{"product_id":"food-and-the-elements-mark-mcwilliams-9781800509214","title":"Food and the Elements: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2025","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFood and the Elements\u003c\/em\u003e examines not just the four elements of classical Western philosophy - fire, water, earth, and air - but also the elements of flavour, of chemistry, of culture, of care. In short, all the building blocks of the culinary world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrounded in a number of different disciplines, writers from around the globe consider the flavour of bitterness in rituals of trauma, the terror of elemental uptake, calendar change \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand culinary continuity in Southern Italy, coastal foraging in Mont-Saint-Michel Bay, traditional food pairings in French Polynesia, the role of caste in late nineteenth-century colonial western Indian meat markets, the uses of lithium, salts in the Himalayas and on the Catalan coast, nixtamalization in traditional Mexican foods, synthesizing saffron and vanilla, sourness in Persian cookery, Japanese temple cuisine, feeding the Royal Navy in the Age of Fighting Sail, water and food insecurity in Uganda, edible gold, and accounts of the creation of Adam, changing dietetic patterns in medieval Islam, and the Guangzhou kitchen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark McWilliams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1800509219\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781800509214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Equinox Publishing (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.75d","brand":"Mark McWilliams","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49148503884031,"sku":"9781800509214","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/food-and-the-elements-mark-mcwilliams-9781800509214","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}