Food Bibliography

[Food Books in the Library of Dr. Michael Delahoyde
Excerpted for Class Materials.]


Adams, Carol. The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory. NY: The Continuum Publishing Company, 1990.

Allen, Brigid, ed. Food: An Oxford Anthology. NY: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Apicius. Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome. Trans. Joseph Dommers Vehling. NY: Dover, 1977.

Bayard, Tania, trans. A Medieval Home Companion: Housekeeping in the Fourteenth Century. NY: HarperCollins, 1991.

Black, Maggie. The Medieval Cookbook. London: British Museum Press, 1992.

Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme. The Physiology of Taste. Trans. M.F.K. Fisher. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1986.

Cosman, Madeleine Pelner. Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Cookery and Ceremony. NY: George Braziller, Inc., 1976.

Curtin, Deane W., and Lisa M. Heldke, eds. Cooking, Eating, Thinking: Transformative Philosophies of Food. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.

Dumas, Alexandre. Dumas on Food. Trans. Alan and Jane Davidson. London: Folio Society, 1978.

Fisher, M.F.K. The Art of Eating. NY: Macmillan, 1990.

Gordon, Karen Elizabeth. The Ravenous Muse: A Table of Dark and Comic Contents, a Bacchanal of Books. NY; Pantheon Books, 1996.

Gross, S., ed. Food Food Food: A Feast of Great Cartoons. NY: Harper and Row, 1987.

Hiett, Constance B., and Sharon Butler. Cury on Inglysch. London: Early English Text Society, 1985.

Jacobs, Jay. The Eaten Word: The Language of Food, the Food in Our Language. NY: Birch Lane Press, 1995.

Lovegren, Sylvia. Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads. NY: Macmillan, 1995.

Moore, Judith. Never Eat Your Heart Out. NY: North Point Press, 1997.

Nash, Ogden. Food. NY: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1989.

Redon, Odile, Françoise Sabban, Silvano Serventi. The Medieval Kitchen: Recipes from France and Italy. Trans. Edward Schneider. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Riley, Gillian. Painters and Food: Renaissance Recipes. San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1993.

Sass, Lorna J. To the King's Taste: Richard II's Book of Feasts and Recipes Adapted for Modern Cooking. NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.

---. To the Queen's Taste: Elizabethan Feasts and Recipes Adapted for Modern Cooking. NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1976.

Scapp, Ron, and Brian Seitz, eds. Eating Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.

Schivelbusche, Wolfgang. Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants. Trans. David Jacobson. NY: Pantheon Books, 1992.

Schofield, Mary Anne, ed. Cooking by the Book: Food in Literature and Culture. Bowling Green, Ohio: The Popular Press, 1989.

Scully, D. Eleanor, and Terence Scully. Early French Cookery: Sources, History, Original Recipes and Modern Adaptations. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995.

Simmons, Amelia. American Cookery: or, The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry and Vegetables, etc. 1796. Bedford, Massachusetts: Applewood Books, 1996.

Sokolov, Raymond. Why We Eat What We Eat: How the Encounter Between the New World and the Old World Changed the Way Everyone on the Planet Eats. NY; Summit Books, 1991.

Spencer, Colin. The Heretic's Feast: A History of Vegetarianism. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1995.

Visser, Margaret. The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners. NY: Grove, 1991.

Wheaton, Barbara Ketcham. Savoring the Past: The French Kitchen and Table from 1300 to 1789. NY: Touchstone, 1996.


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