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The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
by Dan Koeppel
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Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?
by Andrew Lawler
Published Apr 2016
Read ReviewsFrom ancient empires to modern economics, veteran journalist Andrew Lawler delivers a sweeping history of the animal that has been most crucial to the spread of civilization across the globe - the chicken.
by Nicholas A. Basbanes
Published Jul 2014
Read ReviewsA consideration of all things paper: Entertaining, illuminating, irresistible, a book that masterfully guides us through paper's inseparability from human culture.
by Bee Wilson
Published Oct 2013
Read ReviewsTechnology in the kitchen does not just mean the Pacojets and sous-vide of the modernist kitchen. It can also mean the humbler tools of everyday cooking and eating: a wooden spoon and a skillet, chopsticks and forks.
by Mark Kurlansky
Published Feb 2013
Read ReviewsThe first biography of Clarence Birdseye, the eccentric genius inventor whose fast-freezing process revolutionized the food industry and American agriculture.
by John Paul Rathbone
Published Jul 2011
Read ReviewsThe son of a Cuban exile recounts the remarkable and contradictory life of famed sugar baron Julio Lobo, the richest man in prerevolutionary Cuba and the last of the island's haute bourgeoisie.
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
by Tom Standage
Published May 2006
Read ReviewsThroughout human history. certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. Six of them have had a surprisingly pervasive influence on the course of history, becoming the defining drink during a pivotal historical period from the Stone Age to the 21st century.
by Jack Turner
Published Aug 2005
Read ReviewsA brilliant, original history of the spice trade, and the appetites that fueled it.
by Barbara Freese
Published Feb 2004
Read Reviews'Offers an exquisite chronicle of the rise and fall of this bituminous black mineral.... Part history and part environmental argument, Freese's elegant book teaches an important lesson about the interdependence of humans and their natural environment both for good and ill throughout history.'
by Mark Kurlansky
Published Feb 2003
Read ReviewsDeftly leading readers around the world and across cultures and centuries, Kurlansky takes an inexpensive, mundane item and shows how it has influenced and affected wars, cultures, governments, religions, societies, economies & food. An entertaining, informative read.
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