Reading List

The following is a list of books that may be of interest to culinary historians. For additional suggestions, see the collection at the Smithsonian Institution, Museum of American History. Please feel free to donate a copy of a new or used book if you wish. Bring books to be donated to any CHoW meeting.

Click HERE for a list of sources for used and out-of-print books on food subjects.

A

A Table au XIXeme Siecle - catalog of a Musee d'Orsay exhibit [Flammarion 2001]

Allen, Brigid - Food: An Oxford Anthology (paper) [1995]

B

Bannerman, Colin - A Friend in the Kitchen: Old Australian Cookery Books [Kangaroo Press 1996]

Beard, James - Beard On Food Reprint Running Press [2000] with introduction by Julia Child

Beecher, Catherine, and Harriet Beecher Stowe - The American Woman's Home (paper) Reprint with introduction by Nicole Tonkovich

Belasco, Warren & Philip Scranton (eds) - Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies (paper) [2002]

Belden, Louise Conway - The Festive Tradition: Table Decoration and Desserts in America, 1960-1900 (hardcover) [1983]

Bell, Michael - From Bullrakes to Clambakes: The Occupational Folklife of the Narragansett Bay Shellfishery (paper) [2002]

Bemelmans, Ludwig - La Bonne Table (paper) [2001]

Benson, Evelyn Abraham - Penn Family Recipes: Cooking Recipes of William Penn's Wife, Gugliema (hardcover) [1966]

Bottero, Jean - The Oldest Cuisine in the World: Cooking in Mesopotamia (Translation) [2004]

Bower, Anne L. (ed) - Recipes For Reading: Community Cookbooks, Stories, Histories (paper) [1997]

Brown, Linda Keller & Kay Mussell - Ethnic and Regional Foodways in the United States: The Performance of Group Identity (paper) [1984]

Bundy, Beverly - The Century in Food: America's Fads and Favorites (hardcover) [2002]

Butko, Brian - Klondikes, Chipped Ham & Skyscraper Cones: The Story of Isaly's (paper) [2001]

C

Camp, Charles - American Foodways: What, When, Why and How We Eat in America (hardcover) [1989]

Civitello, Linda - Cuisine and Culture: A History of Food and People (hardcover)

Cohen, Leah Hager - Glass, Paper, Beans: Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things (paper) [1997]

Curtin, Deane W. & Lisa M. Heldke - Cooking, Eating, Thinking: Transformative Philosophies of Food (paper) [1992]

D

Dalby, Andres - Dangerous Tastes: The Story of Spices [2000]

David, Elizabeth - Harvest of the Cold Months: The Social History of Ice and Ices

Denker, Joel - The World on a Plate [2003]

Drummond, J.C. & Anne WIlbraham - The Englishman's Food: A History of Five Centures of English Diet

F

Ferris, Marcie Cohen - Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South (hardcover) [2005]

Flandrin, Jean-Louis & Massimo Montanari - Food: A Culinary History from Antiquity to The Present (paper) [1999]

Freeling, Nicholas - The Kitchen Book/The Cook Book: Two Culinary Classics (paper) [1991]

Funderburg, Ann Cooper - Chocolate, Strawberry, and Vanilla, A History of American Ice Cream (paper) [1995]

G

Glasse, Hannah - The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy (facsimile, 1805 edition) (paper) [1997]

Gutman, Richard J. S. - American Diner Then and Now (paper) [2000]

Guy, Christian - An Illustrated History of French Cuisine (hardcover) [1962]

Guy, Kolleen M - When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity

H

Haber, Barbara - From Hardtack To Home Fries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals (hardcover) [2002]

Harris, Joanne - Chocolat (paper) [1999]

Hatchett, Louis - Duncan Hines: the Man Behind the Cake Mix

Hines, Duncan - Adventures in Good Eating and the Art of Carving in the Home (Facsimile reprint of a 1939 collection of recipes from restaurants recommended by Hines)

Holder, Katy & Jane Newdick - A Dash of Mustard: Mustard in the Kitchen and on the Table: Recipes & Traditions (hardcover) [1995]

Holland, Leandra Zim - Feasting and Fasting with Lewis & Clark: A Food and Social History of the Early 1800s [2003]

Hooker, Richard J. (ed.) - A Colonial Plantation Cookbook: The Receipt Book of Harriott Pinckney Horry, 1770

I

Inness, Sherry A. - Cooking Lessons: The Politics of Gender and Food (paper) [2001]

J

James, Kenneth - Escoffier: The King of Chefs [Hambledon and London, 2003]

Jenkins, Virginia Scott - Bananas: An American History (paper) [Smithsonian 2000]

Jones, Evan - American Food: The Gastronomic Story (hardcover) [1975]

K

Kakuzo, Okakura - The Book of Tea: The Illustrated Classic Edition (hardcover)

L

Levenstein, Harvey - Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America (paperback revised edition)

                            Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet (paper)

Luchetti, Cathy - Home on the Range: A Culinary History of the American West [1993]

M

MacClancy, Jeremy - Consuming Culture (hardcover) [1992]

Manring, M.M. - Slave In A Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima (paper) [1998]

McFeely, Mary Drake - Can She Bake A Cherry Pie? American Women and the Kitchen in the Twentieth Century (paper and hardcover) [2002]

Meyers, Miriam - A Bite Off Mama's Plate: Mothers' and Daughters' Connections Through Food  (paper) [2001]

Murdock, Catherine Gilbert - Domesticating Drink: Women, Men, and Alcohol in America, 1870 1940 (paper) [2002]

N

Nabhan, Gary - Coming Home To Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods, (hardcover) [2002]

Nestle, Marion - Food Politics: How The Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health, (hardcover) [University of California Press 2002]

Neuhaus, Jessamyn - Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America (hardcover) [2003]

O

Owings, Alison - Hey, Waitress! The USA from the Other Side of the Tray (hardcover) [2002]

P

Peterson, Joan & David Peterson - Eat Smart In Mexico: How to Decipher the Menu, Know the Market Foods & Embark on a Tasting Adventure (paper) [1998]

Peterson, Joan & Indu Menon - Eat Smart In India (paper) [2004]

Peterson, T. Sarah - Acquired Taste: The French Origins of Modern Cooking

Pindeo, Encarnacion - Encarnacion's Kitchen: Mexican Recipes from Nineteenth-Century California (edited and translated by Dan Strehl)

R

Rain, Patricia - Vanilla: The Cultural History of the World's Favorite Flavor and Fragrance [2004]

Reichl, Ruth - Tender At the Bone: Growing Up At The Table (paper & hardcover) [1998]

Mrs. Rorer's Philadelphia Cook Book (1869)

Rutherford, Janice Williams - Selling Mrs. Consumer: Christine Frederick and the Rise of Household Efficiency (paper)

S

Sack, Daniel - Whitebread Protestants: Food and Religion in American Culture (paper & hardcover)[2001]

Salinger, Sharon V. - Taverns and Drinking in Early America (hardcover & paper) [2002]

Scapp, Ron & Brian Seitz (eds) - Eating Culture (paper) [1998]

Schofield, Mary Anne (ed) - Cooking By The Book: Food In Literature And Culture (hardcover) [1989]

See, Anik - A Taste For Adventure: A Culinary Odyssey Around The World (paper) [2001]

Shepard, Sue - Pickles, Potted and Canned: How the Art and Science of Food Preserving Changed the World (hardcover) [2000]

Shortridge, Barbara & James Shortridge - The Taste of American Place: A Reader on Regional and Ethnic Foods (paper) [1998]

Smith, Andrew F. - The Tomato In America: Early History, Culture, and Cookery (hardcover) [1994]

Stavely, Keith and Kathleen Fitzgerald - America's Founding Food: The Story of New England Cooking [2004]

Stern, Jane & Michael Stern - American Gourmet: Classic Recipes, Deluxe Delights, Flamboyant Favorites, and Swank "Company" Food From The '50s and '60s (paper & hardcover) [1991]

Strasser, Susan - Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash (hardcover) [1999]

Sullivan, Charles L. - A Companion to California Wine: An Encyclopedia of Wine and Winemaking from the Mission Period to the Present (hardcover) [University of California Press 1998]

T

Theophano, Janet - Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives Through The Cookbooks They Wrote (paper & hardcover) [2002]

This, Herve - Molecular Gastronomy: Exploring the Science of Flavor (hardcover) [2006]

Thompson, Peter - Rum Punch & Revolution: Taverngoing and Public Life in Eighteenth-century Philadelphia [UPA Press 1999]

Thorne, John - Simple Cooking (paper) [1987]

                      Serious Pig (hardcover) [1996]

Tisdale, Sallie, - The Best Thing I Ever Tasted (paper)

Toussaint-Samat, Maguelonne - History of Food (paper) [2001]

V

Viola, Herman J. & Carolyn Margolis - Seeds of Change: Five Hundred Years Since Columbus (paper) [1991]

W

Williamson, CiCi - The Best of Virginia Farms, Cookbook & Tour Book (hardcover) [2003]

Wilson, C. Anne (ed.) - The Appetite and the Eye

        Food and Drink in Britain: From the Stone Age to the 19th Century (paperback reprint) [1973,1991]

Wilson, David S. & Angus K. Gillespie (eds) - Rooted In America: Foodlore of Popular Fruits and Vegetables (paper) [1999]

Woloson, Wendy A. - Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth- Century America (hardback) [2002]

Wylie, Diane - Starving on a Full Stomach: Hunger and the Triumph of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa (paper)

Wyman, Carolyn -

Jello-O, A Biography: The History and Mystery of "America's Most Famous Dessert" (paper) [2001]

Y

Yee, Alfred - Shopping at Giant Foods: Chinese American Supermarkets in Northern California

Z

Zuckerman, Larry - The Potato: How The Humble Spud Rescued The Western World (hardcover) [1998]

 

 

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