Hungry Books

Hungry Books is presented by: Rocio Carvajal food anthropologist, culture and gastronomy educator. Episode 4 Italian is one of the world’s most popular cuisines, but how did it all start? What makes it so delicious? And how it became a global comfort food? This book is filled with fascinating and unexpected revelations, like the fact that many recipes became the best form of political propaganda,...

Presented by: Rocio Carvajal Food anthropologist, culture & gastronomy educator. Episode 12 This hybrid episode brings together of Hungry Books and Pass the Chipotle Podcast and I’m joined by Dr Deborah Toner editor of "Alcohol in the Age of Industry, Empire, and War," a ground-breaking volume that explores the intricate connections between alcohol and society from 1850 to 1950.  Thr...

Hungry Books is presented by: Rocio Carvajal food anthropologist, culture and gastronomy educator. Episode 11 Welcome to season 2! This book is so much more than a commodity's biography, potatoes are an entry point to explore the history of food policies, the relationships between land, power, botany, science, health, economy and the consequences of colonialism. Find out why our modern attitud...

Hungry Books is presented by: Rocio Carvajal food anthropologist, culture and gastronomy educator. Episode 10 Season 1 of Hungry Books Podcast comes to an end with a book that the brings a refreshingly innovative approach to food studies. Tom Standage looks at how food has lead to societal organisation, the creation of geo-political regions, transformation of the landscape, technological revolutio...

Hungry Books is presented by: Rocio Carvajal food anthropologist, culture and gastronomy educator. Episode 9 Throughout history and across cultures alcohol has been our faithful companion. We have bestowed upon it meanings and functions in our lives and cultures, and wether we consume it or not we are not indifferent to its existence and the power it has in our societies. A Short History of Drunke...

Hungry Books is presented by: Rocio Carvajal food anthropologist, culture and gastronomy educator. Episode 8 Our relationship with nature has always been a complex one. Unlike any other species in the world, we’ve dedicated our entire existence to alter it in all sorts of ways, for our own benefit. An apple orchard is a delicate man and nature-made ecosystem where not only apple trees live but als...

Hungry Books is presented by: Rocio Carvajal food anthropologist, culture and gastronomy educator. . Episode 7 This book by Carolyn Korsmeyer challenges the traditional philosophical views on 'taste" as an aesthetic category and explores the changing concepts about the sense of taste which was historically considered as inferior to the other senses. Traditional aesthetics doesn’t consider...

Hungry Books is presented by: Rocio Carvajal food anthropologist, culture and gastronomy educator. Episode 6 The premise of " Empires of food. Feast, famine and the rise and fall of civilisations ” is that history has shown us that most civilisations have fallen because of the flaws of their food system and that they have followed a clear pattern, one that our very own civilisation seems to b...

Hungry Books is presented by: Rocio Carvajal food anthropologist, culture and gastronomy educator. Episode 5 This book by award-wining author Bee Wilson is a masterclass in food studies, consumption habits, and a great introduction to food economics, it is uncomfortably relentless at providing hard evidence about how little control we have on our lives and the way politics and economics rule our w...

Hungry Books is presented by: Rocio Carvajal food anthropologist, culture and gastronomy educator. Ep 3 This week's book is like taking the red pill, you will embark on a deep philosophical and existential soul-searching from the comfort of your kitchen. It is an invitation to understand the value of being mindful, having an intention and using information and our creativity to cook for oursel...

Hungry Books is presented by: Rocio Carvajal food anthropologist, culture and gastronomy educator. Ep 2 "Eggs or Anarchy, The remarkable story of the man tasked with the impossible: to feed a nation at war" by William Sitwell follows the events that lead to the creation and operation of The Ministry of Food and the man who shaped it: Frederick James Marquis 1st Earl of Woolton, commonly...

Hungry Books is presented by: Rocio Carvajal food anthropologist, culture and gastronomy educator. Episode 1 This podcast premieres with " Blood Bones and Butter, the Inadvertent education of a Chef" by Gabrielle Hamilton a book that is thorny, delicious, oozing honesty to the point of being slightly uncomfortable, but it is also moving, inspiring and full of vitality intrigued? Have a l...