Food: A Cultural Culinary History

Fussell, Betty. The Story of Corn. New York: North Point, 1992. One of the earliest single-subject food histories that became a ...

Bibliography Gratzer, Walter. Terrors of the Table: The Curious History of Nutrition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. E ...

Harris, Marvin. Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches. New York: Vintage, 1974. The anthropological materialist explanation for Hindu an ...

Bibliography ———. Jamaican Food. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, Beautiful book about a relatively understudied ...

Kamminga, Harmke, and Andrew Cunningham, eds. The Science and Culture of Nutrition, 1840–1940. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 19 ...

Bibliography Kurlansky, Mark. Cod. New York: Penguin, 1998. Very popular book that did a great deal to put food history on the m ...

McAvoy, Liz Herbert, and Teresa Walters, eds. Consuming Narratives: Gender and Monstrous Appetites in the Middle Ages and Renais ...

Bibliography written by an anthropologist. Explains slavery from the vantage point of the desire for sugar. ———. Tasting Food, T ...

Offer, Avner. Epidemics of Abundance: Overeating and Slimming in the USA and Britain Since the 1950s. Oxford, Oxford University ...

Bibliography Press, 2006. A fascinating counterpart to the American story of regulation and the food industries. Pillsbury, Rich ...

Reader, John. Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009. One of many engaging his ...

Bibliography Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation. Boston: Houghton Miffl in, 2001. Modern exposé of the fast-food industry and its ...

———. Food in China: A Cultural and Historical Inquiry. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1991. Ingredient-by-ingredient analysis with a ...

Bibliography Spang, Rebecca. The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Unive ...

Theophano, Janet. Eat My Words: Reading Women’s Lives through the Cookbooks They Wrote. New York: Palgrave, 2002. Feminist histo ...

Bibliography Vernon, James. Hunger: A Modern History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. The history of how human ac ...

study of English food from prehistory through the Victorian era. Relevant to all lectures about England. Witt, Doris. Black Hung ...

Bibliography Comparative essays about military and civilian provisioning and how food changed during the world wars. Internet ...

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