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This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2013. Food is a multidimensional construct which is largely taken for granted in lands of plenty but where for a large proportion of the world's inhabitants, is part of a daily struggle for survival. The global food economy is larger than the arms and fuel economies combined and larger than many national economies. Multidisciplinary explorations of the dimensions of food shed light on the complexity, enormity, and dialectic dynamism that shape economies, cultures and societies at the macro level and individual needs, rituals, beliefs, and practices at the micro level. Exploring literary, economic, cultural, political, historical dimensions of food, along with notions of food's place in creating identity and change, this volume represents a small incursion into the much larger landscape that is food.