Belasco, Warren An Appetite for Change (Pantheon, 1990)
Boorstin, Daniel The Americans, 3 vols. (New York, 1965)
Cummings, Richard O. The American and His Food (Chicago, 1941)
Farb, Peter & George Armelogos Consuming Passions:The Anthropology of Eating (Boston, 1980)
Hooker, Richard Food and Drink in America: A History (Bobbs-Merill, 1981)
Jones, Evan. American Food: The Gastronomic Story, 2nd. ed. (Vintage Books, 1981)
Lender, Mark & James Kirby Martin Drinking in America (NY, 1982)
Levenstein, Harvey Revolution at Table: The Transformation of the American Diet (Oxford, 1988)
Levenstein, Harvey Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America (Oxford, 1993)
McPhee, John Oranges (NY, 1967)
Norman, Barbara Tales of the Table: A History of Western Cuisine (NY, 1972)
Root, Waverly & Richard De RochmontEating in America: A History (NY, 1976)
Salaman, Redcliffe The History and Social Influence of the Potato (Cambridge, 1949)
Stern, Jane & Michael Stern Square Meals (Knopf, 1984)
Tannahill, Reay Food in History (NY, 1973)
Thomas, Keith Man and the Natural World: A History of the Modern Sensibility (NY, 1983)
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Consumption of Foods in the US, 1909-1952. Ag. Handbook no. 62 (Washington, DC, 1953)
Young, James Harvey “The Agile Role of Food: Some Historical Reflections,” in Nutrition and Drug Interrelations (Academic Press, 1978)
Bourdieu, Pierre Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste (Cambridge, Harvard Univ. Press, 1984)
Douglas, Mary “Deciphering a Meal” Daedalus 101 (Winter, 1972), 61-81
Goody, Jack Cooking, Class and Cuisine (Cambridge, 1982)
Levi-Strauss, Claude The Raw and the Cooked (NY, 1975)
Levi-Strauss, Claude The Origins of Table Manners (NY, 1978)
Agriculture, Living Standards, Material Life
Appleby, Andrew “Nutrition and Disease: The Case of London, 1550-1750,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 6 (Summer, 1975), 1-22
Blaxter, Kenneth & Noel Robertson ; From Dearth to Plenty: The Modern Revolution in Food Production (Cambridge, 1995)
Braudel, Ferdninad The Structures of Everyday Life, 3 vols. (NY, 1981)
Carpenter, Kenneth Protein and Energy: A Study of Changing Ideas of Nutrition (Cambridge, 1994)
Forster, Robert & Elborg Forster The European Diet from Pre-Industrial to Modern Times (NY, 1975)
Forster, Robert & Orest Ranum Biology of Man in History (Baltimore, 1975)
Gallman, Robert & John Wallis American Economic Growth and Standards of Living Before the Civil War (Chicago, 1992)
Gray, Lewis History of Agriculture in the Southern US to 1860 (Washington, 1933)
Hillard, Sam Hog Meat and Hoe Cake: Food Supply in the Old South (Carbondale, IL, 1972)
Komlos, John, ed., The Biological Standard of Living on Three Continents: Further Explorations in Anthropometric History (Boulder, 1995)
Ladurie, Le Roy E. Times of Feast, Times of Famine: A History of Climate since the Year 1000 (NY, 1971)
Langer, William “American Foods and Europe’s Population Growth,” Journal of Social History (Winter, 1975), 51-66
Lindert, Peter & Jeffrey Williamson ; “Three Centuries of American Inequality,” in P. Uselding, ed., Research in Economic History vol. 1 (Greenwich, JAI, 1976), 69-123.
Malthus, Thomas Essay on Population [1798]
Margo, Robert & Richard Steckel “The Height of American Slaves: New Evidence on Slave Nutrition and Health,” Social Science History 6:4 (1982), 516-38
Margo, Robert & “Heights of Native Born Northern Whites during the Antebellum Period” Journal Richard Steckel of Economic History 43:1 (1983), 167-74.
Post, John D. The Last Great Subsistence Crisis in the Western World (Baltimore, 1977)
Roe, Daphne A Plague of Corn (Ithaca, 1973)
Shergold, Peter. Working Class Life: The “American Standard” in Comparative Perspective, 1899-1913 (Pittsburgh, 1982)
Stott, Richard Workers in the Metropolis: Class, Ethnicity and Youth in Antebellum New York City (Cornell, 1990)
Wrigley, E. A. Population & History (NY, 1969)
Crosby, Alfred The Colombian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (Greenwood, 1972)
Curtin, Philip Cross-Cultural Trade in World History (Cambridge, 1984)
Hobhouse, Henry Seeds of Change: Five Plants that Transformed Mankind (NY, Harper Collins, 1995)
Kloppenberg, Jack First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology, 1492-2000 (Cambridge, 1990)
McNeill, William Plagues and People (NY, 1976)
Mintz, Sidney Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (NY, 1985)
Salaman, Redcliffe The History and Social Influence of the Potato (Cambridge, 1949)
Woodham-Smith, Cecil The Great Hunger, Ireland, 1845-49 (NY, 1962)
Alpers, Robert The Good Provider: H. J. Heinz and his 57 Varieties (Boston, 1973)
Belasco, Warren. “Toward A Culinary Common Denominator: The Rise of Howard Johnson’s, 1925-1940,” Journal of Culture 2 (1979)
Bell, Martin A Portrait of Progress: A Business History of Pet Milk Company, 1885-1960 (St. Louis, 1962)
Clarke, John The Grain Trade in the Old Northwest (Urbana, IL, 1966)
Carson, Gerald. Corn Flake Crusade (NY, Rinehart, 1957)
Cochran, Thomas The Pabst Brewing Company (NY, 1948)
Dobie, J. Frank Up the Trail from Texas (NY, 1955)
Eichner, Alfred. The Emergence of Oligopoly: Sugar Refining as a Case Study (Baltimore, 1969)
Gideon, Sigfried Mechanization Takes Command (NY, 1948)
Gray, James Business Without Boundaries: The Story of General Mills (Minnesota, 1954)
Hirschhorn, Paul & Steven Izenour White Towers (MIT, 1981)
Jordan, Terry North American Cattle Ranching Frontier: Origins, Diffusion and Differentiation (University of New Mexico, 1993)
Lampard, Eric. The Rise of the Dairy Industry in Wisconsin (Madison, 1963)
Langdon, Philip Orange Roofs and Golden Arches: The Architecture of American Chain Restaurants (Knopf, 1986)
Love, John McDonald’s: Behind the Golden Arches (Bantam, 1986)
Skaggs, Jimmy Prime Cut: Livestock Raising and Meatpacking in the US, 1607-1983 (Texas A&M, 1986)
Skaggs, Jimmy The Great Guano Rush: Entrepreneurs and American Overseas Expansion (St. Martins, 1995)
Storck, John & Walter Teague Flour for Man’s Bread: A History of Milling
Stuyvenberg, J. H. van Margarine: and Economic, Social and Scientific History, 1869-1969 (Liverpool, 1969)
Yeager, Mary Competition and Regulation: The Development of Oligopoly in the Meatpacking Industry (Greenwood, 1981)
Busch, Jane “Cooking Competition: Technology and the Domestic Market in the 1930s,” Technology and Culture 24:2 (April, 1983), 222-45
Cowan, Ruth S. More Work for Mother (NY, Basic, 1983)
Crosby, Alfred The Colombian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (Greenwood, 1972)
Hayden, Dolores. The Great Domestic Revolution (Cambridge, MIT, 1981)
Hirschhorn, Paul & Steven Izenour White Towers (MIT, 1981)
Katzman, David Seven Days a Week: Women and Service in Industrializing America (NY, Oxford University Press, 1978)
Strasser, Susan. Never Done: A History of American Housework (NY, Pantheon, 1982)
Stuyvenberg, J. H. van Margarine: and Economic, Social and Scientific History,1869-1969 (Liverpool, 1969)
Wright, Gwendolyn. Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America (NY, Pantheon, 1981)
Bayard, Tania.,ed., A Medieval Home Companion: Housekeeping in the 14th Century (NY, Harper Collins, 1995)
Beecher, Catherine & Harriet Beecher Stowe The American Woman’s Home [1869]
Beecher, Catherine Treatise on Domestic Economy for the Use of Young Ladies at Home and School [1843]
Belasco, Warren An Appetite for Change (Pantheon, 1990)
Carson, Gerald. Corn Flake Crusade (NY, Rinehart, 1957)
Corson, Juliet The Cooking Manual [1879]
Crowinshield, Francis Manners for the Metropolis [1909]
della Casa, Giovanni Galateo, or the Book of Manners
De Tocqueville, Alexis Democracy in America
Dickens, Charles American Notes
Douglas, Mary Natural Symbols (NY, 1978)
Douglas, Mary “Deciphering a Meal” Daedalus 101 (Winter, 1972), 61-81
Elias, Norbert The Civilizing Process: The History of Manners (NY, 1978)
Erasmus Civility
Fischler, Claude “Attitudes toward Sugar and Sweetness in Historical and Sociological Perspective” in J. Dobbing, ed., Sweetness (Springer-Verlag, 1987)
Gilman, Charlotte P. What Diantha Did (London, Unwin, 1912)
Hale, Sarah. Mrs. Hale’s New Cook Book (Philadelphia, 1857)
Hamilton, Thomas Men and Manners in America (Edinburgh, 1833)
Hutchinson, E. The New Family Book or Ladies Indispensable Companion & Housekeeping Guide....
Jeanneret, Michel A Feast of Words: Banquets and Table Talk in the Renaissance (Chicago, 1991)
Jefferson, Thomas Notes on the State of Virginia
Levi-Strauss, Claude The Origins of Table Manners (NY, 1978)
Martineau, Harriet Society in America [1837]
Ritvo, Harriet The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age (Harvard, 1987)
Schapiro, Laura Perfection Salad (NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Schlesinger, Arthur, Sr. Learning How to Behave: A Historical Study of American Etiquette Books
(NY, 1947)
Sherwood, Mary Etiquette, The American Code of Manners (NY, 1884)
Sherwood, Mary The Art of Entertaining (NY, 1892)
Sklar, Catherine Kish Catherine Beecher: A Study in Domesticity (NY, Norton, 1976)
Smith, John The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England.... (1626)
Taylor, Lawrence “Coffee: The Bottomless Cup,” in Arews and Montague, eds., The American Dimension: Cultural Myths and Social Realities (Pt. Washington, NY, 1977)
Thomas, Keith Man and the Natural World: A History of the Modern Sensibility (NY, 1983)
Trollope, Frances Domestic Manners of the Americans [1832] (NY, Dodd, Mead, 1927)
William, Susan. Savory Suppers and Fashionable Feasts: Dining in Victorian America (NY, Pantheon, 1985)
Regulation and Politics
Carson, Rachel Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 1962)
Dreze, Jean & Amartya Sen Hunger and Public Action (NY, Oxford, 1990)
Etheridge, Elizabeth. The Butterfly Caste: A Social History of Pellagra in the South (Westport, 1971)
Gompers, Samuel “Meat vs. Rice: Some Reasons for Chinese Exclusion,” U.S. Senate, 57th Congress, 1st sess., Doc. 137 (Washington, GPO, 1902)
Levenstein, Harvey Revolution at Table: The Transformation of the American Diet (Oxford, 1988)
Levenstein, Harvey Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America (Oxford, 1993)
Mancall, Peter Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America (Cornell, 1995)
Numbers, Ronald Prophetess of Health: A Study of Ellen G. White (NY, 1976)
Poppendieck, Janet. Breadlines Knee Deep in Wheat: Food Assistance in the Great Depression
(Rutgers, 1986)
Post, John D. The Last Great Subsistence Crisis in the Western World (Baltimore, 1977)
Rude, George The Crowd in History (NY, 1964)
Temin, Peter Taking Your Medicine: Drug Regulation in the United States (Harvard, 1980)
Whorton, James Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and Public Health in Pree DDT America (Princeton, 1974)
Young, James Harvey Pure Food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906 (Princeton, 1989)
Young, James Harvey The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Quackery in Twentieth Century America (Princeton, 1967)
Young, James Sterling The Washington Community, 1800-1826 (NY, 1966)
Banner, Lois American Beauty (Chicago, 1983)
Bromberg, Joan Fasting Girls (Basic Books, 1988)
Carpenter, Kenneth Protein and Energy: A Study of Changing Ideas of Nutrition (Cambridge, 1994)
Chase, Chris The Great American Waistline (NY, Coward, McCann, 1981)
Kaplan, J. R. ed. A Woman’s Conflict: The Special Relationship between Women and Food(Englewood Cliffs, 1980)
Levenstein, Harvey Revolution at Table: The Transformation of the American Diet (Oxford, 1988)
Levenstein, Harvey Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America (Oxford, 1993)
Schapiro, Laura Perfection Salad (NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Schwartz, Hillel Never Satisfied: A Cultural History of Diets, Fantasies and Fat (Free Press, 1986)
Stern, Jane & Michael Stern Square Meals (Knopf, 1984)
Brown, Linda & Kay MussellEthnic and Regional Foodways in America: The Performance of Ethnic Identity (University of Tennessee, 1984)
Douglas, Mary Natural Symbols (NY, 1978)
Etheridge, Elizabeth. The Butterfly Caste: A Social History of Pellagra in the South (Westport, 1971)
Goody, Jack Cooking, Class and Cuisine (Cambridge, 1982)
Hillard, Sam Hog Meat and Hoe Cake: Food Supply in the Old South (Carbondale, IL, 1972)
Jefferson, Thomas Notes on the State of Virginia
Jordan, Terry North American Cattle Ranching Frontier: Origins, Diffusion and Differentiation (University of New Mexico, 1993)
Kennedy, Diana The Cuisines of Mexico (NY, 1986)
Levenstein, Harvey Revolution at Table: The Transformation of the American Diet (Oxford, 1988)
Levenstein, Harvey Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America (Oxford, 1993)
Levenstein, Harvey “The American Response to Italian Food,” Food and Foodways, vol. 1, no. 1 (1985)
Levenstein, Harvey “The Food Habits of Italian Immigrants into America: An Examination of the Persistence of a Food Culture and the Rise of “Fast Food” in America, in Ray Browne, et. al. eds., Dominant Symbols in Popular Culture (Bowling Green, 1990)
Mancall, Peter Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America (Cornell, 1995)
Olmsted, Fred. Law A Journey in the Back Country [1860]
Olmsted, Fred. Law A Journey Through Texas [1857
Olmsted, Fred. Law A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States [1856]
Smith, John The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England.... (1626)
Taylor, Lawrence “Coffee: The Bottomless Cup,” in Arews and Montague, eds., The American Dimension: Cultural Myths and Social Realities (Pt. Washington, NY, 1977)
Trillin, Calvin American Fried: Adventures of a Happy Eater (NY, 1974)
Walter, Eugene American Cooking, Southern Style
Beecher, Catherine & Harriet Beecher Stowe The American Woman’s Home [1869]
Beecher, Catherine Treatise on Domestic Economy for the Use of Young Ladies at Home and School [1843]
Corson, Juliet The Cooking Manual [1879]
Crowinshield, Francis Manners for the Metropolis [1909]
della Casa, Giovanni Galateo, or the Book of Manners
De Tocqueville, Alexis Democracy in America
Dickens, Charles American Notes
Erasmus Civility
Gilman, Charlotte P. What Diantha Did (London, Unwin, 1912)
Gompers, Samuel “Meat vs. Rice: Some Reasons for Chinese Exclusion,” U.S. Senate, 57th Congress, 1st sess., Doc. 137 (Washington, GPO, 1902)
Hale, Sarah. Mrs. Hale’s New Cook Book (Philadelphia, 1857)
Hamilton, Thomas Men and Manners in America (Edinburgh, 1833)
Hutchinson, E. The New Family Book, or Ladies Indispensable Companion & Housekeeping Guide....
Jefferson, Thomas Notes on the State of Virginia
Malthus, Thomas Essay on Population [1798]
Martineau, Harriet Society in America [1837]
Olmstead, Fred. Law A Journey in the Back Country [1860]
Olmstead, Fred. Law A Journey Through Texas [1857
Olmstead, Fred. Law A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States [1856]
Sherwood, Mary Etiquette, The American Code of Manners (NY, 1884)
Sherwood, Mary The Art of Entertaining (NY, 1892)
Smith, John The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England.... (1626)
Trollope, Frances Domestic Manners of the Americans [1832] (NY, Dodd, Mead, 1927)
Alpers, Robert. The Good Provider: H. J. Heinz and his 57 Varieties (Boston, 1973)
Appleby, Andrew “Nutrition and Disease: The Case of London, 1550-1750,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 6 (Summer, 1975), 1-22
Banner, Lois American Beauty (Chicago, 1983)
Bayard, Tania.,ed., A Medieval Home Companion: Housekeeping in the 14th Century (NY, Harper Collins, 1995)
Beecher, Catherine & Harriet Beecher Stowe The American Woman’s Home [1869]
Beecher, Catherine Treatise on Domestic Economy for the Use of Young Ladies at Home and School [1843]
Belasco, Warren. “Toward A Culinary Common Denominator: The Rise of Howard Johnson’s, 1925-1940,” Journal of Culture 2 (1979)
Belasco, Warren An Appetite for Change (Pantheon, 1990)
Bell, Martin A Portrait of Progress: A Business History of Pet Milk Company, 1885-1960 (St. Louis, 1962)
Blaxter, Kenneth & Noel Robertson From Dearth to Plenty: The Modern Revolution in Food Production (Cambridge, 1995)
Boorstin, Daniel The Americans, 3 vols. (New York, 1965)
Bourdieu, Pierre Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste (Cambridge, Harvard Univ. Press, 1984)
Braudel, Ferdninad The Structures of Everyday Life, 3 vols. (NY, 1981)
Bromberg, Joan Fasting Girls (Basic Books, 1988)
Brown, Linda & Kay MussellEthnic and Regional Foodways in America: The Performance of Ethnic Identity (University of Tennessee, 1984)
Busch, Jane “Cooking Competition: Technology and the Domestic Market in the 1930s,” Technology and Culture 24:2 (April, 1983), 222-45.
Carpenter, Kenneth Protein and Energy: A Study of Changing Ideas of Nutrition (Cambridge, 1994)
Carson, Gerald. Corn Flake Crusade (NY, Rinehart, 1957)
Carson, Rachel Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 1962)
Chase, Chris The Great American Waistline (NY, Coward, McCann, 1981)
Clarke, John The Grain Trade in the Old Northwest (Urbana, IL, 1966)
Cochran, Thomas The Pabst Brewing Company (NY, 1948)
Corson, Juliet The Cooking Manual [1879]
Cowan, Ruth S. More Work for Mother (NY, Basic, 1983)
Crosby, Alfred The Colombian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (Greenwood, 1972)
Crowinshield, Francis Manners for the Metropolis [1909]
Cummings, Richard O. The American and His Food (Chicago, 1941)
Curtin, Philip Cross-Cultural Trade in World History (Cambridge, 1984)
della Casa, Giovanni Galateo, or the Book of Manners
De Tocqueville, Alexis Democracy in America
Dickens, Charles American Notes
Dobie, J. Frank Up the Trail from Texas (NY, 1955)
Douglas, Mary Natural Symbols (NY, 1978)
Douglas, Mary “Deciphering a Meal” Daedalus 101 (Winter, 1972), 61-81
Dreze, Jean & Amartya Sen Hunger and Public Action (NY, Oxford, 1990)
Eichner, Alfred. The Emergence of Oligopoly: Sugar Refining as a Case Study (Baltimore, 1969)
Elias, Norbert The Civilizing Process: The History of Manners (NY, 1978)
Erasmus Civility
Etheridge, Elizabeth. The Butterfly Caste: A Social History of Pellagra in the South (Westport, 1971)
Farb, Peter & George Armelogos Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Eating (Boston, 1980)
Fischler, Claude “Attitudes toward Sugar and Sweetness in Historical and Sociological Perspective” in J. Dobbing, ed., Sweetness (Springer-Verlag, 1987)
Forster, Robert & The European Diet from Pre-Industrial to Modern Times (NY, 1975)
Elborg Forster
Forster, Robert & Orest Ranum Biology of Man in History (Baltimore, 1975)
Gallman, Robert & American Economic Growth and Standards of Living Before the Civil War
John Wallis (Chicago, 1992)
Gideon, Sigfried Mechanization Takes Command (NY, 1948)
Gilman, Charlotte P. What Diantha Did (London, Unwin, 1912)
Gompers, Samuel “Meat vs. Rice: Some Reasons for Chinese Exclusion,” U.S. Senate, 57th Congress, 1st sess., Doc. 137 (Washington, GPO, 1902)
Goody, Jack Cooking, Class and Cuisine (Cambridge, 1982)
Gray, James Business Without Boundaries: The Story of General Mills (Minnesota, 1954)
Gray, Lewis History of Agriculture in the Southern US to 1860 (Washington, 1933)
Hale, Sarah. Mrs. Hale’s New Cook Book (Philadelphia, 1857)
Hamilton, Thomas Men and Manners in America (Edinburgh, 1833)
Hayden, Dolores The Great Domestic Revolution (Cambridge, MIT, 1981)
Hillard, Sam Hog Meat and Hoe Cake: Food Supply in the Old South (Carbondale, IL, 1972)
Hirschhorn, Paul & Steven Izenour White Towers (MIT, 1981)
Hobhouse, Henry Seeds of Change: Five Plants that Transformed Mankind (NY, Harper Collins, 1995)
Hooker, Richard Food and Drink in America: A History (Bobbs-Merill, 1981)
Hutchinson, E. The New Family Book, or Ladies Indispensable Companion & Housekeeping Guide....
Jeanneret, Michel A Feast of Words: Banquets and Table Talk in the Renaissance (Chicago, 1991)
Jefferson, Thomas Notes on the State of Virginia
Jones, Evan. American Food: The Gastronomic Story, 2nd. ed. (Vintage Books, 1981)
Jordan, Terry North American Cattle Ranching Frontier: Origins, Diffusion and Differentiation (University of New Mexico, 1993)
Kaplan, J. R. ed. A Woman’s Conflict: The Special Relationship between Women and Food (Englewood Cliffs, 1980)
Katzman, David Seven Days a Week: Women and Service in Industrializing America (NY, Oxford University Press, 1978)
Kennedy, Diana The Cuisines of Mexico (NY, 1986)
Kloppenberg, Jack First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology, 1492-2000 (Cambridge, 1990)
Komlos, John, ed., The Biological Standard of Living on Three Continents: Further Explorations in Anthropometric History (Boulder, 1995)
Ladurie, Le Roy E. Times of Feast, Times of Famine: A History of Climate since the Year 1000 (NY, 1971)
Lampard, Eric The Rise of the Dairy Industry in Wisconsin (Madison, 1963)
Langdon, Philip Orange Roofs and Golden Arches: The Architecture of American Chain Restaurants (Knopf, 1986)
Langer, William “American Foods and Europe’s Population Growth,” Journal of Social History (Winter, 1975), 51-66
Lender, Mark & James Kirby Martin Drinking in America (NY, 1982)
Levenstein, Harvey Revolution at Table: The Transformation of the American Diet (Oxford, 1988)
Levenstein, Harvey Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America (Oxford, 1993)
Levenstein, Harvey “The American Response to Italian Food,” Food and Foodways, vol. 1, no. 1 (1985)
Levenstein, Harvey “The Food Habits of Italian Immigrants into America: An Examination of the Persistence of a Food Culture and the Rise of “Fast Food” in America, in Ray Browne, et. al. eds., Dominant Symbols in Popular Culture (Bowling Green,1990)
Levi-Strauss, Claude The Raw and the Cooked (NY, 1975)
Levi-Strauss, Claude The Origins of Table Manners (NY, 1978)
Lindert, Peter & Jeffrey Williamson “Three Centuries of American Inequality,” in P. Uselding, ed., Research in Economic History vol. 1 (Greenwich, JAI, 1976), 69-123.
Love, John McDonald’s: Behind the Golden Arches (Bantam, 1986)
McNeill, William Plagues and People (NY, 1976)
McPhee, John Oranges (NY, 1967)
Malthus, Thomas Essay on Population [1798]
Mancall, Peter Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America (Cornell, 1995)
Margo, Robert & Richard Steckel “The Height of American Slaves: New Evidence on Slave Nutrition and Health,” Social Science History 6:4 (1982), 516-38
Margo, Robert & “Heights of Native Born Northern Whites during the Antebellum Period” Journal Richard Steckel of Economic History 43:1 (1983), 167-74.
Martineau, Harriet Society in America [1837]
Mintz, Sidney Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (NY, 1985)
Norman, Barbara Tales of the Table: A History of Western Cuisine (NY, 1972)
Numbers, Ronald Prophetess of Health: A Study of Ellen G. White (NY, 1976)
Olmstead, Fred. Law A Journey in the Back Country [1860]
Olmstead, Fred. Law A Journey Through Texas [1857
Olmstead, Fred. Law A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States [1856]
Poppendieck, Janet. Breadlines Knee Deep in Wheat: Food Assistance in the Great Depression (Rutgers, 1986)
Post, John D. The Last Great Subsistence Crisis in the Western World (Baltimore, 1977)
Ritvo, Harriet The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age (Harvard, 1987)
Roe, Daphne A Plague of Corn (Ithaca, 1973)
Root, Waverly & Richard De Rochmont Eating in America: A History (NY, 1976)
Rude, George The Crowd in History (NY, 1964)
Salaman, Redcliffe The History and Social Influence of the Potato (Cambridge, 1949)
Schapiro, Laura Perfection Salad (NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Schlesinger, Arthur, Sr. Learning How to Behave: A Historical Study of American Etiquette Books (NY, 1947)
Schwartz, Hillel Never Satisfied: A Cultural History of Diets, Fantasies and Fat (Free Press, 1986)
Shergold, Peter. Working Class Life: The “American Standard” in Comparative Perspective, 1899-1913 (Pittsburgh, 1982)
Sherwood, Mary Etiquette, The American Code of Manners (NY, 1884)
Sherwood, Mary The Art of Entertaining (NY, 1892)
Skaggs, Jimmy Prime Cut: Livestock Raising and Meatpacking in the US, 1607-1983 (Texas A&M, 1986)
Skaggs, Jimmy The Great Guano Rush: Entrepreneurs and American Overseas Expansion (St. Martins, 1995)
Sklar, Catherine Kish Catherine Beecher: A Study in Domesticity (NY, Norton, 1976)
Smith, John The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England.... (1626)
Stern, Jane & Michael Stern Square Meals (Knopf, 1984)
Storck, John & Walter Teague Flour for Man’s Bread: A History of Milling
Stott, Richard Workers in the Metropolis: Class, Ethnicity and Youth in Antebellum New York City (Cornell, 1990)
Strasser, Susan. Never Done: A History of American Housework (NY, Pantheon, 1982)
Stuyvenberg, J. H. van Margarine: and Economic, Social and Scientific History, 1869-1969 (Liverpool, 1969)
Tannahill, Reay Food in History (NY, 1973)
Taylor, Lawrence “Coffee: The Bottomless Cup,” in Arews and Montague, eds., The American Dimension: Cultural Myths and Social Realities (Pt. Washington, NY, 1977)
Temin, Peter Taking Your Medicine: Drug Regulation in the United States (Harvard, 1980)
Thomas, Keith Man and the Natural World: A History of the Modern Sensibility (NY, 1983)
Trillin, Calvin American Fried: Adventures of a Happy Eater (NY, 1974)
Trollope, Frances Domestic Manners of the Americans [1832] (NY, Dodd, Mead, 1927)
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Consumption of Foods in the US, 1909-1952. Ag. Handbook no. 62 (Washington, DC, 1953)
Walter, Eugene American Cooking, Southern Style
Whorton, James Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and Public Health in Pree DDT America (Princeton, 1974)
William, Susan. Savory Suppers and Fashionable Feasts: Dining in Victorian America (NY, Pantheon, 1985)
Woodham-Smith, Cecil The Great Hunger, Ireland, 1845-49 (NY, 1962)
Wright, Gwendolyn. Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America (NY, Pantheon,1981)
Wrigley, E. A. Population & History (NY, 1969)
Yeager, Mary Competition and Regulation: The Development of Oligopoly in the Meatpacking Industry (Greenwood, 1981)
Young, James Harvey Pure Food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906 (Princeton, 1989)
Young, James Harvey The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Quackery in Twentieth Century America (Princeton, 1967)
Young, James Harvey “The Agile Role of Food: Some Historical Reflections,” in Nutrition and Drug Interrelations (Academic Press, 1978)
Young, James Sterling The Washington Community, 1800-1826 (NY, 1966)
Diner (US)
Dim Sum (China)
Eat Drink Man Woman (Taiwan)
Eat a Bowl of Tea (Japan)
Like Water for Chocolate (Mexico)
Tampopo (Japan)
Annual Review of Anthropology
Food and Foodways
Journal of Studies on Alcohol