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Menus that Made History: Over 2000 years of menus from Ancient Egyptian food for the afterlife to Elvis Presley's wedding breakfast by Vincent Franklin, Alex Johnson

Menus that Made History: Over 2000 years of menus from Ancient Egyptian food for the afterlife to Elvis Presley's wedding breakfast

Vincent Franklin, Alex Johnson

missing page info • digital • 2019 user-added

nonfiction food and drink history informative lighthearted medium-paced
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson

Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat

Bee Wilson

327 pages • hardcover • 2012

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories by Laura Shapiro

What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories

Laura Shapiro

320 pages • paperback • 2017

nonfiction biography food and drink history informative medium-paced
A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression: A James Beard Award Winner by Jane Ziegelman

A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression: A James Beard Award Winner

Jane Ziegelman

341 pages • digital • 2016

nonfiction
The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Deborah Blum

The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Deborah Blum

352 pages • paperback • 2018

nonfiction biography history politics science informative medium-paced
The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats by Daniel Stone

The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

Daniel Stone

9 hours, 52 minutes • audio • 2018 user-added

nonfiction biography food and drink history adventurous informative medium-paced
The Book Lover's Cookbook: Recipes Inspired by Celebrated Works of Literature, and the Passages That Feature Them by Janet Jensen, Shaunda Kennedy Wenger

The Book Lover's Cookbook: Recipes Inspired by Celebrated Works of Literature, and the Passages That Feature Them

Janet Jensen, Shaunda Kennedy Wenger

368 pages • paperback • 2003

nonfiction cookbook informative medium-paced
Food Fights & Culture Wars: A Secret History of Taste by Tom Nealon

Food Fights & Culture Wars: A Secret History of Taste

Tom Nealon

224 pages • hardcover • 2017

nonfiction history informative fast-paced
Salt, Pepper, Season, Spice: All the Flavors of the World by Jacques Pasquet

Salt, Pepper, Season, Spice: All the Flavors of the World

Jacques Pasquet

48 pages • digital • 2020

nonfiction childrens food and drink history middle grade
How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables by Rebecca Rupp

How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables

Rebecca Rupp

384 pages • 2011

nonfiction history science informative lighthearted medium-paced