| LC control no. | n 00009130 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Albala, Ken, 1964- |
| Variant(s) | Albala, Kenneth, 1964- |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Stockton (Calif.) |
| Address | kalbala@pacific.edu |
| Birth date | 1964-11-03 |
| Field of activity | Food--History |
| Affiliation | University of the Pacific |
| Profession or occupation | Food historians University and college faculty members |
| Found in | For thy stomach's sake, 2001: CIP t.p. (Ken Albala) data sheet (Kenneth (Bruce) Albala; b. 11-03-64) Eating right in the Renaissance, c2002: t.p. (Ken Albala) jkt. (assoc. prof., Dept. of History, Univ. of the Pacific) His web page on University of the Pacific website, January 31, 2017 (Ken Albala; Professor of History, Chair of Food Studies; He has authored or edited 23 books on food including Eating Right in the Renaissance, Food in Early Modern Europe, Cooking in Europe 1250-1650, The Banquet, Beans (winner 2008 IACP Jane Grigson Award), Pancake, Grow Food, Cook Food, Share Food and Nuts: A Global History. He was co-editor of the journal Food, Culture and Society and has also co-edited The Business of Food, Human Cuisine, Food and Faith and edited A Cultural History of Food: The Renaissance and The Routledge International Handbook of Food Studies. Albala was editor of the Food Cultures Around the World series, the 4-volume Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia and the 3-volume Sage Encyclopedia of Food Issues published in 2015. He is also series editor of Rowman and Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy for which wrote Three World Cuisines (winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards best foreign cuisine book in the world for 2012). He has also co-authored two cookbooks: The Lost Art of Real Cooking and The Lost Arts of Hearth and Home. His latest works are a Food History Reader and a translation of the 16th century Livre fort excellent de cuysine. His course Food: A Cultural Culinary History is available on DVD from the Great Courses. In the fall 2015 his At the Table: Food and Family Around the World will the published; kalbala@pacific.edu) <http://www.pacific.edu/Academics/Schools-and-Colleges/College-of-the-Pacific/Academics/Departments-and-Programs/History/Our-Faculty/Directory/Ken-Albala.html> |
| Associated language | eng |
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