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Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms
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3.82 avg rating — 1,390 ratings
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Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste
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3.97 avg rating — 15,992 ratings
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Vitamania: Our Obsessive Quest For Nutritional Perfection
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3.97 avg rating — 1,167 ratings
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Tasty: The Art and Science of What We Eat
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3.54 avg rating — 466 ratings
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The Heretic's Feast: A History of Vegetarianism
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3.76 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Defending Beef: The Case for Sustainable Meat Production
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4.16 avg rating — 443 ratings
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Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms
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3.84 avg rating — 404 ratings
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The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times
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3.56 avg rating — 193 ratings
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BREAD WINE CHOCOLATE
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3.75 avg rating — 770 ratings
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The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture
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3.66 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination
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3.83 avg rating — 271 ratings
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Ten Restaurants That Changed America
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3.77 avg rating — 1,431 ratings
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Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee
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3.69 avg rating — 394 ratings
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Spoonfuls of Honey: A Complete Guide to Honey's Flavours & Culinary Uses With Over 80 Recipes by Ellis, Hattie (2014) Hardcover
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4.39 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Tears of Re: Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt
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3.87 avg rating — 69 ratings
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The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us
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3.72 avg rating — 379 ratings
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The Essential Oyster: A Salty Appreciation of Taste and Temptation
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4.48 avg rating — 90 ratings
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A Geography of Oysters: The Connoisseur's Guide to Oyster Eating in North America
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4.27 avg rating — 441 ratings
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The Living Shore: Rediscovering a Lost World
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4.17 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food
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3.81 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Fried Chicken: An American Story
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3.82 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power
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4.33 avg rating — 175 ratings
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The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science
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4.31 avg rating — 26,248 ratings
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Packaged Pleasures: How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire
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3.61 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Ripe: The Search for the Perfect Tomato
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3.31 avg rating — 71 ratings
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The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit
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3.98 avg rating — 2,314 ratings
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A Burglar's Guide to the City
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3.36 avg rating — 3,654 ratings
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Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts, and Hooks Us
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3.59 avg rating — 1,116 ratings
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The World of Caffeine
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3.69 avg rating — 172 ratings
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On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
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4.46 avg rating — 16,364 ratings
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The Sugar Season: A Year in the Life of Maple Syrup, and One Family's Quest for the Sweetest Harvest
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3.20 avg rating — 206 ratings
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First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
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3.88 avg rating — 3,545 ratings
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Inventing Baby Food: Taste, Health, and the Industrialization of the American Diet (California Studies in Food and Culture Book 51)
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3.98 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics
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3.87 avg rating — 438 ratings
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Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda
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3.70 avg rating — 256 ratings
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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
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3.88 avg rating — 4,145 ratings
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Always Hungry?: Conquer Cravings, Retrain Your Fat Cells, and Lose Weight Permanently
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3.70 avg rating — 3,474 ratings
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The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour through America’s Food
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2.88 avg rating — 113 ratings
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The Pub and the People: A Worktown Study
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3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Drugs Without the Hot Air: Minimizing the Harms of Legal and Illegal Drugs
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4.43 avg rating — 2,163 ratings
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Another Person’s Poison: A History of Food Allergy
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3.62 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Creamy and Crunchy: An Informal History of Peanut Butter, the All-American Food
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3.40 avg rating — 201 ratings
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Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee—The Dark History of the Food Cheats
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3.83 avg rating — 674 ratings
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Sorting the Beef from the Bull: The Science of Food Fraud Forensics
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3.89 avg rating — 158 ratings
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The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
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3.86 avg rating — 8,199 ratings
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The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South
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3.83 avg rating — 2,075 ratings
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Butter: A Rich History
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3.86 avg rating — 1,140 ratings
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For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink
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3.78 avg rating — 4,418 ratings
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Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil
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3.78 avg rating — 4,168 ratings
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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
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4.05 avg rating — 9,801 ratings
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What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories
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3.27 avg rating — 4,874 ratings
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Massachusetts Cranberry Culture:: A History from Bog to Table
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3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
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3.90 avg rating — 7,415 ratings
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Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America
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3.78 avg rating — 3,525 ratings
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Fluff: The Sticky Sweet Story of an American Icon
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3.85 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats
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4.19 avg rating — 913 ratings
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Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States
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4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Feeding the Future: School Lunch Programs as Global Social Policy
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3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Acid Trip: Travels in the World of Vinegar: With Recipes from Leading Chefs, Insights from Top Producers, and Step-by-Step Instructions on How to Make Your Own
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3.78 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Secrets of Saffron: The Vagabond Life of the World's Most Seductive Spice
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3.10 avg rating — 67 ratings
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History of Cookbooks: From Kitchen to Page over Seven Centuries
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3.61 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Food on the Page: Cookbooks and American Culture
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3.92 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Encyclopedia of Pasta
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4.19 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Sauces & Shapes: Pasta the Italian Way
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4.15 avg rating — 74 ratings
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The Geometry of Pasta
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4.01 avg rating — 318 ratings
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Calories & Corsets: A History of Dieting Over 2,000 Years
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3.33 avg rating — 244 ratings
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The Political History of American Food Aid: An Uneasy Benevolence
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4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats
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3.95 avg rating — 3,738 ratings
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Combat-Ready Kitchen: How the U.S. Military Shapes the Way You Eat
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3.48 avg rating — 412 ratings
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The Tales Teeth Tell: Development, Evolution, Behavior
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4.16 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Evolution's Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins
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3.93 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time
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4.13 avg rating — 311 ratings
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The Most Perfect Thing: Inside and Outside a Bird's Egg
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The Missing Ingredient: The Curious Role of Time in Food and Flavour
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3.73 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals
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3.87 avg rating — 4,533 ratings
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The Curiosities of Food: Or the Dainties and Delicacies of Different Nations Obtained from the Animal Kingdom
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Jell-O Girls: A Family History
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3.12 avg rating — 4,055 ratings
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