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05/13/2025
May 13 is World Cocktail Day, which celebrates the anniversary of the first-ever publication of the definition of “cocktail” in 1806, as “a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any… READ MORE
03/04/2021
Exciting new titles this season include: • An Illustrated Business History of the United States by Richard Vague, a sweeping, lively, and highly approachable history of American business from the nation’s… READ MORE
02/14/2020
Exciting new titles this season include: Bank Notes and Shinplasters by Joshua R. Greenberg, which shows how Americans accumulated and wielded monetary information in order to navigate the early republic's… READ MORE
06/08/2017
It doesn't feel like summer here on the East Coast, but wherever you are, you're probably beginning to put together a summer reading list. Well, Penn Press humbly submits for… READ MORE
12/22/2016
Penn Press is pleased to announce the release of our Spring 2017 catalog. Exciting new titles this season include Gregory Nobles' revelatory biography John James Audubon: The Nature of the… READ MORE
07/19/2016
Today, we have an exciting guest post from Douglas Southgate, Professor Emeritus at Ohio State University and coauthor with Lois Roberts of Globalized Fruit, Local Entrepreneurs, which challenges the perception that multinational… READ MORE
02/03/2015
In the fall, Penn published a book by C. Peter Timmer, Food Security and Scarcity: Why Ending Hunger Is So Hard. Timmer's book, as the title suggests, examines the challenges… READ MORE
10/16/2014
Today's Q&A is with E. N. Anderson, author of Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China. In it, Anderson provides an account of the development of the food systems… READ MORE
01/09/2014
Here are some of the latest arrivals in the Penn Press warehouse. Purchase it now at www.pennpress.org or look for it at your favorite bookseller. Empire of Vines: Wine Culture… READ MORE
12/16/2013
Yesterday Muna Salloum and Leila Salloum Elias–coauthors, along with their father Habeeb Salloum, of Scheherazade's Feasts: Foods of the Medieval Arab World—discussed historical Mideastern and Iberian cuisine with chef and travel… READ MORE
