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High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America
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Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America
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3.67 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Anything That Moves: Renegade Chefs, Fearless Eaters, and the Making of a New American Food Culture
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3.44 avg rating — 996 ratings
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A Short History of the American Stomach
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2.98 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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3.93 avg rating — 51,768 ratings
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Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil
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3.77 avg rating — 4,134 ratings
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Devoured: From Chicken Wings to Kale Smoothies--How What We Eat Defines Who We Are
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3.49 avg rating — 809 ratings
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Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat
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3.94 avg rating — 1,080 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 — 671 ratings
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The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation
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3.63 avg rating — 3,706 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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4.19 avg rating — 210,530 ratings
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Hungry Ghosts #1
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3.39 avg rating — 886 ratings
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Food Fights & Culture Wars: A Secret History of Taste
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3.37 avg rating — 277 ratings
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In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Food
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3.66 avg rating — 1,304 ratings
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The Primal Cheeseburger: A Generous Helping of Food History Served Up on a Bun
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3.24 avg rating — 25 ratings
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A Curious History of Food and Drink
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3.21 avg rating — 198 ratings
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What the Great Ate: A Curious History of Food and Fame
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3.32 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated Into What America Eats
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3.38 avg rating — 2,333 ratings
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The Underground Culinary Tour: How the New Metrics of Today's Top Restaurants Are Transforming How America Eats
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3.60 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Change Comes to Dinner: How Vertical Farmers, Urban Growers, and Other Innovators Are Revolutionizing How America Eats
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3.83 avg rating — 111 ratings
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America Eats!: On the Road with the WPA - the Fish Fries, Box Supper Socials, and Chitlin Feasts That Define Real American Food
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3.44 avg rating — 169 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 — 3,695 ratings
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The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food—Before the National Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When the Nation's Food Was Seasonal
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3.47 avg rating — 2,710 ratings
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Horsemen of the Esophagus: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream
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3.41 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Salt: A World History
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3.75 avg rating — 76,915 ratings
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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3.75 avg rating — 206,533 ratings
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The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
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3.93 avg rating — 5,024 ratings
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Fear of Food: A History of Why We Worry about What We Eat
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3.67 avg rating — 238 ratings
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Snacks: A Canadian Food History
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3.33 avg rating — 69 ratings
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On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
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4.46 avg rating — 16,277 ratings
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Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States
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3.47 avg rating — 741 ratings
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Jersey Shore Food History: Victorian Feasts to Boardwalk Treats
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3.69 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America (California Studies in Food and Culture, 8)
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3.80 avg rating — 195 ratings
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Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food
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3.75 avg rating — 251 ratings
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Death in the Pot: The Impact of Food Poisoning on History
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3.42 avg rating — 92 ratings
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The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets
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3.36 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The Kitchen as Laboratory: Reflections on the Science of Food and Cooking
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3.91 avg rating — 138 ratings
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A Revolution In Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America
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3.93 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Eat Up!: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
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4.11 avg rating — 3,828 ratings
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Milk! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
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3.62 avg rating — 1,900 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 — 15,792 ratings
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Alice Waters and Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution
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3.87 avg rating — 3,476 ratings
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A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
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4.11 avg rating — 31,278 ratings
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How to Be a Conscious Eater: Making Food Choices That Are Good for You, Others, and the Planet
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3.75 avg rating — 1,124 ratings
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Real Food / Fake Food: Why You Don’t Know What You’re Eating & What You Can Do About It
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3.84 avg rating — 3,919 ratings
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Never Out of Season: How Having the Food We Want When We Want It Threatens Our Food Supply and Our Future
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3.94 avg rating — 571 ratings
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Eating Promiscuously: Adventures in the Future of Food
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3.51 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Food Fight: GMOs and the Future of the American Diet
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3.89 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America
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3.78 avg rating — 3,464 ratings
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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
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4.01 avg rating — 32,900 ratings
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Freegans: Diving into the Wealth of Food Waste in America
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3.91 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Modified: GMOs and the Threat to Our Food, Our Land, Our Future
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3.92 avg rating — 143 ratings
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The Ethical Carnivore: My Year Killing to Eat
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4.15 avg rating — 234 ratings
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The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food
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4.28 avg rating — 7,319 ratings
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Bourbon Empire: The Past and Future of America's Whiskey
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3.97 avg rating — 1,616 ratings
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Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America
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4.09 avg rating — 743 ratings
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The Art of Eating
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4.32 avg rating — 6,165 ratings
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The Gastronomical Me
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4.16 avg rating — 4,264 ratings
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Food, Field to Fork: How to Grow Sustainably, Shop Wisely, Cook Nutritiously, and Eat Deliciously
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4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches from the Future of Food
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3.50 avg rating — 161 ratings
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The Tastemakers: Why We're Crazy for Cupcakes but Fed Up with Fondue
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3.58 avg rating — 997 ratings
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The Thousand Dollar Dinner: America's First Great Cookery Challenge
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3.71 avg rating — 87 ratings
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This Is What You Just Put in Your Mouth?: From Eggnog to Beef Jerky, the Surprising Secrets
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3.46 avg rating — 327 ratings
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The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu
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3.75 avg rating — 2,436 ratings
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The Gospel of Food: Everything You Think You Know About Food Is Wrong
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3.32 avg rating — 383 ratings
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Foodprints
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3.71 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly
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3.69 avg rating — 665 ratings
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Beeronomics: How Beer Explains the World
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3.72 avg rating — 114 ratings
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How We Eat with Our Eyes and Think with Our Stomachs: The Hidden Influences That Shape Your Eating Habits
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3.37 avg rating — 505 ratings
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Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
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3.95 avg rating — 4,573 ratings
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The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World's Most Expensive Fungus
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3.74 avg rating — 1,587 ratings
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How to Taste: The Curious Cooks Handbook to Seasoning and Balance, from Umami to Acid and Beyond with Recipes
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4.22 avg rating — 314 ratings
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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4.07 avg rating — 119,547 ratings
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How to Read a French Fry: And Other Stories of Intriguing Kitchen Science
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3.74 avg rating — 534 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 — 157 ratings
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Serious Pig: An American Cook in Search of His Roots
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4.33 avg rating — 233 ratings
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Real Food: What to Eat and Why
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4.04 avg rating — 4,887 ratings
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From Hardtack to Home Fries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals
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3.89 avg rating — 222 ratings
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Gastroanomalies: Questionable Culinary Creations from the Golden Age of American Cookery
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3.95 avg rating — 427 ratings
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The World According to Monsanto: Pollution, Corruption, and the Control of the World's Food Supply
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4.18 avg rating — 1,104 ratings
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Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors
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3.92 avg rating — 1,257 ratings
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Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
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3.99 avg rating — 48,816 ratings
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An Edible History of Humanity
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3.77 avg rating — 6,217 ratings
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Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We Need to Get It Back
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3.72 avg rating — 418 ratings
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Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
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3.69 avg rating — 3,062 ratings
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The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century
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3.67 avg rating — 779 ratings
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Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
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3.95 avg rating — 22,553 ratings
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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3.92 avg rating — 25,190 ratings
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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
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3.81 avg rating — 5,396 ratings
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Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System
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3.92 avg rating — 2,586 ratings
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Edible Memory: The Lure of Heirloom Tomatoes and Other Forgotten Foods
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3.37 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South
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3.82 avg rating — 2,046 ratings
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Cheddar: A Journey to the Heart of America's Most Iconic Cheese
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3.83 avg rating — 109 ratings
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The True History of Chocolate
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3.79 avg rating — 1,548 ratings
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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4.19 avg rating — 379,484 ratings
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The Year of Eating Dangerously: A Global Adventure in Search of Culinary Extremes
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3.11 avg rating — 451 ratings
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What to Eat
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The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
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4.11 avg rating — 3,085 ratings
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Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda
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Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America
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3.82 avg rating — 975 ratings
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