A network for those interested in the history of nutrition and related fields. This network is intended for the growing number of scholars, teachers, documentary filmmakers, and museum and library professionals engaged with the history of nutrition in any time period or region.
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Source of the Month: How to Be Plump, Or, Talks on Physiological Feeding by T.C. Duncan, M.D.
July’s source of the month is T.C. Duncan’s 1878 weight gain pamphlet, How to Be Plump.
Food for Thought: H-Nutrition's monthly news round-up
H-Nutrition dishes up the latest nutrition news. Enjoy!
- A history of Red Drink:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-brief-history-of-red-drink-180980046/
Uekoetter on Treitel, 'Eating Nature in Modern Germany: Food, Agriculture and Environment, c.1870 to 2000'
***Cross-posted from H-German***
Author: Corinna Treitel
Reviewer: Frank Uekoetter
Corinna Treitel. Eating Nature in Modern Germany: Food, Agriculture and Environment, c.1870 to 2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 404 pp. $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-18802-0; $34.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-316-63839-2.
Reviewed by Frank Uekoetter (University of Birmingham) Published on H-German (May, 2022) Commissioned by Jasper Heinzen (Department of History, University of York)
Source of the Month: National Library of Medicine Nutrition Collections Online
June’s source of the month is a newly-released virtual guide to the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) focusing on nutrition. The guide includes staff-selected collection highlights of images, rare books and journals, historical films, NLM exhibitions, and other resources, including items from the NLM Digital Collections.
Join us as a host for New Books Network in Spanish
The New Books Network is a consortium of author-interview podcast channels dedicated to raising the level of public discourse by introducing scholars and other serious writers to a wide public via new media. Covering 90+ subjects, disciplines, and genres, we publish 55 episodes every week and serve a large, worldwide audience. We are about to celebrate the first anniversary of a parallel platform for interviews conducted entirely in Spanish.
Food for Thought: H-Nutrition's monthly news round-up
H-Nutrition dishes up the latest nutrition news. Enjoy!
- An interview with Diana Garvin, authour of Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women's Work: