by Psyche A. Williams-Forson From the publisher: Chicken–both the bird and the food–has played multiple roles in the lives of African American women from the slavery era to the present. It has […]
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Bread: A Global History
by William Rubel From the publisher: What food is more basic, more essential and more universal than bread? Common to the diets of both rich and poor, bread is one of […]
Black Rice: a history of rice and enslaved Africans
by Judith A. Carney From the publisher: Few Americans identify slavery with the cultivation of rice, yet rice was a major plantation crop during the first three centuries of settlement in the […]
Big Oyster: a book about the history of oysters
by Mark Kurlansky From the publisher: Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New York by following the trajectory of one of its most fascinating inhabitants–the oyster. For centuries New […]
Better Than Homemade: Amazing Foods that Changed the Way We Eat
by Carolyn Wyman From the publisher: Who put the Minute in Minute Rice? What, exactly, is Spam? And why do Pringles come in a tennis ball can? Discover the answers to […]
Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States
by John Soluri From the publisher: Bananas, the most frequently consumed fresh fruit in the United States, have been linked to Miss Chiquita and Carmen Miranda, “banana republics,” and Banana Republic […]
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
by Dan Koeppel From the publisher: In the vein of Mark Kurlansky’s bestselling Salt and Cod, a gripping chronicle of the myth, mystery, and uncertain fate of the world’s most popular fruit. In this fascinating and […]
Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and Rastus: a history of blacks in food advertising
by Marilyn Kern-Foxworth From amazon: Kern-Foxworth chronicles the stereotypical portrayals of Blacks in advertising from the turn of the century to the present. Beginning with slave advertisements, she discusses how slavery led […]
Appetite for Change: a history of the counterculture revolution in food
by Warren James Belasco From the publisher: In this engaging inquiry, originally published in 1989 and now fully updated for the twenty-first century, Warren J. Belasco considers the rise of the […]
American Tuna: the history of tunafish
From the publisher: In a lively account of the American tuna industry over the past century, celebrated food writer and scholar Andrew F. Smith relates how tuna went from being […]