by Janet Clarkson From the publisher: The Food History Almanac covers 365 days of the year, with information and anecdotes relating to food history from around the world from medieval times […]
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Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History
by Rachel Laudan From the publisher: Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world’s great cuisines—from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years […]
Cuisine and Culture: A History of Food and People
by Linda Civitello From the publisher: Cuisine and Culture presents a multicultural and multiethnic approach that draws connections between major historical events and how and why these events affected and defined the […]
Colonel Sanders and the American Dream
by Josh Ozersky From the publisher: This engrossing biography of Kentucky Fried Chicken/KFC founder Harland Sanders tells a uniquely American story of a dirt-poor striver with unlimited ambition who launched one […]
Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States
by Andrew Coe From the publisher: In 1784, passengers on the ship Empress of China became the first Americans to land in China, and the first to eat Chinese food. Today there are […]
San Francisco: A Food Biography
by Erica J. Peters From the publisher: San Francisco is a relatively young city with a well-deserved reputation as a food destination, situated near lush farmland and a busy port. San […]
As Long As We Both Shall Eat: A History of Wedding Food and Feasts
by Claire Stewart From the publisher: As Long as we Both Shall Eat is a culinary history of wedding feasts. Examining the various food customs associated with weddings in America and […]
Food on Foot: A History of Eating on Trails and in the Wild
by Demet Güzey From the publisher: What did great adventurers eat during their expeditions to the far corners of the world? How did they view the role of food in their […]
Chicago: A Food Biography
by Daniel R. Block and Howard B. Rosing From the publisher: Chicago began as a frontier town on the edge of white settlement and as the product of removal of culturally […]
Food in the Gilded Age: What Ordinary Americans Ate
by Robert Dirks From the publisher: The Gilded Age is renowned for a variety of reasons, including its culture of conspicuous consumption among the newly rich. In the domain of food, […]