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Food Studies Books
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 210,433 ratings — published 2006
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (Volume 3) (California Studies in Food and Culture)
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avg rating 3.94 — 4,685 ratings — published 2002
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as food-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 113,147 ratings — published 2007
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 119,502 ratings — published 2008
Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took On the Food Industry (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 88 ratings — published 1990
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 206,519 ratings — published 2001
Eating Animals (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 80,724 ratings — published 2009
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 2,815 ratings — published 1985
The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 4,479 ratings — published 1990
We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.61 — 89 ratings — published 1998
Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 105 ratings — published 2013
Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 83 ratings — published 2012
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 378,231 ratings — published 2000
The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 7,310 ratings — published 2014
Taste of Power: Food and American Identities (California Studies in Food and Culture) (Volume 59)
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avg rating 4.04 — 24 ratings — published 2015
Food and Femininity (Contemporary Food Studies: Economy, Culture and Politics)
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avg rating 3.85 — 27 ratings — published 2015
Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 294 ratings — published 2011
Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 2,585 ratings — published 2007
From Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies: Critical Perspectives on Women and Food (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 47 ratings — published 2005
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 48,790 ratings — published 2008
Food and Culture: A Reader (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 231 ratings — published 1997
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as food-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 59,438 ratings — published 2001
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as food-studies)
avg rating 3.94 — 15,148 ratings — published 2020
Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry (California Studies in Food and Culture) (Volume 68)
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avg rating 3.95 — 42 ratings — published
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 8,147 ratings — published 2015
Discriminating Taste: How Class Anxiety Created the American Food Revolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 46 ratings — published
The Potlikker Papers (Audio CD)
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avg rating 3.82 — 2,042 ratings — published 2017
Taste, Memory: Forgotten Foods, Lost Flavors, and Why They Matter (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 141 ratings — published 2012
Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.95 — 370 ratings — published 2013
Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 155 ratings — published 1991
The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.63 — 3,706 ratings — published 2006
Free for All: Fixing School Food in America (California Studies in Food and Culture, 28)
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avg rating 3.77 — 217 ratings — published 2009
Diet for a Small Planet: The Book That Started a Revolution in the Way Americans Eat (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 6,203 ratings — published 1971
Tastes of Paradise (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 1,360 ratings — published 1980
What to Eat (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 5,968 ratings — published 2006
Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 198 ratings — published 2019
Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement (Justice, Power, and Politics)
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avg rating 4.36 — 401 ratings — published 2018
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.67 — 523 ratings — published
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 2,473 ratings — published 2013
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South (ebook)
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avg rating 3.87 — 8,140 ratings — published 2017
Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance Between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups (Food, Health, and the Environment)
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avg rating 4.02 — 183 ratings — published
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 10,327 ratings — published 2012
Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 217 ratings — published 1998
How the Other Half Ate: A History of Working-Class Meals at the Turn of the Century (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.67 — 76 ratings — published 2014
Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 174 ratings — published 2006
The Art of Eating (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 6,164 ratings — published 1954
American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do About It)
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avg rating 3.82 — 674 ratings — published 2010
A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 33,817 ratings — published 2005
Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 3,881 ratings — published 2007
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 4,571 ratings — published 2011
“Globalisation creates a world where causes are remote form effects, and the connections between them are often hidden or obscure.”
― Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists
― Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists
“I find it fascinating that this bottle is so cosmopolitan, a true multicultural brew, but it is so quiet about it.”
― Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists
― Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists










