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The Food Historian

I'm a food historian and museum professional and this little bookshop not only supports my website and writing, it also allows me to share all the wonderful food history resources I've amassed over the years. I've organized the lists by topic, so think of it as the best bibliography you'll ever read. 

Food in World War I
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Food Will Win the War: Minnesota Crops, Cook, and Conservation During World War I
Sowing the Seeds of Victory: American Gardening Programs of World War I
Modern Food, Moral Food: Self-Control, Science, and the Rise of Modern American Eating in the Early Twentieth Century
Fruits of Victory: The Woman's Land Army of America in the Great War
City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America
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Food in the Progressive Era
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Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet Volume 7
Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century Volume 24 (First Edition, with a New Afterword)
The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentiethcentury
How the Other Half Ate: A History of Working-Class Meals at the Turn of the Century Volume 48
97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement
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Ingredient Histories
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Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato
The Truth about Baked Beans: An Edible History of New England
Baking Powder Wars: The Cutthroat Food Fight That Revolutionized Cooking
Raising Steaks the Life and Times of American Beef
Sugar: A Global History
Potato: A Global History
Pure Ketchup: A History of America's National Condiment with Recipes
Peanuts: The Illustrious History of the Goober Pea
The Turkey: An American Story
The Story of Corn
Salt: A World History
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
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Postwar Food
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Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America
Julia Child: A Life
Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America Volume 8 (Revised)
School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program
Inventing Baby Food: Taste, Health, and the Industrialization of the American Diet Volume 51
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Food Memoirs
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My Kitchen Wars: A Memoir
My Life in France
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
Remembrance of Things Paris: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet
Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table
Eating My Words: An Appetite for Life
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Food in World War II
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On the Farm Front: The Women's Land Army in World War II
Good Girls, Good Food, Good Fun: The Story of USO Hostesses during World War II
Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food
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Historic Cookbooks, Women, and Food Writing
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Women in the Kitchen: Twelve Essential Cookbook Writers Who Defined the Way We Eat, from 1661 to Today
Food on the Page: Cookbooks and American Culture
All Stirred Up: Suffrage Cookbooks, Food, and the Battle for Women's Right to Vote
What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories
Finding Betty Crocker: The Secret Life of America's First Lady of Food
Food Section: Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community
Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives Through the Cookbooks They Wrote
Stand Facing the Stove: The Story of the Women Who Gave America the Joy of Cooking
The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks
The Blue Grass Cook Book
A Quaker Woman's Cookbook: The Domestic Cookery of Elizabeth Ellicott Lea
A History of Cookbooks: From Kitchen to Page Over Seven Centuries Volume 64
The Virginia Housewife: Or, Methodical Cook: A Facsimile of an Authentic Early American Cookbook (Revised)
Old Southern Cookery: Mary Randolph's Recipes from America's First Regional Cookbook Adapted for Today's Kitchen
Fannie Farmer 1896 Cook Book: The Boston Cooking School
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American Food in the 19th Century
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Food in the Civil War Era: The North
A Selection of Modernized Recipes from Food in the Civil War: The North
Food in the American Gilded Age
A Taste for War: The Culinary History of the Blue and the Gray
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Food in the Great Depression
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My Work Is That of Conservation: An Environmental Biography of George Washington Carver
Breadlines Knee-Deep in Wheat: Food Assistance in the Great Depression Volume 53 (Updated, Expanded)
A Square Meal
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American Immigrant Foodways
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Chop Suey, USA: The Story of Chinese Food in America
Chow Chop Suey: Food and the Chinese American Journey
As American as Shoofly Pie: The Foodlore and Fakelore of Pennsylvania Dutch Cuisine
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