30 Best

Food History Books

1

The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

2

First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

3

The Tastemakers: Why We're Crazy for Cupcakes but Fed Up with Fondue

4

The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South

5

Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat

6

The Brewer's Tale: A History of the World According to Beer

7

Ten Restaurants That Changed America

8

Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America

9

A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression

10

The French Chef in America: Julia Child's Second Act

11

Dinner with Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table

12

The Hungry Empire: How Britain’s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World

13

You and I Eat the Same: On the Countless Ways Food and Cooking Connect Us to One Another

14

Feasts and Fasts: A History of Food in India

15

Salt: A World History

16

An Edible History of Humanity

17

Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat

18

Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World

19

Spice: The History of a Temptation

20

Food in History

21

In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Food

22

Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages

23

Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food

24

Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America

25

Food: A Culinary History from Antiquity to the Present (European Perspectives)

26

Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee—The Dark History of the Food Cheats

27

Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World

28

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

29

A History of the World in 6 Glasses