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Recipes and Cookbooks: Food, Stories, Histories

This guide provides a sample of food and recipe cookbooks available through the Jim Dan Hill Library. It also notes other resources with related focus.

Histories, Analyses, and Discussions

Look Who's Cooking : the rhetoric of American home cooking traditions in the twenty-first century (physical book).

Women Redefining the Experience of Food Insecurity: Life Off the Edge of the Table (physical book).

Food at Sea: Shipboard Cuisine from Ancient to Modern Times (physical book).

Food on the Rails: the golden era of railroad dining (physical book)

Chop Suey and Sushi from Sea to Shining Sea (physical book).

Invitation to a Banquet: a History of Chinese Food (ebook).

The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell : contemporary Appalachian tables (ebook).

The Whale and the Cupcake : Stories of Subsistence, Longing, and Community in Alaska (ebook).

Locavore Adventures : one chef's slow food journey (ebook).

The food section : newspaper women and the culinary community (ebook).

Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens : domestic workers in the South, 1865-1960 (ebook) .

At the Table of Power : Food and Cuisine in the African American Struggle for Freedom, Justice, and Equality (ebook).

The President's Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas (ebook) .

Taste of the Nation: The New Deal Search for America's Food (ebook).

The Politics of the Pantry : stories, food, and social change (ebook).

Talking about Food: The Social and the Global in Eating Communities (ebook) .

Why food matters (ebook).

Digital Food Cultures (ebook).

The Perfect Meal : the multisensory science of food and dining (ebook) .

Biography

Monaghan by Joseph Pearce
Call Number: TX910.5 .P43 2016

ISBN: 9781505108903

Publication Date: 2016-12-26
Ray and Joan by Lisa Napoli
Call Number: HV541 .N33 2016

ISBN: 9781101984956

Publication Date: 2016-11-15
Colonel Sanders and the American Dream by Josh Ozersky
Call Number: via eBook Central

ISBN: 0292737203

Publication Date: 2012-04-04
Profiles from the Kitchen: What Great Cooks Have Taught Us about Ourselves and Our Food by Charles Baker-Clark
Call Number: via Proquest

ISBN: 1283232588

Publication Date: 2014-05-10

Biography

Memoir

Food-Related Stories by Gaby Melian; Ashley Lukashevsky (Illustrator)
Call Number: TX649.M45 A3 2021

ISBN: 9780593223499

Publication Date: 2022-01-18
Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi; Joshua David Stein
Call Number: TX715.2.A47 O59 2019

ISBN: 9781524732622

Publication Date: 2019-04-09
Everything Is under Control by Phyllis Grant
Call Number: TX910.5.G725 A3 2020

ISBN: 9780374150143

Publication Date: 2020-04-21
Burn the Place by Iliana Regan
Call Number: TX649.R44 A3 2019

ISBN: 9781572842670

Publication Date: 2019-07-16
California soul : An American epic of cooking and survival by Keith Corbin
Call Number: via Overdrive

ISBN: 9780593243831

Publication Date: 2022
A Year Right Here by Jess Thomson; Hannah Viano (Illustrator)
Call Number: via Project MUSE

ISBN: 0295741554

Publication Date: 2017-04-03

Audiobooks - Memoir

cover art. Chop fry watch learn : Fu Pei-Mei and the making of modern Chinese food / Michelle T. King. Audiobook.

cover art. 32 yolks : from my mother's table to working the line by Eric Ripert. Audiobook.

cover art. Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain (Read by). Audiobook.

cover art. Hidden Kitchens. Audiobook.