AMST 375 American Foodways Bibliography
Selected Books at UNC
Foodways, General
Warren Belasco. Food: The Key Concepts.
Alan Davidson. The Oxford Companion to Food.
Solomon H. Katz, Ed. Encyclopedia of Food and Culture.
Andrew F. Smith. The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink.
Harlan Walker, Ed. Food and the Memory: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, 2000.
Harlan Walker, Ed. The Fat of the Land: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, 2002
Food and Cultural Meaning
E.N. Anderson. Everyone Eats: Understanding Food and Culture.
Bob Ashley, Joanne Hollows, Steve Jones and Ben Taylor. Food and Cultural Studies.
Carole M. Counihan. The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning, and Power.
Carole M. Counihan and Van Estrik, eds. Food and Culture: A Reader.
Deane W. Curtin and Lisa M. Heldke, eds. Cooking, Eating, Thinking Transformative Philosophies of Food.
Mary Douglas. Implicit Meanings: Selected Essays in Anthropology.
Patricia Harris, David Lyon, and Sue McLaughlin. The Meaning of Food: Companion to the PBS television series.
Claude Levi-Strauss. The Raw and the Cooked: Mythologiques.
Helen Macbeth and Jeremy MacClancy, eds. Researching Food Habits: Methods and Problems, 2004.
Sidney Mintz. Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past.
Ron Scapp and Brian Seitz, Eds. Eating Culture.
David Sutton. Remembrance of Repasts: An Anthropology of Food and Memory.
Margaret Visser. Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure, and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Meal.
Margaret Visser. The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners.
Don Yoder. "Folk Cookery." Folklore and Folklife: An Introduction. Ed. Richard M. Dorson.
American Food History and Foodways
Nelson Algren. American Eats.
Amy Bentley. Eating for Victory: Food Rationing and the Politics of Domesticity.
Charles Camp. American Foodways: What, When, Why, and How We Eat in America.
Barbara C. Carson. Ambitious Appetites: Dining, Behavior, and Patterns of Consumption in Federal Washington.
Sophie D. Coe. America's First Cuisines.
Carole M. Counihan, ed. Food in the USA: A Reader.
Nancy Carter Crump. Hearthside Cooking: Early American Southern Cuisine Updated for Today's Hearth and Cookstove.
Allison and Margaret Engel. Food Finds: American's Best Local Foods and the People Who Produce Them.
Kathryn Grover. Dining in America, 1850-1900.
Barbara Haber. From Hardtack to Home Fries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals.
John L. and Karen Hess. The Taste of America.
Theodore C. Humphrey and Lin T. Humphrey, eds. "We Gather Together": Food and Festival in American Life.
Harvey Levenstein. Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet.
Harvey Levenstein. Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America.
Anne Mendelson. Stand Facing the Stove: The Story of the Women Who Gave America The Joy of Cooking.
Sidney Mintz. Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past.
Waverly Root and Richard de Rochement. Eating in America: A History.
Laura Shapiro. Something form the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America.
Raymond Sokolov. Why We Eat What We Eat: How the Encounter Between the New World and the Old Changed the Way Everyone on the Planet Eats.
Jane and Michael Stern. Square Meals.
Regional Food, American (See Also Southern Food)
Betty Fussell. I Hear America Cooking: The Cooks, Regions and Recipes of American Regional Cuisine.
Sandra Oliver. Saltwater Foodways: New Englanders and Their Food at Sea and at Shore in the Nineteenth Century.
Linda Garland Page and Eliot Wigginton. The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Cookery: Regional Memorabilia and Recipes.
Barbara G. Shortridge and James R. Shortridge, eds. The Taste of American Place: A Reader on Regional and Ethnic Foods.
Raymond Sokolov. Fading Feast: A Compendium of Disappearing American Regional Foods.
Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald. America's Founding Food: The Story of New England Cooking.
Calvin Trillin. Feeding a Yen: Savoring Local Specialities, From Kansas City to Cuzco.
Southern Food
Marion Brown. Southern Cook Book.
Nancy Carter Crump. Hearthside Cooking: Early American Southern Cuisine Updated for Today's Hearth and Cookstove.
Natalie Dupree. Nathalie Dupree's Southern Memories: Recipes and Reminiscences
Jim Early. The Best Tar Heel Barbecue: Manteo to Murphy.
John T. Edge, ed. A Gracious Plenty: Recipes and Recollections from the American South.
John T. Edge. Southern Belly: The Ultimate Food Lover's Companion to the South.
John Egerton, ed. Cornbread Nation 1: The Best of Southern Food Writing.
John Egerton. Southern Food: At Home, On the Road, In History.
John Egerton. Side Orders: Small Helpings of Southern Cookery and Culture.
Lolis Eric Elie, ed. Cornbread Nation 2: The United States of Barbecue.
Lolis Eric Elie. Smokestack Lightning: Adventures in the Heart of Barbecue Country.
Damon Lee Fowler. Classical Southern Cooking: A Celebration of the Cuisine of the Old South.
Damon Lee Fowler. New Southern Kitchen.
Karen Hess. The Carolina Rice Kitchen: The African Connection.
Junior League of Charleston. Charleston receipts collected by the Junior League of Charleston.
Mary Land. Louisiana Cookery.
Matt Lee and Ted Lee. The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook: Stories and Recipes for Southerners and Would-be Southerners.
Edna Lewis. The Taste of Country Cooking.
Ronni Lundy, ed. Cornbread Nation 3: Foods of the Mountain South.
Nancie McDermott. Southern Cakes: Sweet and Irresistible Recipes for Everyday Celebrations.
Bill Neal. Biscuits, Spoonbread, and Sweet Potato Pie.
Bill Neal. Bill Neal's Southern Cooking.
Moreton Neal. Remembering Bill Neal: Favorite Recipes from a Life in the Kitchen.
Peggy Prenshaw, ed. "Introduction," Southern Quarterly, Special Double Issue: The Texts of Southern Food. 30 (Winter-Spring 1992).
Paul Prudhomme. Chef Paul Prudhomme's Louisiana Kitchen.
Dale Volberg Reed and John Shelton Reed, eds.; John T. Edge, general ed. Cornbread Nation 4: The Best of Southern Food Writing.
John Shelton Reed. Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue.
Sallie Ann Robinson. Gullah Home Cooking the Daufuskie Way: Smokin' Joe Butter Beans, Ol' 'Fuskie Fried Crab Rice, Sticky-Bush Blackberry Dumpling, and Other Sea Island Favorites.
Beth Tartan. North Carolina and Old Salem Cookery.
Joe Gray Taylor. Eating, Drinking, and Visiting in the South: An Informal History.
Charles Reagan Wilson, ed. The new encyclopedia of Southern culture: Foodways (Vol 7). John T. Edge, Volume Ed.
Culinary Tourism
Priscilla Boniface. Tasting Tourism: Travelling for Food and Drink.
C. Michael Hall, ed. Food Tourism Around the World : Development, Management, and Markets.
Lucy M. Long, ed. Culinary Tourism.
Lucy Long, ed. "Special Issue: Culinary Tourism." Southern Folklore. 55 (1998).
Cookbooks, Recipes, and Meaning
Anne L. Bower, ed. Recipes for Reading: Community Cookbooks, Stories, and Histories.
Marion Brown. Southern Cook Book.
Mildred Council. Mama Dip's Family Cookbook.
Mildred Council. Mama Dip's Kitchen.
Nancy Carter Crump. Hearthside Cooking: Early American Southern Cuisine Updated for Today's Hearth and Cookstove.
Natalie Dupree. Nathalie Dupree's Southern Memories: Recipes and Reminiscences
John T. Edge. ed. A Gracious Plenty: Recipes and Recollections from the American South.
Junior League of Charleston. Charleston receipts collected by the Junior League of Charleston.
Sara Foster. The Foster's Market Cookbook.
Sara Foster. Fresh Everyday: More Great Recipes from Foster's Market.
Damon Lee Fowler. Classical Southern Cooking: A Celebration of the Cuisine of the Old South.
Damon Lee Fowler. New Southern Kitchen.
Betty Fussell. I Hear America Cooking: The Cooks, Regions and Recipes of American Regional Cuisine.
Lynne Ireland. "The Compiled Cookbook as Foodways Autobiography," Western Folklore 40:1 (1981) 107-114.
Corby Kummer. The Pleasures of Slow Food: Celebrating Authentic Traditions, Flavors, and Recipes.
Mary Land. Louisiana Cookery.
Matt Lee and Ted Lee. The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook: Stories and Recipes for Southerners and Would-be Southerners.
Susan J. Leonardi. "Recipes for Reading: Summer Pasta, Lobster a la Riseholme, and Key Lime Pie." PMLA 104 (May 1989): 340-347.
Edna Lewis. The Taste of Country Cooking.
Nancie McDermott. Southern Cakes: Sweet and Irresistible Recipes for Everyday Celebrations.
Joan Nathan. Jewish cooking in America.
Joan Nathan. The New American Cooking.
Bill Neal. Biscuits, Spoonbread, and Sweet Potato Pie.
Bill Neal. Bill Neal's Southern Cooking.
Moreton Neal. Remembering Bill Neal: Favorite Recipes from a Life in the Kitchen.
Jessamyn Neuhaus. Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America.
Linda Garland Page and Eliot Wigginton. A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of Women Told Through Food, Recipes, and Remembrances.
Paul Prudhomme. Chef Paul Prudhomme's Louisiana Kitchen.
Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson. Hidden Kitchens: Stories, Recipes, and More from NPR's The Kitchen Sisters.
Bill Smith. Seasoned in the South: Recipes from Crook's Corner and From Home.
Jane Stern and Michael Stern. Square Meals.
Beth Tartan. "Cookbooks." Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Eds. Charles R. Wilson and William R. Ferris.
Beth Tartan. "Cookbooks." In The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 7 "Foodways". Ed. Charles R. Wilson, Volume Editor John T. Edge.
Janet Theophano. Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives Through the Cookbooks They Wrote.
Food and Ethnicity
Linda Keller Brown and Kay Mussell, eds. Ethnic and Regional Foodways in the United States: The Performance of Group Identity.
Mildred Council. Mama Dip's Family Cookbook.
Mildred Council. Mama Dip's Kitchen.
Hasia Diner. Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration.
Joel Denker. The World on a Plate: A Tour through the History of America's Ethnic Cuisine.
Elizabeth Ehrlich. Miriam's Kitchen: A Memoir.
Marcie Cohen Ferris. Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South.
Psyche Forson-Williams. Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power.
Donna Gabaccia. We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans.
Jessica Harris. The Welcome Table: African-American Heritage Cooking.
Jessica Harris. Beyond Gumbo: Creole Fusion Food from the Atlantic Rim
Karen Hess. The Carolina Rice Kitchen: The African Connection.
Sherrie A. Inness, ed. Kitchen Culture in America: Popular Representations of Food, Gender, and Race.
Sherrie A. Inness, ed. Pilaf, Pozole, and Pad Thai: American Women and Ethnic Food.
David Kraemer. Jewish Eating and Identity Through the Ages
M.M. Manring. Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima.
David Mas Masumoto. Harvest Son
David Mas Masumoto. Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm.
Joan Nathan. Jewish Cooking in America.
Joan Nathan. The New American Cooking.
Jeffrey M. Pilcher. Que Vivan Los Tamales! Food and the Making of Mexican Identity.
Tracey Nicole Poe, "Food, Culture, and Entrepreneurship Among African-Americans, Italians, and Swedes in Chicago." Diss. Harvard University, 1999.
Tracey Nicole Poe, "The Origins of Soul Food in Black Urban Identity: Chicago, 1915-1947," American Studies International. 37.1 (February 1999): 4-33.
Paul Prudhomme. Chef Paul Prudhomme's Louisiana Kitchen.
Claudia Roden. The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkind to New York.
Barbara G. and James R. Shortridge, eds. The Taste of American Place: A Reader on Regional and Ethnic Foods.
Doris Witt. Black Hunger: Food and the Politics of U.S. Identity.
Doris Witt. Black hunger: Soul Food and America.
Wenying Xu. Eating Identities: Reading Food in Asian American Literature.
Food and Gender
Arlene Voski Avakian, ed. Through the Kitchen Window: Women Explore the Intimate Meanings of Food and Cooking.
Arlene Voski Avakian and Barbara Haber, eds. From Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies, 2005.
Amy Bentley. Eating for Victory: Food Rationing and the Politics of Domesticity.
Joan Jacobs Brumberg. Fasting Girls: The History of Anoxeria Nervosa.
Alison J. Clarke. Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America.
Ann Cooper, "A Woman's Place is in the Kitchen": The Evolution of Women Chefs.
Carole M. Counihan. The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning, and Power.
Psyche Forson-Williams. Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power.
Patricia M. Gantt. "Taking the Cake: Power Politics in Southern Life and Fiction." Cooking Lessons: The Politics of Gender and Food. Ed. Sherrie A. Inness.
Sherrie A. Inness. Dinner Roles: American Women and Culinary Culture.
Sherrie A. Inness, ed. Cooking Lessons: The Politics of Gender and Food.
Sherrie A. Inness, ed. Kitchen Culture in America: Popular Representations of Food, Gender, and Race.
Sherrie A. Inness, ed. Pilaf, Pozole, and Pad Thai: American Women and Ethnic Food.
Lu Ann Jones. Mama Learned Us to Work Farm Women in the New South.
Jessamyn Neuhaus. Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America.
Ann Romines. The Home Plot: Women Writers and Domestic Ritual.
Jennifer Scanlon, ed. The Gender and Consumer Culture Reader.
Sarah Sceats. Food, consumption, and the Body in Contemporary Women's Fiction.
Laura Shapiro. Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century.
Laura Shapiro. Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America.
Laura Schenone. A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: a History of American Women Told Through Food, Recipes, and Remembrances.
Janet Theophano. Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives Through the Cookbooks They Wrote.
Food and Identity (See Also Food and Ethnicity)
Linda Keller Brown and Kay Mussell, eds. Ethnic and Regional Foodways in the United States: The Performance of Group Identity.
Daniel Sack. Whitebread Protestants: Food and Religion in Mainline America.
Mark Winegardner, ed. We Are What We Ate.
Specific Foods
Steve Almond. Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America.
Joel Glenn Brenner. The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars.
Simon R. Charsley. Wedding Cakes and Cultural History.
E. Melanie DuPuis. Nature's Perfect Food: How Milk Became America's Drink.
John T. Edge. Apple Pie: An American Story.
John T. Edge. Fried Chicken: An American Story.
John T. Edge. Hamburgers and Fries: An American Story.
Lolis Eric Elie. Smokestack Lightning: Adventures in the Heart of Barbecue Country.
Betty Fussell. Raising Steaks: The Life and Times of American Beef.
Betty Fussell. The Story of Corn.
Peter Kaminsky. Pig Perfect: Encounters with Remarkable Swine and Some Great Ways to Cook Them.
Sidney Mintz. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History.
John Shelton Reed. Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue.
Jeanne Voltz and Elaine J. Harvell. The Country Ham Book.
Food and Health
Joan Jacobs Brumberg. Fasting Girls: The History of Anoxeria Nervosa.
Hank Cardello. Stuffed: An Insider's Look at Who's (Really) Making America Fat.
Christopher D. Cook. Diet for a Dead Planet: How the Food Industry is Killing Us.
Helen Macbeth and Jeremy MacClancy, eds. Researching food Habits: Methods and Problems.
Marion Nestle. Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health.
Marion Nestle. What to Eat.
Eric Schlosser. Fast Food Nation.
Food and Marketing
Warren Belasco and Philip Scranton. Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies.
Hank Cardello. Stuffed: An Insider's Look at Who's (Really) Making America Fat.
Alison J. Clarke. Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America.
Sherrie A. Inness, ed. Kitchen Culture in America: Popular Representations of Food, Gender, and Race.
M.M. Manring. Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima.
Food Writing
Kelly Alexander and Cynthia Harris. Hometown Appetites: The Story of Clementine Paddleford, the Forgotten Food Writer who Chronicled How America Ate.
Anthony Bourdain. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly.
John T. Edge. Southern Belly: The Ultimate Food Lover's Companion to the South.
John Egerton, ed. Cornbread Nation 1: The Best of Southern Food Writing.
Lolis Eric Elie, ed. Cornbread Nation 2: The United States of Barbecue.
Lolis Eric Elie. Smokestack Lightning: Adventures in the Heart of Barbecue Country.
Laura Esquivel. Between Two Fires: Intimate Writing on Life, Love, Food and Flavor.
M.F.K. Fisher. The Art of Eating.
M.F.K. Fisher. The Gastronomical Me.
Mark Kurlansky. Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History.
Ronni Lundy, ed. Cornbread Nation 3: Foods of the Mountain South.
David Mas Masumoto. Harvest Son
David Mas Masumoto. Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm.
Molly O'Neill. American Food Writing: An Anthology with Classic Recipes.
Dale Volberg Reed and John Shelton Reed, eds.; John T. Edge, general ed. Cornbread Nation 4: The Best of Southern Food Writing.
Julie Powell. Julie and Julia: 365 days, 524 recipes, 1 tiny apartment kitchen.
Ruth Reichl. Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table.
Ruth Reichl. Comfort Me with Apples.
Calvin Trillin. Feeding a Yen: Savoring Local Specialities, from Kansas City to Cuzco.
Calvin Trillin. The Tummy Trilogy.
Mark Winegardner, ed. We Are What We Ate.
Food and Film
Anne L. Bower, ed. Reel Food: Essays on Food and Film.
Jane F. Ferry. Food in Film: A Culinary Performance of Communication.
James R. Keller. Food, Film and Culture: A Genre Study.
Steve Zimmerman and Ken Weiss. Food in the Movies.
Food and Literature
Laura Esquivel. Like Water for Chocolate.
Fannie Flagg. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Cafe.
Patricia M. Gantt. "Taking the Cake: Power Politics in Southern Life and Fiction." Cooking Lessons: The Politics of Gender and Food. Ed. Sherrie A. Inness.
Peggy Prenshaw, ed. "Introduction," Southern Quarterly, Special Double Issue: The Texts of Southern Food. 30 (Winter-Spring 1992).
Ann Romines. The Home Plot: Women Writers and Domestic Ritual.
Sarah Sceats. Food, Consumption, and the Body in Contemporary Women's Fiction.
Commentary on Food Industry
Warren Belasco. Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on the Food Industry.
Alison J. Clarke. Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America.
Harvey Levenstein. Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet.
Harvey Levenstein. Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America.
Marion Nestle. Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health.
Michael Pollan. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals.
Eric Schlosser. Fast Food Nation.
Food Crisis
Geoff Andrews. The Slow Food Story: Politics and Pleasure.
Warren Belasco. Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on the Food Industry.
Christopher D. Cook. Diet for a Dead Planet: How the Food Industry is Killing Us.
Allison Engel and Margaret Engel. Food Finds: America's Best Local Foods and the People Who Produce Them.
Brian Halweil. Home Grown: The Case for Local Food in a Global Market.
Corby Kummer. The Pleasures of Slow Food: Celebrating Authentic Traditions, Flavors, and Recipes.
Gary Paul Nabhan. Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Food.
Carlo Petrini. Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should be Good, Clean, and Fair.
Carlo Petrini. Slow Food Revolution: A New Culture for Eating and Living.
Michael Pollan. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals.
Eric Schlosser. Fast Food Nation.
Food and Nature
Michael Pollan. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World.
Michael Pollan. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals.
David Goodman and Michael Redclift. Refashioning Nature: Food, Ecology and Culture.
Pamela C. Ronald and Raoul W. Adamchak. Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food.
Peter Pringle. Food, Inc.: Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest.
Assignment Resources
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