12 episodes

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_carvajalc

Email: hello@passthechipotle.com

Hungry Books Rocio Carvajal

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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_carvajalc

Email: hello@passthechipotle.com

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

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

    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 production, consumption, regulation, and commerce, delving into gendered, medical, religious, ideological, and cultural meanings that surround alcohol.

    We unpack all the juicy ways in which this book illuminates the global impact of alcohol and its essential role in shaping the processes of empire-building, industrialization, and decolonization. Join us as we uncover the profound influence of alcohol on societies during a transformative era, exploring the intersection of history, culture, and the human spirit.



    Get the book!

    Alcohol in the Age of Industry, Empire, and War. Edited by Dr Deborah Toner. (2021)  https://tinyurl.com/25b6au9j



    Contact Dr Toner:

    Twitter: @DeborahToner + @DrinkingStudies 

    Email: dt151@le.ac.uk 

    Academia.edu: https://tinyurl.com/yphw4wzy

    Research: https://le.ac.uk/people/deborah-toner 

    Drinking Studies Network

    • 1 hr 50 min
    Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato. by Rebecca Earle. 🥔

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

    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 the state in society.



    📗 Get the book! https://amzn.to/3BtjPWx

    Want more potatoes? Check this: The Untold History of the Potato by John Reader https://amzn.to/3kFDHPF

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    Find me here:

    📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hungrybookspodcast/

    🐦 http://www.twitter.com/rocio_carvajalc

    🌐web: https://www.passthechipotle.com/hungrybooks/

    📧 email: hello@passthechipotle.com

    Hungry Books uses Amazon affiliated links, every time you purchase a book you get smarter and help the show!

    • 1 hr 8 min
    An edible history of humanity by Tom Standage. Ep 10

    An edible history of humanity by Tom Standage. Ep 10

    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 political and ideological weaponisation of food policies, the book covers 12,000 years of innovation, war, technology, the rise of civilisations and the paradoxes and crossroads that define our present and indeed our future.

    📗Get the book! https://amzn.to/3spLhQE

    Contact the author:

    🔗Twitter https://twitter.com/tomstandage/

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    Find me here:

    📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hungrybookspodcast/ +

    https://www.instagram.com/rocio.carvajalc/

    🐦 http://www.twitter.com/rocio_carvajalc

    🌐web: www.passthechipotle.com/hungrybooks

    📧 email: hello@passthechipotle.com

    🙌🏽 Support this show with a donation: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/rfxWGIy  ☕

    Hungry Books uses Amazon affiliated links, every time you purchase a book you also help the show.

    • 47 min
    A Short History of Drunkenness by Mark Forsyth 🍷

    A Short History of Drunkenness by Mark Forsyth 🍷

    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 Mark Forsyth is a little, sharp, relentless funny and enlightening read that takes us into a wild historical journey and into different cultures, places and times where alcohol shaped the fait of humans in such a profound way, that it still echoes our to this very day.



    📗Get the book! https://amzn.to/38SLtj7



    Links mentioned on today’s episode:

    🔗The Symposium by Plato https://amzn.to/2X9THOx



    🔗The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai (Li Po) https://amzn.to/2MxcUHE



    🔗The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey https://amzn.to/3rWHJG4



    🔗The Annales School: An Intellectual History by Andre Burguiere https://amzn.to/2MgWUcH



    🔗Article: Who is Madame Geneva, and why should you care? by Jeffrey Stratton.

    https://tinyurl.com/y3dfddud



    🔗Interview Interview 🎤 with Dr. Deborah Toner: The cultural history of pulque http://bit.ly/35xOwwq



    Contact the author:

    🔗Twitter https://twitter.com/Inkyfool

    🔗Instagram https://www.instagram.com/markforsythauthor/

    🔗Website https://blog.inkyfool.com/



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    Find me here:

    📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hungrybookspodcast/ +

    https://www.instagram.com/rocio.carvajalc/



    🐦 http://www.twitter.com/rocio_carvajalc



    🌐web: www.passthechipotle.com/hungrybooks



    📧 email: hello@passthechipotle.com



    🙌🏽 Support this show with a donation: Buy me a cup of coffee! ☕

    Hungry Books uses Amazon affiliated links, every time you purchase a book you also help the show.

    • 53 min
    The apple orchard, the story of our most English fruit by Pete Brown 🍏

    The apple orchard, the story of our most English fruit by Pete Brown 🍏

    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 of apples through many intertwined stories that go from horticulture to politics, taste, farming, mysticism and cultural history. With an evangelical passion, Pete Brown introduces us to the wondrous universe of traditional apple orchards and history’s most desired, feared and worshipped and intriguing fruit.

    Links mentioned on today’s episode:

    📗Get the book! https://amzn.to/37AkQjy

    🔗 Contact Pete Brown on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PeteBrownBeer

    🔗 Pete’s website: https://www.petebrown.net/

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    Find me here:

    📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hungrybookspodcast/ +

    https://www.instagram.com/rocio.carvajalc/

    🐦 http://www.twitter.com/rocio_carvajalc

    🌐web: www.passthechipotle.com/hungrybooks

    📧 email: hello@passthechipotle.com

    🙌🏽 Support this show with a donation: Buy me a cup of coffee! ☕

    Hungry Books uses Amazon affiliated links, every time you purchase a book you also help the show.

    Hungry Books uses Amazon affiliated links, every time you purchase a book you also help the show.

    • 35 min
    Making sense of taste, food and philosophy by Carolyn Korsmeyer

    Making sense of taste, food and philosophy by Carolyn Korsmeyer

    Hungry Books is presented by: Rocio Carvajal food anthropologist, culture and gastronomy educator.

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    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 sensory, emotional and psychological aesthetic experiences in a way that no artistic creation. The episode explores the evolution of ideas about the senses, the philosophical concept about “tasteful and distasteful"and the role of food as a means of artistic expression.



    Get the books mentioned in the episode:

    📕 Making sense of taste, food and philosophy https://amzn.to/2XYVI1e

    📗 The Physiology of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy https://amzn.to/3g3zmCm

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    Find me here:

    📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hungrybookspodcast/ +

    https://www.instagram.com/rocio.carvajalc/

    🐦 http://www.twitter.com/rocio_carvajalc

    🌐 web: ⁠https://www.passthechipotle.com/hungrybooks⁠/

    📧 email: hello@passthechipotle.com

    🙌🏽 Support this show with a donation: Buy me a cup of coffee! ☕





    Hungry Books uses Amazon affiliated links, every time you purchase a book you also help the show.

    • 36 min

Customer Reviews

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2 Ratings

Fermentina ,

A Much-Needed Podcast about Food Books

I absolutely love the combination of extensive research and entertainment that Rocio Carvajal brings to the podcast. As with her previous and equally wonderful Pass the Chipotle podcast about Mexican food and cultural traditions, she adds snippets of music and anecdotes that bring the themes alive. If you’re interested in Food beyond cooking, this is the podcast for you. I look forward to many more episodes to come!

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