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Culinary Arts: Food in Society and Culture

This is a guide to information resources in the field of culinary arts.

Reference Books on Food and Society

Food, Feasts, and Faith: an encyclopedia of food culture in world religions. 2 volumes.

Food, Feasts, and Faith

BL65.F65 F54 2017 2 volumes (ML Reference)

Books on Food, Culture, and Society

The Cultural Feast: an introduction to food and society

The Cultural Feast

TX 353 .C85 2003 (ML)

The Social Archaeology of Food: thinking about eating from prehistory to the present

The Social Archaeology of Food:

GN799.F6 H37 2017 (ML)

Elegant Eating : four hundred years of dining in style

Elegant Eating

TX881 .E44 2002 (ML)

Death Warmed Over: funeral food, rituals, and customs from around the world

Death Warmed Over:

TX725.A1 R637 2004 (ML)

Foods of the Americas : native recipes and traditions

Foods of the Americas

TX715 .D588 2004 (ML)

No Foreign Food: the American diet in time and place

No Foreign Food

TX360.U6 P55 1998 (ML)

Kitchen Culture in America: popular representations of food, gender, and race

Kitchen Culture in America

GT2853.U5 K57 2001 (ML)

Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?: American women and the kitchen in the twentieth century

Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?

TX649.A1 M38 2000 (ML)

All Stirred Up: suffrage cookbooks, food, and the battle for women's right to vote

All Stirred Up

JF851 .K86 2020 (CM,ML,WO)

Kosher USA: how coke bacame kosher and other tales of modern food

Kosher USA

BM 710 .H675 2016 (ML)

The Great Kosher Meat War Of 1902: immigrant housewives and the riots that shook New York City

The Great Kosher Meat War Of 1902

HD9418 .N5 S45 2020 (ML)

Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish foodways in the age of migration

Hungering for America

GT2853.U5 D54 2001 (CM,ML,WO)

The Color of Food : stories of race, resilience and farming

The Color of Food

HD1476.U5 B68 2015 (ML)

In Meat We Trust: an unexpected history of carnivore America

In Meat We Trust:

TX 371 .O39 2013 (ML)

Watching What We Eat: the evolution of television cooking shows

Watching What We Eat

PN1992.8.C67 C65 2009 (ML)

The Story of Sushi: an unlikely saga of raw fish and rice

The Story of Sushi:

TX 747 .C772 2008 (ML)

Sugar: a Bitterweet History

Sugar: a Bitterweet History

GT 2869 .A22 2009 (ML)

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A Few Subject Headings

Fast Food Restaurants

Food law

Food habits

food -- social aspects

television cooking shows

sugar -- social aspects

food -- religious aspects

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food and ritual

food and culture

foodways

 

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