Baby food reaches a new level of sophistication in this collectin of 150 recipes for everything from finger foods to traveling snacks. 20,000 first printing.

Based on the most current nutritional information, this concise guide offers new mothers a focused introduction to feeding babies healthy, nutritious foods during their first 12 months of life. With whimsical illustrations and clever recipe names—such as “Cereal Symphony” and “Adam’s Eggless Bananawama Muffins”—this handbook even introduces the concept of

Food consumption is a significant and complex social activity—and what a society chooses to feed its children reveals much about its tastes and ideas regarding health. In this groundbreaking historical work, Amy Bentley explores how the invention of commercial baby food shaped American notions of infancy and influenced the evolution

Identifying more than twenty different personalities, this helpful reference offers more than one thousand gift suggestions for everyone on one's list, whether they are a Sporty Adventurer or a Quirky Pal, along with essential shopping information and listings of online gift sources, price data, unique services, and more. Original.

This book focuses on the fiction of four postcolonial authors: V.S. Naipaul, Anita Desai, Timothy Mo and Salman Rushdie. It argues that meals in their novels act as sites where the relationships between the individual subject and the social identities of race, class and gender are enacted. Drawing upon a