food history

Cookbooks and Contagion: Recipes for Caring from Fannie Farmer

Cookbooks and Contagion: Recipes for Caring from Fannie Farmer

Cookbooks are rarely read as political or even narrative texts. However, alongside the recipes and lists of ingredients is often rich information about the ideologies and social structures that the foods are consumed within.

Foodie Folklore: Josh Chetwynd’s ‘How the Hot Dog Found its Bun’

The Food of a Younger Land by Mark Kurlansky

Fresh: A Perishable History by Susanne Freidberg

My Kitchen Wars by Betty Fussell