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Anna Zeide, “Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry” (U California Press, 2018)

52 mins; April 16, 2018

Sean Sherman, “The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen” (University of Minnesota Press, 2017)

30 mins; March 22, 2018

Peter A. Kopp, “Hoptopia: A World of Agriculture and Beer in Oregon’s Willamette Valley” (U California Press, 2016)

53 mins; March 09, 2018

Andrew Friedman, “Chefs, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll” (Ecco Press, 2018)

66 hours 29 mins; March 05, 2018

D. Harris and P. Guiffre, “Taking the Heat: Women Chefs and Gender Inequality in the Professional Kitchen” (Rutgers UP, 2015)

30 mins; February 22, 2018

Mark Padoongpatt, “Flavors of Empire: Food and the Making of Thai America” (U of California Press, 2017)

66 hours 32 mins; February 13, 2018

Johan Swinnen and Devin Briski, “Beeronomics: How Beer Explains the World” (Oxford UP, 2017)

36 mins; October 31, 2017

Bryant Simon, “The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives” (The New Press, 2017)

43 mins; October 06, 2017

Andrew Smith, “Terror and Terroir: The Winegrowers of the Languedoc and Modern France” (Manchester University Press, 2016)

61 hours 28 mins; October 06, 2017

Nina Savelle-Rocklin, “Food for Thought: Perspectives on Eating Disorders” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)

53 mins; September 12, 2017

Faegheh Shirazi, “Brand Islam: The Marketing and Commodification of Piety” (U. Texas Press, 2016)

30 mins; September 05, 2017

Alice Weinreb, “Modern Hungers: Food and Power in Twentieth-Century Germany” (Oxford UP, 2017)

54 mins; August 13, 2017

Sophie Egan, “Devoured: How What We Eat Defines Who We Are” (William Morrow, 2017)

54 mins; July 24, 2017

Michael W. Twitty, “The Cooking Gene: A Journey through African American Culinary History in the Old South” (Amistad, 2017)

105 hours 59 mins; June 19, 2017

Diana Kennedy, “Nothing Fancy: Recipes and Recollections of Soul-Satisfying Food” (U of Texas Press, 2016)

66 hours 26 mins; May 21, 2017

Demet Guzey, “Food on Foot: A History of Eating on Trails and in the Wild” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)

58 mins; May 14, 2017

Michaela DeSoucey, “Contested Tastes: Foie Gras and the Politics of Food” (Princeton UP, 2016)

65 hours 58 mins; March 25, 2017

Jordan D. Rosenblum, “The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World” (Cambridge UP, 2016)

47 mins; March 09, 2017

David B. Goldstein and Amy L. Tigner, eds. “Culinary Shakespeare: Staging Food and Drink in Early Modern England” (Duquesne UP, 2016)

45 mins; December 19, 2016

Christopher Woolgar, “The Culture of Food in England, 1200-1500” (Yale UP, 2016)

56 mins; September 30, 2016

Amy Wright, “Cracker Sonnets” (BrickRoad Poetry Press, 2016)

49 mins; August 18, 2016

Marta Zaraska, “Meathooked: The History and Science of our 2.5-Million-Year Obsession with Meat” (Basic Books, 2016)

42 mins; July 05, 2016

Sarah Wald, “The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl” (U. of Washington Press, 2016)

58 mins; June 28, 2016

Garrett M. Broad, “More Than Just Food: Food Justice and Community Change” (U of California Press, 2016)

55 mins; May 13, 2016

Roger Horowitz, “Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food” (Columbia UP, 2016)

32 mins; April 21, 2016

Jeff Koehler, “Darjeeling” (Bloomsbury, 2015)

82 hours 53 mins; March 31, 2016

Sarah Bowen, “Divided Spirits: Tequila, Mezcal, and the Politics of Production” (U of California Press, 2015)

42 mins; February 06, 2016

Cindy R. Lobel, “Urban Appetites: Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York” (U of Chicago Press, 2014)

54 mins; February 06, 2016

Jamie Koufman, “Dr. Koufman’s Acid Reflux Diet” (Katalitix, 2015)

56 mins; February 03, 2016

James A. Benn, “Tea in China: A Religious and Cultural History” (U of Hawaii Press, 2015)

62 hours 51 mins; January 04, 2016

Yael Raviv, “Falafel Nation: Cuisine and the Making of National Identity in Israel” (University of Nebraska Press, 2015)

42 mins; December 17, 2015

Francesca Bray et al.,eds., “Rice: Global Networks and New Histories” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

71 hours 28 mins; December 14, 2015

Ted Merwin, “Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli” (NYU Press, 2015)

31 mins; December 14, 2015

Anna L. Tsing, “The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins” (Princeton UP, 2015)

62 hours 46 mins; December 06, 2015

Matthew Gavin Frank, “The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour through America’s Food” (Liveright, 2015)

47 mins; November 29, 2015

Tom Jackson, “Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again” (Bloomsbury, 2015)

56 mins; August 19, 2015

Josh Kun, “To Live and Dine in L.A.: Menus and the Making of the Modern City” (Angel City Press, 2015)

52 mins; June 02, 2015

Reid Mitenbuler, “Bourbon Empire: The Past and Future of America’s Whiskey” (Viking, 2015)

45 mins; May 18, 2015

Tom Hertweck, “Food on Film” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)

69 hours 25 mins; April 26, 2015

Eugene N. Anderson, “Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)

62 hours 20 mins; March 15, 2015

Sarah Besky, “The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Plantations in India” (U of California Press, 2014)

46 mins; January 14, 2015

Laura Silver, “Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food” (Brandeis University Press, 2014)

53 mins; April 26, 2014

Leona Rittner, W. Scott Haine, and Jeffrey H. Jackson, eds. “The Thinking Space” (Ashgate, 2013)

68 hours 28 mins; March 27, 2014

Allen Salkin “From Scratch: Inside the Food Network” (Putnam, 2013)

65 hours 49 mins; October 05, 2013

Marlene Zuk, “Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live” (Norton, 2013)

57 mins; April 22, 2013

E. C. Spary, “Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the Sciences in Paris, 1670-1760” (University of Chicago Press, 2012)

65 hours 32 mins; February 18, 2013

Barak Kushner, “Slurp!: A Social and Culinary History of Ramen – Japan’s Favorite Noodle Soup” (Global Oriental, 2012)

68 hours 33 mins; December 20, 2012

Signe Rousseau, “Food and Social Media: You Are What You Tweet” (AltaMira Press, 2012)

54 mins; December 13, 2012

William Kerrigan, “Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard: A Cultural History” (Johns Hopkins, 2012)

60 hours 21 mins; November 18, 2012

Bob Spitz, “Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child” (Knopf, 2012)

37 mins; November 14, 2012

Catherine Higgs, “Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa” (Ohio University Press, 2012)

73 hours 54 mins; November 14, 2012

John S. Allen, “The Omnivorous Mind: Our Evolving Relationship to Food” (Harvard University Press, 2012)

52 mins; October 23, 2012

Andrew P. Haley, "Turning the Tables: Restaurants and the Rise of the American Middle Class, 1880-1920" (UNC Press, 2011)

52 mins; September 07, 2012

Roel Sterckx, “Food, Sacrifice, and Sagehood in Early China” (Cambridge UP, 2011)

69 hours 47 mins; August 11, 2012

Merry White, “Coffee Life in Japan” (University of California Press, 2012)

51 mins; June 15, 2012

Orla Ryan, “Chocolate Nations: Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa” (Zed Books, 2011)

49 mins; April 27, 2012

Cecilia Leong-Salobir, “Food Culture in Colonial Asia: A Taste of Empire” (Routledge, 2011)

68 hours 25 mins; September 13, 2011

Eric Rath, “Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Japan” (University of California Press, 2010)

80 hours 23 mins; August 04, 2011

Danyelle Freeman, “Try This: Traveling the Globe without Leaving the Table” (Ecco, 2011)

59 mins; June 14, 2011

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