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Most Read This Week Tagged "Food History"

Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House
The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat
In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life
Have You Eaten Yet? Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World
Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America
Tasty: A History of Yummy Experiments (A Graphic Novel)
Secret History of Christmas Baking: Recipes & Stories from Tomb Offerings to Gingerbread Boys
The Seed Detective: Uncovering the Secret Histories of Remarkable Vegetables
Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of a Common Fate
Dinner in Rome: A History of the World in One Meal
Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human
Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew
The Restaurant: A History of Eating Out
Noodles, Rice, and Everything Spice: A Thai Comic Book Cookbook
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Food History Books

Salt: A World History
An Edible History of Humanity
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Food
Food in History
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
Spice: The History of a Temptation
Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee—The Dark History of the Food Cheats
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Food: A Culinary History from Antiquity to the Present (European Perspectives)
Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food
Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages
Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America
97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement
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Lists

The Food of Spain by Claudia RodenTapas by Penelope CasasThe Foods and Wines of Spain by Penelope CasasLa Cocina de Mama by Penelope CasasGrape, Olive, Pig by Matt Goulding
Best Spanish Cookbooks
72 books — 9 voters
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Anya von BremzenThe Cola Cookbook by Christina ToschFrench Women Don't Get Fat by Mireille GuilianoThe Creme Brulee Cookbook by Christina ToschThe Candy Cookbook by Christina Tosch
Unusual Cookbooks
577 books — 102 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachSalt by Mark KurlanskyThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterThe Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonLongitude by Dava Sobel
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,837 books — 2,552 voters
The Hidden White House by Robert KlaraBehind the Scenes by Elizabeth KeckleyThe Invisibles by Jesse J. HollandHistoric Homes of the American Presidents by Irvin HaasThe Residence by Kate Andersen Brower
The History of the White House (nonfiction)
35 books — 7 voters


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Quotes Tagged “Food History”

Elizabeth Chadwick
“ The squabs in wine sauce and the fragrant, steaming frumenty and apples seethed in almond milk went some way to reviving his strength, as did the sweet, potent ice-wine with which they plied him. ”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Greatest Knight
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Jeff Swystun
“ Food is a macro consideration for our planet and is ultimately intimate and personal to every single person. It nurtures, soothes, fuels, and fulfills. Taste is the physical manifestation of memory making what we eat a nostalgic continuum. ”
― Jeff Swystun, TV DINNERS UNBOXED: The Hot History of Frozen Meals
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Videos Tagged “Food History”

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