Hungry Books

Hungry books is a podcast that explores the best books ever written on the subject of food, from history, anthropology, sociology, economics, biography, journals and politics and each episode presents a book that will change your life.Hungry Books is presented by: Rocio Carvajal food anthropologist, culture and gastronomy educator.web: ⁠https://www.passthechipotle.com/hungrybooks⁠/ Instagram: https://tinyurl.com/y2wh3syh Twitter: https://twitter.com/rocio_carvajalcEmail: hello@passthechipotle.com

Hungry Books is a arts podcast hosted by Rocio Carvajal, with 12 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Rocio Carvajal hosts Hungry Books, a arts show with 12 episodes published.

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  Episode #4

  Delizia! The epic story of the Italians and their food by John Dickie🍝

  Apr 5, 202534 minS1

  <p>Hungry Books is presented by: Rocio Carvajal food anthropologist, culture and gastronomy educator.<br></p><p>Episode 4</p><p>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, and that hunger and war were key in shaping how people ate, even more so than peace and abundance.</p><p>Delizia! The epic story of the Italians and th...

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  Hungry Books

  Alcohol in the Age of Industry, Empire, and War 🎤with Dr Deborah Toner

  Jan 13, 20241h 50mS0

  <p>Presented by: Rocio Carvajal Food anthropologist, culture & gastronomy educator.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Episode 12</p> <p>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. </p> <p>Through the episode we examine in detail the volume’s eight chapters following the complexities of alcohol production, consumption, regulation, and commerce, delving into gendered, medical, religious, ideological, and cultural meanings that surround alcohol.</p> <p...

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  Episode #11

  Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato. by Rebecca Earle. 🥔

  Sep 3, 20211h 9mS2

  <p> Hungry Books is presented by: Rocio Carvajal food anthropologist, culture and gastronomy educator.</p> <p>Episode 11</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Find out why our modern attitudes towards eating reflect the complex relationships between individual rights, freedom and the role of the state in society.</p> <p><br></p> <p>📗 Get the book! https://amzn.to/3BtjPWx</p> <p>Want more pot...

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  Episode #10

  An edible history of humanity by Tom Standage. Ep 10

  Mar 12, 202147 minS1

  <p> Hungry Books is presented by: Rocio Carvajal food anthropologist, culture and gastronomy educator.</p> <p>Episode 10</p> <p>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 revolutions and exploration.</p> <p>From the transition to a sedentary life and the birth of farming to the political and ideological weaponisation of food policies, the book covers 12,000 years of innovation, war, technology, the rise of civilisations...

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  Episode #9

  A Short History of Drunkenness by Mark Forsyth 🍷

  Jan 11, 202153 minS1

  <p> Hungry Books is presented by: Rocio Carvajal food anthropologist, culture and gastronomy educator.</p> <p>Episode 9</p> <p>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.</p> <p>A Short History of Drunkenness: How, Why, Where, and When Humankind Has Gotten Merry from the Stone Age to the Present by Mark Forsyth is a little, sharp, relentless funny and enlightening read...

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