COOKING / History

Why Food Matters

Why X Matters Series

by Paul Freedman

Distilled

A Natural History of Spirits

by Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall

Illustrated by Patricia J. Wynne

The Culture of Food in England, 1200-1500

by C. M. Woolgar

Potato

A History of the Propitious Esculent

by John Reader

The Social Life of Coffee

The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse

by Brian Cowan

The Bagel

The Surprising History of a Modest Bread

by Maria Balinska

The Hamburger

A History

Icons of America

by Josh Ozersky

Out of the East

Spices and the Medieval Imagination

by Paul Freedman