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Merry White Honored for Contributions to Japanese Studies

ssilverman — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:47:30 +0000

We are pleased to announce that the Government of Japan honored UC Press author Merry White today with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon decoration. The award recognizes Professor White’s significant contribution to the development of Japanese studies and the introduction of Japanese culture in the United States.

Merry White, better [more...]

Happy International Tempranillo Day

ssilverman — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:03:08 +0000

Not that you need an excuse to tuck into a great bottle of Tempranillo, but we’re giving you one anyway! Today is International Tempranillo Day, a celebration of the Tempranillo grape with all its regional synonyms. TAPAS, the Tempranillo Advocates Producers and Amigos Society, has organized this day and is encouraging everyone to open a [more...]

Mexican Cuisine’s African Roots

ssilverman — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 21:29:09 +0000

Thanks to Marilyn Tausend for this guest post on the fascinating, little-known history of Africa’s influence on Mexican cuisine. Tausend is the author of the new UC Press book La Cocina Mexicana: Many Cultures, One Cuisine, Cocina de la Familia: More than 200 Authentic Recipes from Mexican-American Home Kitchens (winner of the IACP Julia Child Award for the [more...]

Why I Wrote The Hakka Cookbook

ssilverman — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:56:20 +0000

This guest post comes to us from veteran food writer Linda Lau Anusasananan, a recipe editor for Sunset Magazine for 34 years and former president of the Association of Chinese Cooking Teachers and the San Francisco Chapter of Les Dames d’Escoffier. Here she describes her family history and the inspiration for writing The Hakka Cookbook. [more...]

From our Journals Division: The NEW Gastronomica.org!

ssilverman — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:56:47 +0000

University of California Press and Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture are pleased to announce the all-new Gastronomica Website! With free articles, Web-exclusive content, and an expanded Chef’s Page—featuring interviews with notable chefs from around the world—never before have you seen so much great writing on food, all in one place.

So visit today, and [more...]

UC Press Interviews: Kate Marshall talks to Darra Goldstein

ssilverman — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:26:45 +0000

On Friday, May 4, Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture received the Best Publication Award at the James Beard Foundation Awards in New York, NY. The award was accepted by Darra Goldstein, Gastronomica’s founding editor and the Francis Christopher Oakley Third Century Professor of Russian at Williams College.

The Beard Awards is widely recognized within [more...]

Gastronomica Named Co-Winner for Best Publication of the Year by the James Beard Foundation

ssilverman — Fri, 11 May 2012 00:11:10 +0000

We are very proud to announce that our journal Gastronomica is the co-winner of the James Beard Foundation’s “Publication of the Year.” In the announcement, Gastronomica was cited for its editorial excellence over the last eleven years and for the ways in which the journal has generally deepened our understanding of food.

As one Facebook commenter [more...]

UC Press Podcast: Why Calories Count

ssilverman — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:46:21 +0000

Calories—too few or too many—are the source of health problems affecting billions of people in today’s globalized world. Although calories are essential to human health and survival, they cannot be seen, smelled, or tasted. They are also hard to understand. In Why Calories Count, Marion Nestle and Malden Nesheim explain in clear [more...]

UC Press Podcast: A Carafe of Red

ssilverman — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:09:58 +0000

We’re back with the second podcast of the Spring 2012 season, this time going to our food and wine list where Chris Gondek is interviewing Gerald Asher about his new book A Carafe of Red.

Every wine has a story. In this collection of elegantly written essays from the past thirty years, updated with a [more...]

An Acquiring Eye: Blake Edgar on Wine Books

ssilverman — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:06:47 +0000

We’re kicking off our Acquiring Eye series, where one of our acquiring editors offers up their perspective on key books we’re coming out with. First up is Blake Edgar, our Senior Editor for the Natural Sciences. In addition to acquiring books on Biology and Biological Anthropology, Blake oversees our Wine and Viticulture titles, so who [more...]