History Books


Eat Not This Flesh, 2nd Edition: Food Avoidances from Prehistory to the Present Best Price: $27.43 While this book doesn't go that deep into primary sources (scriptures and the like), it is...	40 Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering Best Price: $22.88 Chez Panisse opened its doors in 1971. Founded by Alice Waters, the restaurant is rooted in her...	Food in Medieval Times (Food through History) Best Price: $52.55 If Scully, Henisch, Bober and Flandrin are household words in your kitchen, you can skip this...	Food Culture in Great Britain (Food Culture around the World) Best Price: $27.49 Students, Anglophiles, and literature hounds will want to delve into this delightful survey of...	Napa Best Price: $17.99 Conaway's Napa is subtitled, "The Story of an American Eden." Conaway has...



Craig Claiborne's A Feast Made for Laughter Best Price: $67.94	The Cambridge World History of Food An undertaking without parallel or precedent, this monumental two-volume work encapsulates much...	The Queen of Fats: Why Omega-3s Were Removed from the Western Diet and What We Can Do to Replace Them (California Studies in Food and Culture, 15) Best Price: $7.76 Here is a history of research leading to the discoveries that linoleic acid, an omega-6 type, is...	Medieval Cuisine of the Islamic World: A Concise History with 174 Recipes (California Studies in Food and Culture) Best Price: $16.26 "Bang the casserole against the ground," an instruction from one of the recipes in...	Beans: A History Best Price: $6.99 HOME BEANS ABOUT BEANS: A HISTORY Also Beans' Biographies By Ken Albala ...



The Century in Food: America's Fads and Favorites Best Price: $3.69 I bought this book the same day it got a nice plug in the Washington Post's food section. ...	Gold Rush Grub: From Turpentine Stew to Hoochinoo Best Price: $24.99 Gold Rush Grub: From Turpentine Stew To Hoochinoo is not just a vintage-themed cookbook, but...	River Rations : Recipes & Recollections of Rural Living Best Price: $16.00 Much more than simply a cookbook, River Rations is a compilation of recipes, recollections,...	Da Vinci's Kitchen: A Secret History of Italian Cuisine Best Price: $18.20 Part history, part biography, and part cookbook, this fascinating exploration of an as-yet...	Edible Secrets: A Food Tour of Classified US History Best Price: $5.69 What do top-secret CIA assassination plots, Black Panther arrests, and Reaganomics have in...

Ilimpa'chi' (Let's Eat!): A Chickasaw Cookbook Best Price: $25.00 Recipes, reminiscences, and lessons in Chickasaw lifeways are the main ingredients in ...	Los alimentos mágicos de las culturas indígenas mesoamericanas (La Ciencia Para Todos) (Spanish Edition) Best Price: $12.95 En esta obra se estudian los alimentos y bebidas que sirvieron de base para el desarrollo y...	The Pharaohs Kitchen: Recipes from Ancient Egypts Enduring Food Traditions Best Price: $16.36 The Pharaoh's Kitchen by Magda Mehdawy and illustrated by Amr Hussein is just fascinating! ...	The Master Cheesemakers of Wisconsin Best Price: $15.53 First, a confession: I know the authors. When I heard that Jim and Becca were running around the...	The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse Best Price: $22.05 What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century?...

Whitebread Protestants: Food and Religion in American Culture Best Price: $25.75 That bread and wine are at the center of most Christian religious services is not news. But...	Cooking in America, 1590-1840 (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series: Cooking Up History) Best Price: $30.60 This hard cover book cost a prohibitive pretty penny, but the collection of historical recipes,...	Menus from History [2 volumes]: Historic Meals and Recipes for Every Day of the Year Best Price: $195.00 Menus from History: Historic Meals and Recipes for Every Day of the Year offers a fascinating...	Food in Medieval Times (Food through History) Best Price: $25.00 I love books on historical cooking, and really looked forward to reading Food in Medieval times....	Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century (Modern Library Food) Best Price: $2.99 the late 19th century movement for scientific household management is an almost unbelievable...

American Appetite: The Coming of Age of a National Cuisine Best Price: $10.00 Tries to summarize how Americans in the past century have learned to eat better, but could more...	The Legal Sea Foods Cookbook Best Price: $8.89 There are a lot of thngs I like about the 1988 version of The Legal Seafoods Cookbook. It's...	The Origins and Ancient History of Wine (Food and Nutrition in History and Anthropology) This volume presents contemporary evidence scientific, archaeological, botanical, textual, and...	The Making of American Resorts: Saratoga Springs, Ballston Spa, and Lake George "Corbett's work makes a welcome addition to the regional history of upstate New York as...	The Oxford Book of Health Foods The health food industry is a billion-dollar business in the United States today and is thriving...

Food in the Ancient World (Ancient Cultures) In Food in the Ancient World , a respected classicist and a practising world-class chef explore...	Shut Up and Eat! Best Price: $15.68 "Shut up and eat"- the book contains great receipes and stories by those sharing their...	American Farmstead Cheese: The Complete Guide To Making and Selling Artisan Cheeses This comprehensive guide to farmstead cheese explains the diversity of cheeses in terms of...	Our Changed World Have you ever wondered what would happen if the ?world as you know it? would suddenly change?...	The Suffrage Cook Book Published, 1915. List of Contributors Mrs. John O. Miller Pittsburgh, Pa. Dr. Anna...

Vintage Cookbooks Holiday Cookies Enjoy 25 of my favorite holiday cookie recipes! From my Grandma's Fudge to fast and easy...	Jerry Thomas Bartenders Guide 1887 Reprint A complete reproduction of the 1887 Jerry Thomas Bartenders Guide with a new introduction by...	Bombers And Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45	Louisiana Cookery Here in the Bayou State we think good eating is one of the fine arts, and we spend a good bit...	The Ghana Cookery Book Best Price: $19.22 This book is more of a western type oF a book, DO NOT PURCHASE IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR...

Oil & Vinegar Best Price: $19.52 Nicely illustrated with full-page color photography, Oil & Vinegar is comprised of the...	The Dining Car: Collections & Recollections of Denison's First 125 Years Best Price: $10.99 This is an excellent book for any collection. It is a wonderful collection of history and...	America's Oringinal Depression Era Cookbook Best Price: $88.00	Mrs. Charles Darwin's Recipe Book: Revived and Illustrated Best Price: $19.99 MRS. CHARLES DARWIN'S RECIPE BOOK Revived and Illustrated By Dusha Bateson and Weslie...	A Book of fruits and flowers shewing the nature and use of them, either for meat or medicine: as also, to preserve, conserve, candy, and in wedges, or ... of sugar-works, turn'd works in sugar (1656) Best Price: $10.86 This book represents an authentic reproduction of the text as printed by the original publisher....

The Cook's Own Book, and Housekeeper's Register (Cooking in America) Written by A Boston Housekeeper, this is "a complete Culinary Encyclopedia: Comprehending...	Housekeeping In Old Virginia: Containing Contributions From Two Hundred And Fifty Of Virginia's Noted Housewives (1879) Best Price: $37.85 Containing Contributions From Two Hundred And Fifty Of Virginia's Noted Housewives...	The International Book of Beer: A Guide to the World's Most Popular Drink Best Price: $17.77 Beer is the most widely consumed beverage in the world. Here is an account of the fascinating...	97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement As someone who is fascinated by all things food, including and especially the history of food as...	A tavola con gli Zar. La cucina dei narratori russi (Italian Edition) Il cibo sembrava una chimera nell?Unione Sovietica di fine secolo, attanagliata dalla fame e...

How Italian Food Conquered the World Not so long ago, Italian food was regarded as a poor man?s gruel?little more than pizza,...	The President's Table The President's Table offers a sweeping visual history of the American Presidency as seen...	Egg Gravy (Butter in the Well Series) Didn't think about all the things the pioneers had to make from scratch...floor paint?...	The Diner - Simpler Times & Good Food A lot of us have fond memories of a simpler time when Diners were everywhere. The diner is a...	Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human Best Price: $10.17 Interesting book for a wide range of readership, but would probably recommend it more to the...

Butter 'em While They're Hot 47 original recipes for biscuits, muffins, crackers, etc. Third edition, originally published...	The Best of The Farmer's Wife Cookbook: Over 400 blue-ribbon recipes! Long before the Internet and high-speed travel connected us all, The Farmer?s Wife magazine...	Family Baking Recipes Of the Signers: Family Recipes From and Little Known Historical Tidbits About Those Men Who So Courageously Affixed Their Names ... of Independence and Our Constitution. Best Price: $19.95 Baking in the American Colonies was far from an easy task. The women of the house made quite an...	The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy Best Price: $7.42 Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755?1826) was a French lawyer and politician who gained unlikely...	Historical Thanksgiving Cooking and Baking Best Price: $13.28

Canadians at Table: Food, Fellowship, and Folklore: A Culinary History of Canada Best Price: $16.80 Canadians at Table is an introduction to the diverse culinary history of Canada.We learn about...	El Paso Cook Book (Cooking in America) Best Price: $0.98 As an El Paso native who served on the modern YWCA board, couldn't pass up this cookbook....	The Empire Of Tea Best Price: $6.00 At last a book on tea, which describes the whole story with all the fascination and romance of...	Coffee Talk: The Stimulating Story of the World's Most Popular Brew Best Price: $2.40 If you wanted to know EVERYTHING about coffee (and I mean EVERYTHING), this book is for you. It...	Cooking from Memory: A Journey Through Jewish Food Best Price: $11.00 Part cookbook, part history lesson, this book illustrates the story of the Jewish Diaspora in...

The Master Cheesemakers of Wisconsin Best Price: $15.53 First, a confession: I know the authors. When I heard that Jim and Becca were running around the...	The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse Best Price: $22.05 What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century?...	Whitebread Protestants: Food and Religion in American Culture Best Price: $25.75 That bread and wine are at the center of most Christian religious services is not news. But...	Cooking in America, 1590-1840 (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series: Cooking Up History) Best Price: $30.60 This hard cover book cost a prohibitive pretty penny, but the collection of historical recipes,...	Menus from History [2 volumes]: Historic Meals and Recipes for Every Day of the Year Best Price: $195.00 Menus from History: Historic Meals and Recipes for Every Day of the Year offers a fascinating...

Food in Medieval Times (Food through History) Best Price: $25.00 I love books on historical cooking, and really looked forward to reading Food in Medieval times....	Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century (Modern Library Food) Best Price: $2.99 the late 19th century movement for scientific household management is an almost unbelievable...	American Appetite: The Coming of Age of a National Cuisine Best Price: $10.00 Tries to summarize how Americans in the past century have learned to eat better, but could more...	The Legal Sea Foods Cookbook Best Price: $8.89 There are a lot of thngs I like about the 1988 version of The Legal Seafoods Cookbook. It's...	Eating for England Best Price: $4.22 The British have a relationship with their food that is unlike that of any other country. Once...

Moveable Feasts: From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat Best Price: $3.37 One of the rallying cries in the localvore movement is that shipping food out of the area its...	LA Bonne Soupe Cookbook Best Price: $3.97 La Bonne Soupe used to be one of my favorite restaurants for lunch, and I ate there often. ...	Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History Best Price: $1.99 Mark Kurlansky is one of our most erudite and entertaining food writers: the bestselling author...	Alcoholica Esoterica: A Collection of Useful and Useless Information As It Relates to the History andConsumption of All Manner of Booze Best Price: $6.95 "A ridiculously entertaining collection of alcohol-related facts and tidbits, gathered...	Food: A Culinary History from Antiquity to the Present Best Price: $32.15 This is an academic study filled with essays by forty contributing authors. "FOOD: A...

Salt: Grain of Life Best Price: $6.39 For the sake of salt, Rome created a system of remuneration (from which we get the word...	Peanuts: The Illustrious History of the Goober Pea (The Food Series) Best Price: $10.38 The peanut is one of the most versatile and beloved of American food icons. In this first...	Moveable Feasts: The History, Science, and Lore of Food Best Price: $37.55 Food has functioned both as a source of continuity and as a subject of adaptation in the course...	My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking Best Price: $16.00 Alice Waters calls Niloufer Ichaporia King "one of the great cooks I know." It makes...	Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages Best Price: $41.38 So says Patrick McGovern, and this book explains how it got that way. McGovern theorizes that...

The Gastronomica Reader Best Price: $19.00 "Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture," is a publication that exists...	Hard to Swallow: A Brief History of Food Best Price: $39.96 Award-winning microbiologist and food safety expert, Richard Lacey, sweeps away the mystery...	Their Last Suppers: Legends of History and Their Final Meals Best Price: $3.61 As long as there has been history, food has been an integral, but often ignored, binding thread....	Stir the Pot: The History of Cajun Cuisine Best Price: $10.10 "I'm happy to see the real story of the evolution of Cajun cuisine finally put in...	A Pint of Plain: Tradition, Change, and the Fate of the Irish Pub Best Price: $2.49 Ok book but this guy is an outsider commenting on Irish culture. I picked this up thinking it...

The Historical Cookbook of the American Negro: The Classic Year-Round Celebration of Black Heritage from Emancipation Proclamation Breakfast Cake to Wandering Pilgrim's Stew Best Price: $22.99 It's not so much for the recipes that I am buying this cookbook. There are some fabulous...	The Historical Cookbook of the American Negro (Cookery) this is book is more than a cookbook, it is full of historical stories behind the african...	Chilies to Chocolate: Food the Americas Gave the World Columbus stumbled upon the New World while seeking the riches of the orient, yet native peoples...

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