History
Spade, Skirrets and Parsnip
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The couch potato is an idler, the cabbage-head a dunce, Swede-bashers are stupid and you may as well give up life if you become a vegetable.
Buon Appetito, Your Holiness
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That many of the Popes throughout the two millennia of Christianity lived and ate well is common knowledge.
Salt : A World History
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New in paper. Homer called salt divine. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods.
From Hardtack to Home Fries
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Barbara Haber, one of America's most respected authorities on the history of food, has spent years excavating fascinating stories of the ways in which meals cooked and served by women have shaped American history.
Vegetarianism : A History
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Colin Spencer provides an in-depth account of vegetarianism.
Travels with a Medieval Queen
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The author of Bitter Almonds presents an historical work about Constance of Hauteville, like her, an expatriate and mother of a bicultural family.
Perfection Salad
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Meticulous, often humorous, social history about American women food crusaders at the turn of the century and the influential culinary style they engineered. Not a cookbook.
Taste Of America
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John & Karen Hess rocked the food establishment when they overturned the conventional wisdom about the history of American food, cooking & cookbooks. 384 pgs.
Choice Cuts
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New in paper! From the James Beard Award-winning author of Cod, comes a lively, insightful anthology of food writing from ancient to contemporary writers, with an introduction by the author.
Tea at the Blue Lantern Inn
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Back in the early 20th century, eating out in America was a rough-and-tumble experience, like eating in the tail end of the saloon. The food was bad, the conditions were unclean, and the whole experience was considered unsuitable for women and children.