[LM_NET] HIT: excellent non-fiction for adults / food history

[Ann Marie Gordon <agordon@LIVONIACSD.ORG>]

Hi, folks.

My original question:  I was looking for non-fiction on cooking, food & drink, and 
for any recommendations anyone might have on excellent adult non-fiction.  

The replies:
Thanks to Donna who reminded me about ALA’s Notable books for adults: go to 
www.ala.org.  Choose Awards and Scholarships at the top, and then choose Books and 
Media Awards in the left frame, and then scroll down to “Notable Books for 
Adults.”

Several people recommended David McCullough and Bill Bryson as superb non-fiction 
writers.  

Non-fiction on Food & Drink

The Alcoholic Republic by W. J. Rorabaugh (OUP, 1979).  
Country Kitchen 1850 / Americana Review
Early American Life (December 1975): Of Drinks and Drinkers / by Clifford Lindsey 
Alderman, pp. 87-93
The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars by Joël 
Glenn Brenner
Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Cookery and Ceremony," c1976 
Fast Food Nation / Eric Schlosser.
Food and Drink in Britain: from the Stone Age to the 19th Century," c1991 
Food in History, c1971.  
Guns, Germs, and Steel / Jared Diamond
Junk Food, Fast Food, Health Food," c1980
The Little House Cookbook / Barbara M. Walker
Nectar & Ambrosia: an Encyclopedia of Food in World Mythology," c2000.  
A  Social History of Bourbon by Gerald Carson (Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1963)
What’s Cooking: The History of American Food / Sylvia Whitman

There is a series of books from Greenwood press called Food Culture around the 
world.
There are 11  books in the series covering China, Great Britain, India, Italy, 
Japan, Mexico, Russia and Central Asia, South America, Spain, Sub-Saharan Africa, 
Near East, Middle East and Northern Africa.

Thanks for all the help!



Anne-Marie Gordon
Library Media Specialist
Livonia Primary School
Livonia, NY
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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
--Groucho Marx

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