Food Studies


The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (Volume 3) (California Studies in Food and Culture)
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took On the Food Industry
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Eating Animals
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans
Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health
Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food
Taste of Power: Food and American Identities (California Studies in Food and Culture) (Volume 59)
Taste of Power by Katharina VesterCarnal Appetites by Elspeth ProbynThe Alice B. Toklas Cookbook by Alice B. ToklasThe Vegan Studies Project by Laura      WrightThe Art of Gay Cooking by Daniel Isengart
Queer Food Studies
12 books — 4 voters
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanBest Recipes from Eastern Europe by Sahara SandersSlim and Healthy You by Sahara SandersIn Defense of Food by Michael PollanSalt Sugar Fat by Michael  Moss
Food Studies Book List
125 books — 17 voters

Food is packed with meaning, as well as vitamins, carbohydrates and protein. It satisfies needs beyond those of the body and the pocketbook. Food is a medium to build families, religious communities, ethnic boundaries and a consciousness of history.
Richard R. Wilk, Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists

As geographic place lost its power to guarantee quality, modern corporate brands began to appear, at first linked to the personal names of the manufacturers, who thereby offered their reputation, their face as it were, to establish a bond of trust with consumers.
Richard R. Wilk, Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists

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This group is for people who love learning how to use spices.
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Food Studies: the scholarship of what and how we eat Searching for scholarship on food and literature, it might seem that few texts exist and many re…more
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