food

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
• 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.