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A History of Cookbooks: From Kitchen to Page over Seven Centuries by Henry Notaker
Category: Cook Books | Series: California Studies in Food and Culture
A History of Cookbooks provides a sweeping literary and historical overview of the cookbook genre, exploring its development as a part of food culture beginning in the Late Middle Ages. Studying cookbooks from various Western cultures and languages, Henry Notaker traces the transformation of recipes fro ...Show more
Becoming Salmon - Aquaculture and the Domestication of a Fish by Marianne Elisabeth Lien
Category: Nature | Series: California Studies in Food and Culture Ser.
Becoming Salmon is the first ethnographic account of salmon aquaculture, the most recent turn in the human history of animal domestication. In this careful and nuanced study, Marianne Elisabeth Lien explores how the growth of marine domestication has blurred traditional distinctions between fish and ani ...Show more
Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History by Rachel Laudan
Category: Food and Drink | Series: California Studies in Food and Culture
Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world's great cuisines from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago, to the present in this superbly researched book. Probing beneath the apparent confusion of dozens of cuisines to reveal the underlying simplicity ...Show more
Encyclopedia of Pasta by Oretta Zanini De Vita
Category: Food and Drink | Series: California Studies in Food and Culture
Spaghetti, gnocchi, tagliatellea, ravioli, vincisgrassi, strascinati - pasta in its myriad forms has been a staple of the Mediterranean diet longer than bread. This beautiful volume is the first book to provide a complete history of pasta in Italy, telling its long story via the extravagant variety of s ...Show more
Encyclopedia of Pasta by Oretta Zanini De Vita; Maureen Fant; Carol Field
Category: Cook Books | Series: California Studies in Food and Culture Ser.
Spaghetti, gnocchi, tagliatellea, ravioli, vincisgrassi, strascinati--pasta in its myriad forms has been a staple of the Mediterranean diet longer than bread. This beautiful volume is the first book to provide a complete history of pasta in Italy, telling its long story via the extravagant variety of sh ...Show more
Food Politics by Marion Nestle
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: California Studies in Food and Culture Ser.
We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food dollars. In this engrossing expos , Marion Nestle goes behind the scenes to reveal how the competition really works and how it affects our health. The abundance of food in the United States--enough calories to ...Show more
Hoptopia: A World of Agriculture and Beer in Oregonàs Willamette Valley by Peter Adam Kopp
Category: Beer, Wine & Spirits | Series: California Studies in Food and Culture
The contents of your pint glass have a much richer history than you could have imagined. Through the story of the hop, Hoptopia connects twenty-first century beer drinkers to lands and histories that have been forgotten in an era of industrial food production. The craft beer revolution of the late twent ...Show more
Popes, Peasants, and Shepherds : Recipes and Lore from Rome and Lazio by Ernesto (FRW) Maureen B. (TRN); Di Renzo Oretta; Fant Zanini De Vita
Category: Food and Drink | Series: California Studies in Food and Culture
The food of Rome and its region, Lazio, is redolent of herbs, olive oil, ricotta, lamb, and pork. It is the food of ordinary, frugal people, yet it is a very modern cuisine in that it gives pride of place to the essential flavors of its ingredients. In this only English-language book to encompass the en ...Show more
Slow Cooked - An Unexpected Life in Food Politics by Marion Nestle
Category: Biography/Memoirs | Series: California Studies in Food and Culture Ser.
Marion Nestle reflects on her late-in-life career as a world-renowned food-politics expert, public-health advocate, and a founder of the field of food studies after facing decades of low expectations. In this engrossing memoir, Marion Nestle reflects on how she achieved late-in-life success as a leadin ...Show more
Ways of Eating: Exploring Food through History and Culture by Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft, Merry White
Category: Social Science | Series: California Studies in Food and Culture Ser.
What we learn when an anthropologist and a historian talk about food. From the origins of agriculture to contemporary debates over culinary authenticity, Ways of Eating introduces readers to world food history and food anthropology. Through engaging stories and historical deep dives, Benjamin A. Wurga ...Show more
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