Recommended Reading

The Recommended Reading Book Shelf for March features books on food. On display you can find cookbooks from around the world, films about food, food writing, novels, art, and books about specific foods and on the social aspects of food and cooking.  This month’s selection is just a taste--find more in HoyaSearch!

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• A culinária do Rio de Janeiro : da colônia à atualidade
  TX716.B6 F47 2017
  Ferraz, Flávio
• A history of food in literature : from the fourteenth century to the present
  PR149.F66 B89 2017
  Boyce, Charlotte
• A necessary luxury : tea in Victorian England
  PR461 .F76 2008
  Fromer, Julie E.
• A symphony of flavors : food and music in concert
  GN407 .S96 2015
• Alice's adventures in Wonderland : and Through the looking-glass and what Alice found there
  PR4611 .A4 2015
  Carroll, Lewis
• Anatomy of a springroll
  E184.V53 A53 2001

Antidiets of the avant-garde : from Futurist cooking to Eat art
NX650.F64 N69 2010
Novero, Cecilia.

Art what thou eat : images of food in American art
N6512 .A763 1991

• As always, Julia : the letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto : food, friendship, and the making of a masterpiece
  TX649.C47 A4 2010
  Child, Julia.
• Books that cook : the making of a literary meal
  TX714 .B64128 2014
  • Breaking bread
    E184.K6 B743 2007
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• Burger
  GT2868.5 .A33 2018
  Adams, Carol J.
• Cheddar : a journey to the heart of America's most iconic cheese
  SF272.C5 E34 2015
  Edgar, Gordon.
• Chocolat
  ENG CHO
• Cod : a biography of the fish that changed the world
  SH351.C5 K87 1997
  Kurlansky, Mark
• Combat-ready kitchen : how the U.S. military shapes the way you eat
  TP369.U6 D4 2015
  Marx de Salcedo, Anastacia
  • Couscous : les graines de la dignités = Seeds of dignity
    HD9017.T82 C68 2017
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• Crafting the culture and history of French chocolate
  TX817.C4 T47 2000
  Terrio, Susan J. 1950- (Susan Jane)
• Down and out in Paris and London : a novel
  DC715 .O7 1961
  Orwell, George
• Eat like a fish : my adventures as a fisherman turned restorative ocean farmer
  SH390.5 .S65 2019
  Smith, Bren
• Eating tomorrow : agribusiness, family farmers, and the battle for the future of food
  HD9000.5 .W489 2019
  Wise, Timothy A.
• Fast food nation : the dark side of the all-American meal
  TX945.3 .S355 2005
  Schlosser, Eric.
• Feasts and fasts : a history of food in India
  GT2853.I4 S46 2015
  Sen, Colleen Taylor
• Feeding India : livelihoods, entitlements and capabilities
  HD9016.I42 P73 2014
  Pritchard, Bill.
• First world hunger revisited : food charity or the right to food?
  HV696.F6 F545 2014
• Food culture in sub-Saharan Africa
  TX725.A4 O78 2005
  Osseo-Asare, Fran.
• Food democracy : critical lessons in food, communication, design and art
  HD9000.6 .F66 2017
• Food in Shakespeare : early modern dietaries and the plays
  PR3069.F64 F58 2007
  Fitzpatrick, Joan.
• Food in history
  GT2850 .T34 1989
  Tannahill, Reay.
• Food is the solution : what to eat to save the world : 80+ recipes for a greener planet and a healthier you
  TX392 .P883 2018
  Prescott, Matthew
• Food security in an uncertain world : an international perspective
  HD9000.5 .F666 2015
• Getting what we need ourselves : how food has shaped African American life
  GT2853.U5 W34 2019
  Wallach, Jennifer Jensen
• Good food, strong communities : promoting social justice through local and regional food systems
  HD9005 .G66 2017
• Guess who's coming to dinner
  ENG GUE
• High on the hog : a culinary journey from Africa to America
  TX715 .H29972 2011
  Harris, Jessica B.
• Joy of cooking
  TX715 .R75 1975
  Rombauer, Irma von Starkloff
• Julie & Julia
  ENG JUL
• Just food : philosophy, justice and food
  HD9000.5 .J837 2015
• Karen Blixen's Babettes gæstebud
  DAN BAB
• Manly meals and mom's home cooking : cookbooks and gender in modern America
  TX714 .N52 2003
  Neuhaus, Jessamyn
• Mass starvation : the history and future of famine
  HC79.F3 D4 2018
  De Waal, Alex
• My abuelo's Mexican feast
  TX716.M4 G47 2015
  Germain, Daniella
• My dinner with André
  ENG MYD
• My year of meats
  PS3565.Z45 M99 1998
  Ozeki, Ruth L.
• Pancake : a global history
  TX770.P34 A43 2008
  Albala, Ken
• Perfection salad : women and cooking at the turn of the century
  TX173 .S44 2009
  Shapiro, Laura.

• Recipes for sad women
  PQ8180.1.B33 T7313 2012
  Abad Faciolince, Héctor Joaquín.
• Restaurant man
  TX910.5.B373 A3 2012
  Bastianich, Joseph
• Rund wie die Erde : kulinarische Geschichten
  PT2664.E47 R86 2012
  Demski, Eva
• Scribes of gastronomy : representations of food and drink in imperial Chinese literature
  PL2263 .S37 2013
• Southern food and civil rights : feeding the revolution
  E185.61 .O65 2017
  Opie, Frederick Douglass
• Still life : a history
  ND1390 .E2313 1999
  Ebert-Schifferer, S.
• Sweetness and power
  GT2869 .M56 1985
  Mintz, Sidney Wilfred
• Tafelrunde : Schriftsteller kochen für ihre Freunde : Rezepte und Geschichten
  PT155 .T34 2012
• Tasty : the art and science of what we eat
  TX631 .M395 2015
  McQuaid, John
• The Arcimboldo effect : transformations of the face from the 16th to the 20th century
  ND623.A7 A4 1987
• The Jemima code : two centuries of African American cookbooks
  TX715 .T598 2015
  Tipton-Martin, Toni
• The Macmillan treasury of herbs : a complete guide to the cultivation and use of wild and domesticated herbs
  SB351.H5 B63 1985
  Bonar, Ann
• The abundance : a novel
  PS3613.A3536 A66 2013
  Majmudar, Amit.
• The art of cooking : the first modern cookery book
  TX723 .M3126513 2005
  Maestro Martino.,
• The belly of Paris
  PQ2521.V3 E5 1996
  Zola, Émile
• The book of salt
  PS3620.R86 B66 2003
  Truong, Monique T. D.
• The edible monument : the art of food for festivals
  GT2860 .E35 2015
• The fortune cookie chronicles : adventures in the world of Chinese food
  TX945.4 .L44 2008
  Lee, Jennifer 8.
• The history and culture of Japanese food
  GT2853.J3 I83 2001
  Ishige, Naomichi
• The hungry ear : poems of food & drink
  PN6110.F73 H83 2012
• The jungle
  PS3537.I85 J85 1981
  Sinclair, Upton
• The mind-gut connection : how the hidden conversation within our bodies impacts our mood, our choices, and our overall health
  RC489.M53 M3748 2016
  Mayer, Emeran A.
• The new middle Eastern vegetarian : modern recipes from Veggiestan
  TX837 .B9265 2013
  Butcher, Sally.
• The omnivore's dilemma : a natural history of four meals
  GT2850 .P65 2006
  Pollan, Michael.
• The physiology of taste, or, Meditations on transcendental gastronomy
  TX637 .B8613 1994
  Brillat-Savarin, 1755-1826.
• The rituals of dinner : the origins, evolution, eccentricities, and meaning of table manners
  BJ2041 .V57 1991
  Visser, Margaret
• The secrets of Jesuit breadmaking : recipes and traditions from Jesuit bakers around the world
  TX769 .C85 1995
  Curry, Rick
• The slow food story : politics and pleasure
  TX631 .A53 2008
  Andrews, Geoff
• To the lighthouse
  PR6045.O72 T6 1992
  Woolf, Virginia
• Tomatoland : how modern industrial agriculture destroyed our most alluring fruit
  SB349 .E78 2011
  Estabrook, Barry.
• Virginia barbecue : a history
  TX840.B3 H392 2016
  Haynes, Joseph R. author (Joseph Ray)
• Waste matters : new perspectives of food and society
  GN407 .W37 2013
• We fed an island : the true story of rebuilding Puerto Rico, one meal at a time
  HV555.P9 A53 2018
  Andrés, José