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
A history of food in literature : from the fourteenth century to the present
A necessary luxury : tea in Victorian England
A symphony of flavors : food and music in concert
Alice's adventures in Wonderland : and Through the looking-glass and what Alice found there
Antidiets of the avant-garde : from Futurist cooking to Eat art
Art what thou eat : images of food in American art
As always, Julia : the letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto : food, friendship, and the making of a masterpiece
Books that cook : the making of a literary meal
Burger
Cheddar : a journey to the heart of America's most iconic cheese
Chocolat
Cod : a biography of the fish that changed the world
Combat-ready kitchen : how the U.S. military shapes the way you eat
Crafting the culture and history of French chocolate
Down and out in Paris and London : a novel
Eat like a fish : my adventures as a fisherman turned restorative ocean farmer
Eating tomorrow : agribusiness, family farmers, and the battle for the future of food
Fast food nation : the dark side of the all-American meal
Feasts and fasts : a history of food in India
Feeding India : livelihoods, entitlements and capabilities
First world hunger revisited : food charity or the right to food?
Food culture in sub-Saharan Africa
Food democracy : critical lessons in food, communication, design and art
Food in Shakespeare : early modern dietaries and the plays
Food in history
Food is the solution : what to eat to save the world : 80+ recipes for a greener planet and a healthier you
Food security in an uncertain world : an international perspective
Getting what we need ourselves : how food has shaped African American life
Good food, strong communities : promoting social justice through local and regional food systems
Guess who's coming to dinner
High on the hog : a culinary journey from Africa to America
Joy of cooking
Julie & Julia
Just food : philosophy, justice and food
Karen Blixen's Babettes gæstebud
Manly meals and mom's home cooking : cookbooks and gender in modern America
Mass starvation : the history and future of famine
My abuelo's Mexican feast
My dinner with André
My year of meats
Pancake : a global history
Perfection salad : women and cooking at the turn of the century
Recipes for sad women
Restaurant man
Rund wie die Erde : kulinarische Geschichten
Scribes of gastronomy : representations of food and drink in imperial Chinese literature
Southern food and civil rights : feeding the revolution
Still life : a history
Sweetness and power
Tafelrunde : Schriftsteller kochen für ihre Freunde : Rezepte und Geschichten
Tasty : the art and science of what we eat
The Arcimboldo effect : transformations of the face from the 16th to the 20th century
The Jemima code : two centuries of African American cookbooks
The Macmillan treasury of herbs : a complete guide to the cultivation and use of wild and domesticated herbs
The abundance : a novel
The art of cooking : the first modern cookery book
The belly of Paris
The book of salt
The edible monument : the art of food for festivals
The fortune cookie chronicles : adventures in the world of Chinese food
The history and culture of Japanese food
The hungry ear : poems of food & drink
The mind-gut connection : how the hidden conversation within our bodies impacts our mood, our choices, and our overall health
The new middle Eastern vegetarian : modern recipes from Veggiestan
The omnivore's dilemma : a natural history of four meals
The physiology of taste, or, Meditations on transcendental gastronomy
The rituals of dinner : the origins, evolution, eccentricities, and meaning of table manners
The secrets of Jesuit breadmaking : recipes and traditions from Jesuit bakers around the world
The slow food story : politics and pleasure
To the lighthouse
Tomatoland : how modern industrial agriculture destroyed our most alluring fruit
Virginia barbecue : a history
Waste matters : new perspectives of food and society
We fed an island : the true story of rebuilding Puerto Rico, one meal at a time
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