 | Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Meal by Margaret Visser
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $5.57 |
 | O Taste and See: Food Poems (Harmony (Bottom Dog Press))
Buy used from: $6.41 |
 | Like Water for Chocolate
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $4.99 Not to be missed is the novel that inspired the film: Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies by Laura Esquivel
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 | Alimentum: The Literature of Food by Issue One
Buy used from: $6.99 This brand-new literary journal also has its own website: http://alimentumjournal.com
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 | Best Food Writing 2006
Buy new: $12.44 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Spice: The History of a Temptation by Jack Turner
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $5.88 |
 | Will Write for Food: The Complete Guide to Writing Cookbooks, Restaurant Reviews, Articles, Memoir, Fiction and More by Dianne Jacob
Buy new: $11.48 / Used from: $7.55 |
 | Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay by William W. Warner
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $0.01 As a transplant to Baltimore, no list would be complete without mention of the blue crab its role in Maryland's history.
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 | Food in History by Reay Tannahill
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $7.42 |
 | Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America by Jessamyn Neuhaus
Buy new: $38.10 / Used from: $23.00 |
 | A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $3.99 |
 | Babette's Feast
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $6.63 An austere, moving tale of one woman and one meal.
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 | Tortilla Soup
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.09 A delightful American adaptation of Eat, Drink, Man Woman
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 | The Food of the Gods by H. G. Wells
Buy used from: $39.17 One of Wells' lesser-known works, this century-old novel speaks to very current themes: the disruption of the ecological balance, oppression and inequality in human society, and the destructive potential of technology--all stemming from efforts to make better food. Available free in the public domain from Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11696
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 | What to Eat by Marion Nestle
Buy new: $16.80 / Used from: $3.65 |
 | Eat, Drink, and Be Merry in Maryland (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) by Frederick Philip Stieff
Buy new: $25.00 / Used from: $9.48 Apparently this is a reissue of a foodie classic, originally published in the 1930s.
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 | Hunger: An Unnatural History by Sharman Apt Russell
Buy new: $10.50 / Used from: $3.25 |
 | Soylent Green
Buy used from: $7.99 Yes, that's right. Soylent Green is people! A classic sci-fi flick about a horribly inventive solution to world hunger.
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 | Eat Drink Man Woman
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.85 If you have your choice between this film and Tortilla Soup, choose this one. There's no matching the original!
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 | Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $2.36 An up-close and scary look at the fast food industry. Did you know that McDonalds has a perfumier create the scent that's applied to its fries tailor-made so that you'll find it hard to resist the smell? This is just one of the many revealing facts in Schlosser's book.
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 | Soul Food
Buy used from: $2.19 Who can't relate to this movie? A fractured family unites around the table and tries to heal its wounds.
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 | A Taste of Maryland History: A Guide To Historic Eateries And Their Recipes (Taste of History) by Debbie Nunley
Buy new: $15.56 / Used from: $5.85 |
 | Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America by Morgan Spurlock
Buy new: $21.95 / Used from: $0.13 The companion book to the hit documentary Supersize Me.
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 | Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical by Anthony Bourdain
Buy used from: $2.67 Celebrity Chef, Tony Bourdain, explores the legend of Typhoid Mary.
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 | Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas by Judith A. Carney
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $13.40 |
 | Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History by Sidney W. Mintz
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $5.95 |
 | Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $0.19 I'm reading this book right now, and while I like Bill Buford's style, I keep asking myself how much Mario Batali paid him to write this book.
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 | Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
Buy used from: $0.01 Bourdain's memoir reads like the confessional of an aging rock star. Let's face it; that's what he is. Women want him and men want to be him. He is the Steven Tyler of celebrity chefs.
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 | Girl Cook: A Novel by Hannah Mccouch
Buy used from: $0.60 It's a man's world. That's McCouch's message in her novel about a young woman trying to work her way up the *ahem* food chain in the restaurant business. If you liked The Devil Wears Prada or The Nanny Diaries, you'll love this.
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 | The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition by Upton Sinclair
Buy new: $9.60 / Used from: $4.33 This classic celebrated its 100th year in 2006 and is available free in the public domain through Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/140
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 | A Feast of Words: For Lovers of Food Fiction by Anna Shapiro
Buy new: $40.00 / Used from: $1.18 |
 | Literary Feasts: Inspired Eating from Classic Fiction by Sean Brand
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $1.49 A companion text to this book: Literary Feasts: Recipes from the Classics of Literature by Barbara Scrafford
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 | Food, Consumption and the Body in Contemporary Women's Fiction by Sarah Sceats
Buy new: $35.82 / Used from: $34.76 |
 | Selected Shorts: Food Fictions (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) by Symphony Space
Buy new: $18.48 / Used from: $13.00 Coming soon, a collection from one of NPR's best programs, Selected Shorts. See the site detailing the contents here: http://store.symphonyspacestore.org/cd23ff.html
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 | Why We Eat What We Eat: How Columbus Changed the Way the World Eats by Raymond Sokolov
Buy new: $16.15 / Used from: $4.61 |
 | The Meaning of Food
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $14.50 See also Patricia Harris' companion book to this PBS series.
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 | Bring Home the Bacon and Cutting the Mustard: The Origins and Meaning of the Food We Speak
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table by Ruth Reichl
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.01 Don't miss Ruth Reichl's Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
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 | A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $0.72 Hemingway's prose is so rich in food references that Craig Boreth has been able to mine the works and compose The Hemingway Cookbook
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 | My Life in France by Julia Child
Buy new: $16.52 / Used from: $4.08 From the woman who brought gourmet cuisine into the suburban kitchen, forever transforming the way Americans cook and eat.
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