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Most Read This Week Tagged "Food History"

Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat
Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History
The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years
Dinner in Rome: A History of the World in One Meal
Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of a Common Fate
Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue (A Ferris and Ferris Book)
Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails
The Seed Detective: Uncovering the Secret Histories of Remarkable Vegetables
Tasty: A History of Yummy Experiments (A Graphic Novel)
Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America
Secret History of Christmas Baking: Recipes & Stories from Tomb Offerings to Gingerbread Boys
Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human
Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House
Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America
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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
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food
Spice: The History of a Temptation
Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee—The Dark History of the Food Cheats
Food: A Culinary History from Antiquity to the Present (European Perspectives)
Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages
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Lists

Pleyn Delit by Sharon ButlerThe Medieval Kitchen by Odile RedonCookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by ApiciusThe Little House Cookbook by Barbara M. WalkerMrs Beeton's Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton
Historical Cookery
317 books — 78 voters
The New Midwestern Table by Amy ThielenThe Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen by Sean ShermanSavoring the Seasons of the Northern Heartland by Beth DooleyLife of Cheese by Heather PaxsonPrairie Home Cooking by Judith M. Fertig
Regional Foodways & Cuisine: The Midwest
32 books — 2 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
1,856 books — 2,213 voters
Dirt by Bill BufordWine and War by Don KladstrupBefore the Baguette by Jim ChevallierChampagne by Don KladstrupA Bite-Sized History of France by Stephane Henaut
Top Books About French Food
50 books — 3 voters

Caste by Isabel WilkersonOverground Railroad by Candacy A. TaylorVanguard by Martha S. JonesDriving While Black by Gretchen SorinBlack Diamond Queens by Maureen Mahon
History by African-Americans Published in Year: 2020
17 books — 1 voter
The Hidden White House by Robert KlaraThe Invisibles by Jesse J. HollandBehind the Scenes by Elizabeth KeckleyHistoric Homes of the American Presidents by Irvin HaasThe Residence by Kate Andersen Brower
The History of the White House (nonfiction)
35 books — 8 voters


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Quotes Tagged “Food History”

“ The inventor of Aeroplane Jelly was a tram driver. ”
― Jan O'Connell, A Timeline of Australian Food: From Mutton to Masterchef
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“ A whole generation of Australians may well agree that abolition of school milk was one of the finer achievements of the Whitlam government, up there with free university education and ending conscription. ”
― Jan O'Connell, A Timeline of Australian Food: From Mutton to Masterchef
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Videos Tagged “Food History”

True Tale of My Life
True Tale of My Life
Eat Like a King: Henry VIII
Eat Like a King: Henry VIII
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Groups Tagged "Food History"

Gastronomy/Food Studies For those gastronomy lovers, food and culinary fans, and overall food history buffs. This group …more
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