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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as food-studies)
avg rating 4.19 — 212,058 ratings — published 2006
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (Volume 3) (California Studies in Food and Culture)
by (shelved 14 times as food-studies)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,729 ratings — published 2002
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as food-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 114,225 ratings — published 2007
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as food-studies)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,919 ratings — published 2001
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as food-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 120,529 ratings — published 2008
Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took On the Food Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as food-studies)
avg rating 3.87 — 87 ratings — published 1990
Eating Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as food-studies)
avg rating 4.21 — 81,455 ratings — published 2009
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as food-studies)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,883 ratings — published 1985
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as food-studies)
avg rating 4.19 — 399,325 ratings — published 2000
The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as food-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,844 ratings — published 1990
We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as food-studies)
avg rating 3.59 — 94 ratings — published 1998
Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as food-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 106 ratings — published 2013
Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as food-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 84 ratings — published 2012
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as food-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,395 ratings — published 2001
The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South (Audio CD)
by (shelved 6 times as food-studies)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,095 ratings — published 2017
The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as food-studies)
avg rating 4.28 — 7,428 ratings — published 2014
A Taste of Power: Food and American Identities (California Studies in Food and Culture) (Volume 59)
by (shelved 6 times as food-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 24 ratings — published 2015
Food and Femininity (Contemporary Food Studies: Economy, Culture and Politics)
by (shelved 6 times as food-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 28 ratings — published 2015
Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as food-studies)
avg rating 3.95 — 378 ratings — published 2013
Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as food-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 299 ratings — published 2011
Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as food-studies)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,598 ratings — published 2007
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as food-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 49,410 ratings — published 2008
Food and Culture: A Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as food-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 232 ratings — published 1997
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as food-studies)
avg rating 3.94 — 15,894 ratings — published 2020
Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry (California Studies in Food and Culture) (Volume 68)
by (shelved 5 times as food-studies)
avg rating 3.95 — 42 ratings — published
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as food-studies)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,679 ratings — published 2015
Discriminating Taste: How Class Anxiety Created the American Food Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as food-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 46 ratings — published
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as food-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,606 ratings — published 2012
Taste, Memory: Forgotten Foods, Lost Flavors, and Why They Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as food-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 140 ratings — published 2012
Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as food-studies)
avg rating 4.32 — 176 ratings — published 2006
A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as food-studies)
avg rating 3.81 — 34,961 ratings — published 2005
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as food-studies)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,630 ratings — published 2011
Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as food-studies)
avg rating 3.95 — 157 ratings — published 1991
The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as food-studies)
avg rating 3.63 — 3,713 ratings — published 2006
From Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies: Critical Perspectives on Women and Food (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as food-studies)
avg rating 3.74 — 47 ratings — published 2005
Free for All: Fixing School Food in America (California Studies in Food and Culture, 28)
by (shelved 5 times as food-studies)
avg rating 3.78 — 219 ratings — published 2009
Diet for a Small Planet: The Book That Started a Revolution in the Way Americans Eat (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as food-studies)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,238 ratings — published 1971
Tastes of Paradise (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as food-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,400 ratings — published 1980
What to Eat (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as food-studies)
avg rating 4.03 — 5,987 ratings — published 2006
The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as food-studies)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,859 ratings — published 2019
Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as food-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 213 ratings — published 2019
Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement (Justice, Power, and Politics)
by (shelved 4 times as food-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 415 ratings — published 2018
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as food-studies)
avg rating 4.66 — 533 ratings — published
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as food-studies)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,592 ratings — published 2013
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as food-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,230 ratings — published 2017
Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance Between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups (Food, Health, and the Environment)
by (shelved 4 times as food-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 186 ratings — published
Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as food-studies)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,820 ratings — published 2016
Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as food-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 220 ratings — published 1998
How the Other Half Ate: A History of Working-Class Meals at the Turn of the Century (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as food-studies)
avg rating 3.71 — 79 ratings — published 2014
The Art of Eating (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as food-studies)
avg rating 4.32 — 6,196 ratings — published 1954
“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.”
― Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists
― Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists
“Food is also the stuff of international politics, and the power of one country to control the daily bread of another has always been politically important.”
― Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists
― Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists