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forestofglorySo as some one who studies food and also history I read a fair amount of books about food history, both for classes and for fun. So I thought I share a few that I really enjoyed.
Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America by Laura Shapiro This about cooking in the US in the 1950's and it really broadened my views of that time period, and introduced me to the fascinating life of Poppy Canon.
White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf by Aaron Bobrow-Strain This book uses bread to look at the history of food movements in the US, and to talk about how those movements have interacted with various forms of social injustice, and how we can do better.
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon This is an amazing book. It is also 600 pages long and written in a dense academic style. Still amazing. The book is a history of Chicago and its hinterland. As such it deals with transporting natural resources, but also how being a place of transit made Chicago the city that it is, an how different types of transit affected the way we think about those resources.
Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food by Warren Belasco This is what it says on the tin. Belasco starts with Malthus and goes forward form there. He also has second about food in SF, in which uses a inclusive list of books (but beware of spoilers.)
Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America by Laura Shapiro This about cooking in the US in the 1950's and it really broadened my views of that time period, and introduced me to the fascinating life of Poppy Canon.
White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf by Aaron Bobrow-Strain This book uses bread to look at the history of food movements in the US, and to talk about how those movements have interacted with various forms of social injustice, and how we can do better.
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon This is an amazing book. It is also 600 pages long and written in a dense academic style. Still amazing. The book is a history of Chicago and its hinterland. As such it deals with transporting natural resources, but also how being a place of transit made Chicago the city that it is, an how different types of transit affected the way we think about those resources.
Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food by Warren Belasco This is what it says on the tin. Belasco starts with Malthus and goes forward form there. He also has second about food in SF, in which uses a inclusive list of books (but beware of spoilers.)
