Food: A Cultural Culinary History

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written by an anthropologist. Explains slavery from the vantage point of the
desire for sugar.

———. Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom. Boston: Beacon, 1996. A book
about U.S. ethnic groups and their relationship with food.

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  1. A history of medieval foodways from a leader in the fi eld.


———. Food Is Culture. Albert Sonnenfeld, tr. New York: Columbia
University Press, 2006. Thoughts about food by the preeminent medieval
food historian.

Mudry, Jessica J. Measured Meals: Nutrition in America. Albany: State
University of New York Press, 2009. Study of how calories came to dominate
nutritional theory in the 20th century.

Murray, Sarah. Moveable Feasts: From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the
Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat. New York: St. Martin’s, 2007. The
history of food transport.

Norton, Marcy. Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and
Chocolate in the Atlantic World. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008.
About the massive historical impact of two New World products.

Oddy, Derek J. From Plain Fare to Fusion Food: British Diet from the 1890s
to the 1900s. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2003. A history that parallels the U.S.
narrative about food.

Oddy, Derek J., Peter Atkins, and Virginie Amilien, eds. The Rise of Obesity
in Europe: A Twentieth-Century Food History. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate,


  1. Essays on the impact of the modern food industry, nutritional theory,
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Oliver, Sandra L. Food in Colonial and Federal America. Westport, CT:
Greenwood, 2005. Fine survey of early American cooking.
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