FOOD AND CULTURE

"Kitchen Still Life with a Maid and Young Boy" by Frans Snyders & Jan Boeckhorst, circa 1650 (courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Trust)

European History

Albala K (2000) Southern Europe. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1203-1210 [history; contemporary food habits; food & religion].

Essential Reference -- click for detailsAlbala K (2002) Eating Right in the Renaissance. University of California Press [history; nutritional beliefs; dietary prescription; Europe].

Albala K (2003) Food in Early Modern Europe. Greenwood [history].

Andrews J (1993) Diffusion of the Mesoamerican Food Complex to Southeastern Europe. Geographical Review. 83:194-204 [history; plant introduction; foodstuffs; capsicum pepper; Central America; Europe; Balkans; Portugal; Spain].

Bakels C; Jacomet S (2003) Access to Luxury Foods in Central Europe During the Roman Period: The Archaeobotanical Evidence. World Archaeology. 34:542-557 [history; archaeology; food use; Europe].

Banham D (2003) Be Hlafum and Wyrtum: Food Plants in Anglo-Saxon Society and Economy. Costerus. 148:119-132 [history; foodstuffs; Europe].

Barlosius E (2000) France. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1210-1216 [history; Europe; France].

Barthes R (1975) Toward a Psychosociology of Contemporary Food Consumption. in E Forster; R Forster (eds) European Diet from Pre-Industrial to Modern Times, pp. 166-173 [symbols; history; Western culture; Europe].

Bell R (1985) Holy Anorexia. University of Chicago Press [history; women; fasting; appetite expression; eating disorder; anorexia; Europe].

Black M (2004) Medieval Cookery: Recipes and History. English Heritage [history; food habits; kitchen equipment; etiquette; Europe; England].

Boucher PP (1992) Cannibal Encounters: Europeans and Island Caribs [history; cannibalism; Caribbean].

Braudel F (1981) Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. I : The Structure of Everyday Life (Civilization and Capitalism : 15th-18th Century) [history; foodways; Europe].

Brears P (2004) Tudor Cookery: Recipes and History. English Heritage [history; food habits; kitchen equipment; etiquette; New World foods; Europe; England].

Bynum C (1987) Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women [history; fasting; women; Europe].

Recommended - click for detailsCachel S (1997) Dietary Shifts and the Upper Paleolithic Transition. Current Anthropology. 38:579-604 [prehistory; food consumption; Europe; North America].

Capatti A; Montanari M (2003) Italian Cuisine: A Cultural History. Columbia University Press [history; high cuisine; Europe; Italy].

Carlin M; Rosenthal JT (1998) Food and Eating in Medieval Europe. Hambleton Press [collected essays; history; feasts; famine; food habits; Europe].

Chatwin ME (1997) Socio-Cultural Transformation and Foodways in the Republic of Georgia. Nova Science [famine; history; barter; Europe].

Clarkson L; Crawford E (2002) Feast and Famine: A History of Food in Ireland, 1500 to 1920. Oxford University Press [history; Europe].

Connell KH (1962) The Potato in Ireland. Past and Present. 23:57-71 [history; Europe; Ireland].

Conquest R (1986) The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine. Oxford University Press [history; mass starvation; political causes; Europe; Ukraine; Russia].

Cosman M (1976) Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Cookery and Ceremony [history; feasts; Europe].

Crosby AW (1972) The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. Greenwood Press [history; diffusion of plants, animals; North American Indians; Europe].

Meaningful History -- click for detailsCrosby AW (1986) Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900. Cambridge University Press [history; diffusion of plants, animals; food systems; North America; North American Indians].

Dalby A (1997) Siren Feasts: A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece. Routledge [Europe].

Recommended -- click for detailsDalby A (2003) Flavours of Byzantium. Prospect Books [history; dining custom; dietary beliefs; seasonal foods; Middle Ages; Europe; Eastern Roman Empire; Constantinople].

Dalby A (2003) Food in the Ancient World, an A-Z. Routledge [history; various foodstuffs; Europe; Classical Greece; Rome].

Davidson A (1992) Europeans' Wary Encounter with Tomatoes, Potatoes, and Other New World Foods. in N Foster; LS Cordell (eds) Chilies to Chocolate: Food the Americas Gave the World, pp. 1-14 [history; food species].

Day I (2000) Eat, Drink, and Be Merry -- the British at the Table, 1600-2000. Wilson [history; social life; food habits; feasting; breakfast; tea time; drinking customs; Europe; England].

Dembinska M (1999) Food and Drink in Medieval Poland: Rediscovering a Cuisine of the Past. University of Pennsylvania [history; food habits; cookery; Europe; Poland].

Dietler M (1996) Feasts and Commensal Politics in the Political Economy. in P Wiessner; W Schiefenhovel (eds) Food and the Status Quest. Berghahn, pp. 87-125 [prehistory; feasting; social relations; Western Europe].

Recommended -- click for detailsDrummond JC; Wilbraham A (1957) The Englishman's Food [history; food habits; Europe; England].

Elias N (1982) The Civilizing Process. Pantheon [history; manners; social life; Europe].

Faas P (2002) Around the Table of the Romans: Food and Feasting in Ancient Rome. Palgrave Macmillan Press [history; festival; Europe].

Feldman C (2005) Roman Taste. Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research. 8:7-30 [history; preference; social status; Europe; Rome].

Fenton A; Kisban E (1986) Food in Change: Eating Habits from the Middle Ages to the Present Day. John Donald [history; foodways; Europe].

Few M (2005) Chocolate, Sex, and Disorderly Women in Late-Seventeenth- and Early-Eighteenth-Century Guatemala. Ethnohistory. 52:673-687 [history; eighteenth century; beverage; women; ritual; conflict; magic; ceremonial power; Central America; Guatemala].

Fidanza F (1979) Diets and Dietary Recommendations in Ancient Greece and Rome and the School of Salerno. Progress in Food and Nutrition Science. 3:79-99 [history; Europe].

Compelling anthropometric history -- click for detailsFlandrin JL; Montanari M (1999) Food: A Culinary History from Antiquity to the Present. Columbia University Press [collected essays; history; classical world; Middle Ages; Europe; Western culture].

Fogel RW (2004) The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World. Cambridge University Press [history; dietary change; anthropometrics; technophysio (cultural) evolution; Europe; North America].

Forster E; Forster R (1975) European Diet from Pre-Industrial to Modern Times [history; Europe].

Forster R; Orest R (1979) Food and Drink in History Selected from the Annales [history; Europe].

Freeman J (2004) The Making of the Modern Kitchen. Berg [history; contemporary culture; cookery; utensiles; applicances; symbol and meaning; Europe; United Kingdom].

Garnsey P (1988) Famine and Food Supply in the Greaco-Roman World: Responses to Risk and Crisis. Cambridge University Press [history; starvation; causes; social and political responses; Europe; Greece; Rome].

Recommended -- click for detailsGarnsey P (1999) Food and Society in Classical Antiquity. Cambridge University Press [history; food availability; nutritional status; Europe].

Glants M; Toombe JS (1997) Food in Russian History and Culture. Indiana University Press [collected essays; history; Europe; Central Asia; Russia; Soviet Union].

Glanville P; Young H (2002) Elegant Eating: Four Hundred Years of Dining in Style. V & A Publications [collected essays; history; food habits; table settings; decorations; Europe].

Goldstein D; Merkle K (2005) Culinary Cultures of Europe - Identity, Diversity and Dialogue. Council of Europe [collected essays; history; food habits; meaning; Europe].

Recommended -- click for detailsGrivetti LE; Corlett JL; Lockett CT (2001) Food in American History, Part 1: Maize Boutiful Gifts: America on the Eve of European Colonization (Antiquity to 1565). Nutrition Today. 36:19-28 [history; food use; North America; United States].

Gronow J (2003) Caviar with Champagne: Common Luxury and the Ideals of the Good Life in Stalin's Russia [history; foodways; hunger; Soviet society; Europe; West Asia; Russia].

Guy K (2003) When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity. Johns Hopkins University Press [history; food and place; symbol and meaning; branding; nationality; marketing; Europe; France].

Helstosky CF (2004) Garlic and Oil: Food and Politics in Italy. Berg [history; culinary culture; Europe].

Henish B (1976) Fast and Feast: Food in Medieval Society [history; fasting; feasts; foodways; Europe].

Herrscher E; Bocherens H; Valentin F, et al. (2001) Dietary Behaviour of the Medieval Period in Grenoble: Isotopic Biogeochemistry of Saint-Laurent Cemetery (Xiiith-Xvth Ad, Isere, France). Comptes Rendus-academie Des Sciences Paris Serie 3. 324:479-488 [history; dietary intake; Europe; France].

Recommended -- click for detailsJacobs M; Scholliers P (2003) Eating out in Europe: Picnics, Gourmet Dinning and Snacks since the Late Eighteenth Century. Berg [collected essays; history; urbanization; Europe].

Jordan WC (1996) The Great Famine: Norther Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century [history; food shortage; Europe].

Kelleher M (1997) The Feminization of Famine: Representations of Women in Famine Naratives. Duke University Press [images and symbols; famine; gender; history; Europe; South Asia; Ireland; India; Bengal].

Kinealy C (1995) This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine, 1845-52. Gill and Macmillan [history; famine; Europe; Ireland].

Kisban E (1986) Food Habits in Change: The Example of Europe. in A Fenton; E Kisban (eds) Eating Habits from the Middle Ages to the Present Day. John Donaldson, pp. 2-10 [history; cultural change; Europe].

Kuster H (2000) Northern Europe -- Germany and Surrounding Regions. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1226-1231 [prehistory; history; Europe].

Kuvandziev G (1999) The Bulgarian Popular Dietary Tradition During the Middle Ages. Bulgarian Historical Review. 27:10- [history; Europe; Bulgaria].

Laudan R (2000) Birth of the Modern Diet. Scientific American. 283:76-81 [history; symbolic meaning; classification of foods; Europe].

Lehmann G (2003) The British Housewife: Cookery Books, Cooking and Society in 18th-Century Britain. Prospect Books [history; cookery; table manners; meals; social relations; social class; anotated bibliography; Europe].

Lucas A (1960) Irish Food before the Potato. Gwerin. 3:1-36 [history; diet; Europe; Ireland].

Mason L (1998) Sugar-Plums and Sherbet: The Prehistory of Sweets. Prospect Books [history; foodstuffs; confections; candy making; Europe; United Kingdom].

Mason L (2000) Food and the Rites of Passage [collected papers; history; life crisis; ritual; feasts; social life; Europe; Recommended -- click for detailsEngland; Ireland].

Recommended -- click for detailsMcGovern P; Fleming S; Solomon K (1995) The Origins and Ancient History of Wine. Gordon and Breach [collected essays; foodstuff; history; Middle East; Europe; Mediterranean].

Mennell S (1986) All Manners of Food: Eating and Taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to the Present [history; Europe; England; France].

Messer E (1997) Three Centuries of Changing European Tastes for Potato. in H Macbeth (ed) Food Preferences and Taste. Berghahn, pp. 101-113 [history; food use; cultural change; Europe].

Moggi-Cecchi J; Pacciani E; Pinto-Cisternas J (1994) Enamel Hypoplasia and Age at Weaning in 19th Century Florence, Italy. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 93:299-306 [history; infant feeding; health & disease; Europe].

Murton B (2000) Australia and New Zealand. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1339-1350 [history; contemporary food habits; modernization; Oceania; European immigrants; Australians Aborigines; Maori].

Neset T-S; Lohm U (2005) Spatial Imprint of Food Consumption: A Historical Analysis for Sweden, 1870-2000. Human Ecology. 33:565-580 [ecology; history; geography; food consumption; Europe].

Nestle M (2000) The Mediterranean (Diets and Disease Prevention). in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1193-1203 [history; contemporary food habits;; diet and health; Europe; Mediterranean].

Essential Reference -- click for detailsOddy D (1989) A Nutritional Analysis of Historical Evidence: The Working-Class Diet. in D Oddy; D Miller (eds) Making of the Modern British Diet, 1880-1914. Croom Helm [history; historical analysis of diet; Europe; Great Britain].

O'Grada C (1989) The Great Irish Famine. MacMillan [history; famine; Europe; Ireland].

Otterloo van AH (2000) The Low Countries. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1232-1240 [history; contemporary food habits; modernization; globalization; Europe].

Palmer A (1952) Moveable Feasts: Changes in English Eating-Habits. Oxford University Press [history; Europe; England].

Parasecoli F (2003) Postrevolutionary Chowhounds: Food, Globalization, and the Italian Left Gastronomica, pp. 29-39 [history; politics; meaning; modern food system; Europe; Italy].

Recommended -- click for detailsPatterson KD (2000) Russia. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1240-1247 [history; Europe].

Pitte J-R (2002) French Gastronomy: The History and Geography of a Passion. Columbia University Press [history; contemporary food habits; microclimates: cultural space; Europe; France].

Poirteir C (1995) The Great Irish Famine. Mercier [history; famine; Europe; Ireland].

Pollington S (2003) The Mead-Hall: The Feasting Tradition in Anglo-Saxon England. Anglo-Saxon Books [history; feasts; ritual meals; Europe].

Rabinovich M (1992) Ethnological Studies in the Traditional Food of the Russians, Ukrainians and Byelorussians between the 16th and 19th Centuries: State of Research and Basic Problems. in HJ Teuteberg (ed) European Food History: A Research Review, pp. 224-235 [history; Europe].

Recommended -- click for detailsRebora G (2001) Culture of the Fork: A Brief History of Food in Europe. Columbia University Press [history; food habits; food supply; cookery; Europe].

Redon O; Sabban F; Serventi S (1998) The Medieval Kitchen. University of Chicago Press [history; foodways; cookery; Europe; France; Italy].

Renner HD (1944) The Origin of Food Habits [history; foodways; Europe].

Revel J-F (1987) Culture and Cuisine: A Journey through the History of Food [history; foodways; Europe; France].

Recommended -- click for detailsRognvaldardottir N (2002) Icelandic Food and Cookery [history; contemporary food habits; customs; foodstuffs; Europe].

Recommended -- click for detailsSaffron I (2002) Caviar: The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the World's Most Coveted Delicacy. Broadway Books [foodstuff; contemporary trade; ecology; pollution; history; Europe; Western Asia; Caspian Sea].

Scally RJ (1995) The End of Hidden Ireland: Rebellion, Famine and Emigration. Oxford University Press [history; disaster; Europe].

Scharer MR; Fenton A (1998) Food and Material Culture: Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium of the International Commission for Research into European Food History. Tuckwell Press [collected papers; food processing; kitchen appliances; tableware; industrial production; food preservation; Europe].

Schmid Neset TS (2004) Reconstructing Swedish Food Consumption from Hospital Diets after 1870. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 43:149-179 [history; food use; ecology; environmental impact; Europe].

Scholliers P (2001) Food, Drink and Identity: Cooking, Eating and Drinking in Europe since the Middle Ages. Berg [collected essays; history; social identity; symbol and meaning; Europe].

Schwartz J (1991) The Great Food Migration Newsweek, pp. 58-62 [history; diffusion; food use; Europe; North American Indians].

Smith REF; Christian D (1984) Bread and Salt: A Social and Economic History of Food and Drink in Russia. Cambridge University Press Recommended -- click for details[history; food habits; foodways; food use; cookery; Europe; Eurasia; Russia; Soviet Union].

Spang RL (2000) The Invention of the Restaurant. Harvard University Press [history; Europe; France].

Spencer C (2000) The British Isles. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1217-1226 [prehistory; history; Europe; Great Britain].

Spencer C (2003) British Food: An Extraordinary Thousand Years of History. Columbia University Press [history; ethnic food habits: English, Scottish, Welsh; cookery; Europe; United Kingdom].

Stead J (2004) Georgian Cookery: Recipes and History. English Heritage [history; food habits; kitchen equipment; etiquette; Europe; England].

Stearns PN (1997) Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West. New York University Press [body imagine; dieting; Europe; North America; France; United States].

Sussman GD (1982) Selling Mother's Milk the Wet-Nursing Business in France 1715-1914 [history; lactation; infant feeding; Europe; France].

Recommended -- click for detailsTames R (2003) Feed London: A Taste of History. Phillimore [history; markets; eating places; diet; social conditions; social class; Europe; England].

Terrio S (2000) Crafting the Culture and History of French Chocolate. University of California Press [food use; cacao; chocolatiers; manufacture; Europe; Basque; France].

Teuteberg HJ (1975) The General Relationship between Diet and Industrialization. in E Forster; R Forster (eds) European Diet from Pre-Industrial to Modern Times [history; food habit change; Europe].

Teuteberg HJ (1992) European Food History: A Research Review. Leicester University Press [collected essays; history; Europe].

Tilly LA (1983) Food Entitlement, Famine, and Conflict. Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 14:333-349 [history; famine; social relations; Europe; England; France].

Trubek A (2000) Haute Cuisine: How the French Invented the Culinary Profession. University of Pennsylvania Press [culture history; cookery; 19th century; Europe; France].

Turner J (2004) Spice: The History of a Temptation. Alfred A. Knopf [flavor; seasonings; Europe].

Ungar RW (2004) Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. University of Pennsylvania Press [history; foodstuff; Europe].

Visser M (1987) Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos, of an Ordinary Meal. Grove Press [Europe; england; taboos and avoidances; history; mythology; dinning].

Visser M (1991) The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners. Grove Weidenfeld [history; table manners; Europe].

Required Reading -- click for detailsWaterlow JC (1989) Diet of the Classical Period of Greece and Rome. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 43:3-12 [history; Europe; Greece; Rome].

Wheaton B (1983) Savoring the Past: The French Kitchen and Table from 1300 to 1789. University of Pennsylvania Press [history; Europe; France].

White E (2000) Feeding a City: York: The Provision of Food from Roman Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century. Prospect Books [collected papers; archaeology; history; food supply; cookery; industrial food; Europe; England; York].

Wilkins J (2001) Eating a L'ancienne, the Lesson of Galen. Petits Propos Culinaires. 68:18-28 [history; Europe].

Great History -- click for detailsWilson A (1973) Food and Drink in Britain: From the Stone Age to Recent Times. Constable [food history; Europe; Great Britain].

Recommended -- click for detailsWoodham-Smith C (1962) The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849 [history; famine; Europe; Ireland].

Wright CA (1999) A Mediterranean Feast: The Story of the Birth of the Celebrated Cuisines of the Mediterranean from the Merchants of Venice to the Barbary Corsairs, with More Than 500 Recipes. William Morrow [history; cookery; Europe; Middle East; North Africa].

Zohary D; Hopf M (2000) Dometication of Plants in the Old World: The Origin and Spread of Cultivated Plants in West Asia, Europe, and the Nile Valley. Clarendon Press [prehistory; origins of domestications; Europe; Near East; North Africa (Nile Valley); West Asia].

Zuckerman L (1999) The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World. North Point [foodstuff; history; Europe; North America; Ireland; England; France; United States].

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