Reaktion Books has an entire book series called Edible dedicated to monograph long treatments of the histories of individual foods. What single food history books am I missing? Other books that teach us about how the world works and has changed through the lens of a single food include: chicken, the potato, spices, tomatoes, bananas, and booze. In fact, it is Cod that really kicked of the genre of the historical food biography. We have read and loved all of Kurlansky’s previous deep dives into the history, biology, economics, politics, genetics, and literature of specific foods.Īmongst the Kurlansky classics include books on Salt, Oysters, and Cod. There are those amongst us that are guaranteed readers of Mark Kurlansky’s latest book Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas. Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas by Mark Kurlansky
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