edited by C.M. Woolgar, D. Serjeantson, and T. Waldron From the publisher: Food and diet are central to understanding daily life in the middle ages. In the last two decades, the […]
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Feast: Why Humans Share Food
by Martin Jones From the publisher: The family dinner, the client luncheon, the holiday spread–the idea of people coming together for a meal seems the most natural thing in the world. […]
Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee
by Bee Wilson From the publisher: Bad food has a history. Swindled tells it. Through a fascinating mixture of cultural and scientific history, food politics, and culinary detective work, Bee Wilson uncovers the […]
From Hardtack to Homefries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals
by Barbara Haber From the publisher: Barbara Haber, one of America’s most respected authorities on the history of food, has spent years excavating fascinating stories of the ways in which meals […]
Talking Turkey: A Food Lover’s Guide to the Origins of Culinary Words and Phrases
by Robert Hendrickson From the publisher: Food is a favorite topic of conversation around the worldhow to create it, how to season it, how to compliment it with other foods, how […]
Six Thousand Years of Bread: Its Holy and Unholy History
by H. E. Jacob From the publisher: Give us this day our daily bread. From ancient Egypt to modern times, bread is the essential food, the symbol of fundamental well-being. H.E. […]
Finding Betty Crocker: The Secret Life of America’s First Lady of Food
by Susan Marks From the publisher: In 1945, FORTUNE MAGAZINE named Betty Crocker the second most popular American woman, right behind Eleanor Roosevelt, and dubbed Betty America’s First Lady of Food. Not bad […]
Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats
by Daniel Stone From the publisher: The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who traveled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes—and thousands more—to […]
97 Orchard: a book about immigrant diets in New York’s Lower East Side
by Jane Ziegelman From the publisher: 97 Orchard is a richly detailed investigation of the lives and culinary habits—shopping, cooking, and eating—of five families of various ethnicities living at the turn of […]
Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century
by Kyla Wazana Tompkins From the publisher: The act of eating is both erotic and violent, as one wholly consumes the object being eaten. At the same time, eating performs a kind […]