The purpose of this article is to broaden our understanding of the lived experience of
cosmopolitanism and to expand the notion of multiple everyday cosmopolitanisms. Drawing …

Wine is one of the most celebrated and appreciated commodities around the world. Wine
writers and scientists tell us much about varieties of wines, winegrowing estates, the …

Terroir is a complex French cultural term used to identify and classify artisanal foods and
drinks in relation to a specific place. Notoriously “untranslatable”, terroir has nevertheless …

When I was contacted by Emma Travis at Routledge and asked to edit a volume on wine
and culture for their Handbook series, I immediately declined. I'd just come out of editing two …

This paper is concerned with how to construct a sociology of wine. It begins by considering
the sociologist's relations to wine, making comparisons to how sociologists relate to music …

Humans and yeast have a long history of productive collaboration in making a global array
of fermented foodstuffs including wine, bread, and beer. Synthetic biology is now changing …

Even as the concept of terroir becomes more salient in diverse cultural and national
contexts, climate-driven environmental change threatens to alter the ecologies that …

Technical innovations such as ultra–high temperature processing and aseptic packaging
increase liquid milk's portability and its safety, making milk available to more consumers …

An epic, scandal-plagued story of the immigrant family that built and then spectacularly lost a
global wine empire Set in California s lush Napa Valley and spanning four generations of a …

Wine is intimately bound up with ethnicity. The chapter provides a socio-historical survey of
the complex relations between winemaking and drinking on the one side and ethnicity …