Book Reviews
- Andy Bielenberg: Irish Flour Milling
A History 600-2000
- Alan Davidson: The Oxford Companion to Food*
- a gloriously erudite encyclopedia of biology, culture, history
- Keith Farrer: To Feed a Nation
A history of Australian food science and technology
- Andrea Gaynor: Harvest of the Suburbs
An Environmental History of Growing Food in Australian Cities
- D.N. Jha: The Myth of the Holy Cow
- the origins of cow veneration and vegetarianism in India
- Dan Koeppel: Banana
The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
- Julie J. Lesink: Edible Insects and Human Evolution
- ethnography, primatology, paleontology, nutrition, ...
- Alan Levinovitz: The Gluten Lie
And Other Myths about What you Eat
- James C. McCann: Maize and Grace
Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop 1500-2000
- Cormac Ó Gráda: Famine: A Short History
- demography and political, economic and social history
- John Reader: The Untold History of the Potato
- social history, agriculture, food
- A. Zee: Swallowing Clouds*
A Playful Journey through Chinese Culture, Language, and Cuisine
See also:
agriculture
I'm not really into cooking, so my reading here is more oriented towards the history and sociology of food.