Friday, January 06, 2006

 

Some Food and Culture Books

This modified list of books was presented at the conclusion of the following Chronicle of Higer Education article, by Jennifer K. Ruark, "A PLACE AT THE TABLE: More Scholars Focus on Historical, Social, and Cultural Meanings of Food, but Some Critics Say It's Scholarship-Lite".

http://chronicle.com/free/v45/i44/44a00101.htm

It has been modified to include UC Davis Library call numbers...

All manners of food : eating and taste in England and
France from the Middle Ages to the present / Stephen
Mennell.
Published
Oxford, UK ; New York, NY, USA : B. Blackwell, 1985.
Description
xii, 380 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call no.
Shields Library GT2853.G7 M46 1985 Regular Loan
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Counihan, Carole,1948-
Title
The anthropology of food and body : gender, meaning,
and power / Carole M. Counihan.
Published
New York : Routledge, 1999.
Description
viii, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call no.
Shields Library GT2850 .C68 1999 Regular Loan

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Belasco, Warren James.
Title
Appetite for change : how the counterculture took on
the food industry, 1966-1988 / Warren J. Belasco.
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Pantheon Books, 1989.
Description
311 p. ; 25 cm.
Call no.
Shields Library HD9055 .B44 1989 Regular Loan


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Witt, Doris.
Title
Black hunger : food and the politics of U.S. identity /
Doris Witt.
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Description
xii, 292 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series
( Race and American culture)
Call no.
Shields Library E185.86 .W58 1999 Regular Loan

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Title
Consuming geographies : we are where we eat / [edited
by] David Bell and Gill Valentine.
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
Description
ix, 236 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Call no.
Shields Library GT2850 .B45 1997 Regular Loan

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Title
Consuming passions : food in the age of anxiety /
edited by Sian Griffiths and Jennifer Wallace.
Published
Manchester ; New York : Mandolin ; New York :
Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's
Press, 1998.
Description
xi, 208 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Call no.
Shields Library GT2850 .C64 1998 Regular Loan

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Fine, Ben.
Title
Consumption in the age of affluence : the world of food
/ Ben Fine, Michael Heasman and Judith Wright.
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
Description
x, 305 p. ; 24 cm.
Call no.
Shields Library HD9000.5 .F52 1996 Regular Loan

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Title
Cooking, eating, thinking : transformative philosophies
of food / edited by Deane W. Curtin and Lisa M.
Heldke.
Published
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1992.
Description
xvii, 386 p. ; 24 cm.
Call no.
Shields Library B105.F66 C66 1992 Regular Loan
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Title
Eating culture / Ron Scapp and Brian Seitz, editors.
Published
Albany : State University of New York Press, c1998.
Description
viii, 303 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call no.
Shields Library GT2850 .S27 1998 Regular Loan

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Title
Eating culture : the poetics and politics of food /
edited by Tobias Doring, Markus Heide, Susanne
Muhleisen.
Published
Heidelberg : Winter, 2003.
Description
vi, 284 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Call no.
Shields Library GT2850 .E385 2003 Regular Loan

Note
"Based on conference papers given at the International
Symposium "Eating culture: the politics and poetics of
food today," which took place at the Johann Wolfgang
Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt in spring 2000"--Pref.

Contents: Eating communities : the mixed appeals of
sodality / Sidney W. Mintz -- "Jambalaya, crawfish pie,
file gumbo" : the creolizing cuisines of New Orleans /
Berndt Ostendorf -- Beyond 'authenticity' :
reinterpreting Chinese immigrant food in Belgium /
Ching Lin Pang -- Globalized tongues : the cultural
semantics of food names / Susanne Muhleisen -- Talking
identities : food, Black 'authenticity' and hybridity /
Shirley Tate -- Tasting America : food, race, and anti-American sentiments in nineteenth-century German-American writing / Heike Paul -- Curry at work :nibbling at the jewel in the crown / Mark Stein --
Eating Indian(s) : food, representation, and the Indian
diaspora in the United States / Rudiger Kunow -- "Like
a beacon against the cold" : food and the construction
of ethnic identities in Black British novels / Susanne
Reichl -- Fetching broth from Harfield : sustaining the
body politic in Jane Austen's Emma / Sarah Moss -- Visual victual : iconographies of food and dining in nineteenth-century England / Renate
Brosch -- A room of one's own? Contested culinary and
filmic space in The scent of green papaya, Eat Drink
Man Woman, and Tampopo / Julika Griem --Alimentary
deliquency in the cinema / Kevin Dwyer.



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Bentley, Amy,1962-
Title
Eating for victory : food rationing and the politics of
domesticity / Amy Bentley.
Published
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1998.
Description
xiii, 238 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call no.
Shields Library D810.W7 B45 1998 Regular Loan

Contents
Contents: Rationing is good democracy -- Woman as
wartime homemaker : family, food, and national security
-- Islands of serenity : gender, race, and ordered
meals -- Meat and sugar : consumption, rationing, and
wartime food deprivation -- Victory gardening and
canning : men, women, and home front family food
production -- Freedom from want : abundance and
sacrifice in U.S. postwar famine relief.


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Manton, Catherine,1942-
Title
Fed up : women and food in America / Catherine Manton.
Published
Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 1999.
Description
xiv, 170 p. ; 25 cm.
Call no.
Shields Library HQ1410 .M355 1999 Regular Loan
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Uniform Title
Histoire de l'alimentation. English. .
Title
Food : a culinary history from antiquity to the present
/ under the direction of Jean-Louis Flandrin and
Massimo Montanari ; English edition by Albert
Sonnenfeld ; translated by Clarissa Botsford ... [et
al.].
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, c1999.
Description
xviii, 592 p., [20] p. of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Series
( European perspectives)
Call no.
Shields Library TX353 .H525 1999 Regular Loan
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Title
Food and culture : a reader / edited by Carole Counihan
and Penny Van Esterik.
Published
New York : Routledge, 1997.
Description
424 p. ; 27 cm.
Call no.
Shields Library GT2850 .F6 1997 Regular Loan


Contents
Partial contents:The changing significance of food /
Margaret Mead -- Toward a psychosociology of
contemporary food consumption / Roland Barthes -- The
culinary triangle / Claude Levi-Strauss -- Deciphering
a meal / Mary Douglas -- The semiotics of food in the
Bible / Jean Soler -- The abominable pig / Marvin
Harris -- Traditional medical values of food / E.N.
Anderson -- Food as a cultural construction / Anna
Meigs -- The psychoanalyic study of infantile feeding
disturbances / Anna Freud -- Nutritional processes and
personality developent among the gurage of Ethiopia /
Dorothy N. Shack. Hunger, anxiety, and ritual / William
A. Shack -- Fast, feast, and flesh / Caroline Walker
Bynum -- The appetite as voice / Joan Jacobs Brumberg
-- Conflict and deference / Marjorie Devault -- An
anthropological approach to the problem of obesity /
Hortense Powdermaker -- Body image and self-awareness /
Hilde Bruch -- Anorexia nervosa / Susan Bordo -- Que
gordita / Emily Massara -- The sweetness of fat / Elisa
J. Sobo -- Soul, black women, and food / Marvalene H. Hughes -- Bread as world / Carole Counihan -- Japanese mothers and obentos.
On the civilizing of appetite / Stephen Mennell -- Industrial food / Jack Goody -- Time, sugar, and sweetness / Sidney W. Mintz -- The
politics of breastfeeding / Penny Van Esterik --
Hunger, malnutrition, and poverty in the contemporary
United States / Janet M. Fitchen -- Beyond the myths of
hunger / Frances Moore Lappe & Joseph Collins.


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Korsmeyer, Carolyn.
Title
Making sense of taste : food & philosophy / Carolyn
Korsmeyer.
Published
Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1999.
Description
xii, 232 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call no.
Shields Library B105.F66 K67 1999 Regular Loan

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Yue, Gang,1955-
Title
The mouth that begs : hunger, cannibalism, and the
politics of eating in modern China / Gang Yue.
Published
Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1999.
Description
viii, 447 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series
( Post-contemporary interventions)
Call no.
Shields Library PL2303 .Y83 1999 Regular Loan


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Spivey, Diane M.,1949-
Title
The peppers, cracklings, and knots of wool cookbook :
the global migration of African cuisine / Diane M.
Spivey.
Published
New York : State University of New York Press, 1999.
Description
xi, 422 p. ; 24 cm.
Call no.
Shields Library TX725.A4 S68 2000 Regular Loan

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Smith, Andrew F.,1946-
Title
Popped culture : a social history of popcorn in America
/ Andrew F. Smith.
Published
Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press,
c1999.
Description
xxi, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call no.
Shields Library TX814.5.P66 S62 1999 Regular Loan

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Pilcher, Jeffrey M.,1965-
Title
Que vivan los tamales! : food and the making of Mexican
identity / Jeffrey M. Pilcher.
Edition
1st ed.
Published
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1998.
Description
x, 234 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call no.
Shields Reserves Reserves TX716.M4 P54 1998 Regular
Loan
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Title
Recipes for reading : community cookbooks, stories,
histories / edited by Anne L. Bower.
Published
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1997.
Description
xii, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call no.
Shields Library TX652 .R377 1997 Regular Loan

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Levenstein, Harvey A.,1938-
Title
Revolution at the table : the transformation of the
American diet / Harvey A. Levenstein.
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
Description
xii, 275 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
( California studies in food and culture ; 7)
Call no.
Shields Library GT2853.U5 L48 2003 Regular Loan
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Title
Rooted in America : foodlore of popular fruits and
vegetables / edited by David Scofield Wilson and Angus
Kress Gillespie.
Edition
1st ed.
Published
Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1999.
Description
xiii, 239 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call no.
Shields Library GR105 .R66 1999 Regular Loan

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Wheaton, Barbara Ketcham.
Title
Savoring the past : the French kitchen and table from
1300 to 1789 / Barbara Ketcham Wheaton.
Published
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983.
Description
xxi, 341 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Call no.
Shields Library TX719 .W47 1983 Regular Loan

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Hogan, David Gerard,1959-
Title
Selling 'em by the sack : White Castle and the creation
of American food / David Gerard Hogan.
Published
New York : New York University Press, c1997.
Description
x, 199 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call no.
Shields Library TX945.5.W48 H64 1997 Regular Loan

Other title
White Castle and the creation of American food

Contents: American food before White Castle -- White
Castle and the beginning of fast food -- Hamburgers
during hard times -- White Castle goes to war -- White
Castle rises again -- White Castle in the age of
McDonald's.


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Mintz, Sidney Wilfred,1922-
Title
Sweetness and power : the place of sugar in modern
history / Sidney W. Mintz.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Viking, 1985.
Description
xxx, 274 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call no.
Shields Reserves Course Reserves GT2869 .M56 1985 Two
Hour Loan
Call no.
Shields Reserves Reserves GT2869 .M56 1985 Regular Loan

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Beardsworth, Alan,1945-
Title
Sociology on the menu : an invitation to the study of
food and society / Alan Beardsworth and Teresa Keil.
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
Description
x, 277 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call no.
Shields Library GT2850 .B43 1997 Regular Loan
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Title
The taste of American place : a reader on regional and
ethnic foods / edited by Barbara G. Shortridge and
James R. Shortridge.
Published
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c1998.
Description
x, 298 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call no.
Shields Library TX715 .T2127 1998 Regular Loan

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Mintz, Sidney Wilfred,1922-
Title
Tasting food, tasting freedom : excursions into eating,
culture, and the past / Sidney W. Mintz.
Published
Boston : Beacon Press, c1996.
Description
xix, 149 p. ; 23 cm.
Call no.
Shields Library GT2850 .M58 1996 Regular Loan
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Title
Through the kitchen window : women explore the intimate
meanings of food and cooking / edited by Arlene Voski
Avakian.
Published
Boston : Beacon Press, c1997.
Description
xv, 315 p. ; 22 cm.
Call no.
Shields Library TX355.5 .T47 1997 Regular Loan
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Gabaccia, Donna R.,1949-
Title
We are what we eat : ethnic food and the making of
Americans / Donna R. Gabaccia.
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.
Description
278 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call no.
Shields Library GT2853.U5 G33 1998 Regular Loan2





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