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, and that hunger and war were key in shaping how people ate, even more so than peace and abundance. D...
Apr 05, 2025•34 min•Season 1Ep. 4
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. Through the episode we examine in detail the volume’s eight chapters following the complexities of alcohol product...
Jan 13, 2024•1 hr 50 min
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 attitudes towards eating reflect the complex relationships between individual rights, freedom and the role of t...
Sep 03, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 11
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 revolutions and exploration. From the transition to a sedentary life and the birth of farming to the politica...
Mar 12, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 10
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 Drunkenness: How, Why, Where, and When Humankind Has Gotten Merry from the Stone Age to the Present by Mar...
Jan 11, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 9
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 also more than 2000 insects that call it home. The book explores the meandering and fascinating history...
Dec 22, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 8
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 food as an art form, yet, the author argues that food, unlike art can lead to stronger and more complex sens...
Jul 30, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 7
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 be following to the letter. The authors urge us to look into the history of such food systems to understan...
Jun 15, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 6
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 world, our plates and our health. The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change also...
Mar 16, 2020•49 min•Season 1Ep. 5
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 ourselves and others and more importantly it will encourage you to make the conscious effort to get in the kit...
Nov 29, 2019•33 min•Season 1Ep. 3
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 known as Lord Woolton. A man of humble origins compared to the Westminster elite, used his entrepreneurial gen...
Nov 12, 2019•21 min•Season 1Ep. 2
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 listen, get the book, and let me know if you also agree with the Anthony Bourdain’s opinion that this is “simpl...
Oct 23, 2019•15 min•Season 1Ep. 1
