Food, Glorious Food!

Delicious "biographies" of the foods and drinks we crave - and how the search for them changed the world.

The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell by Mark Kurlansky

Bittersweet: the Story of Sugar by Peter Macinnis

Dangerous Tastes: the Story of Spices by Andrew Dalby

The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars by Joel Glenn Brenner

Fast Food Nation : the Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser

Food in History by Reay Tannahill

A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage

Near a Thousand Tables: a History of Food by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company by Constance L. Hays

Salt: a World History by Mark Kurlansky

Spice: the History of a Temptation by Jack Turner

Sweet and Low: a Family Story by Rich Cohen

Sweetness and Power: the Place of Sugar in Modern History by Sidney Wilfred Mintz

Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated into What America Eats by Steve Ettlinger

Uncommon Grounds: the History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World by Mark Pendergrast