy sister, Lola, to eat her vegetables and other foods she likes to refuse.