Learning about Food and Culture

Food & Culture Articles, Books & Chapters

2002. What if It’s All Been a Big Fat Lie? New York Times Magazine, July 7, 2002. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/what-if-it-s-all-been-a-big-fat-lie.html?pagewanted=all

2003. The Skinny on Fat. Gastronomica 3 (1), 28-36.

Allen, P. (2007). The Disappearance of Hunger in America. Gastronomica: the Journal of Food and Culture. Vol. 7

Borlaug, N. (2004). The Frankenfood Myth. Westport, CT: Praeger.(Available as a downloaded pdf for a fee).

Glassner, B. (2007). The Gospel of Food. New York: Perennial.

Guptill, A. E., Copelton, D. A., & Lucal, B. (2017). Food and society: Principles and paradoxes. John Wiley & Sons.

Levenstein, .H (2003). Revolution at the table: the transformation of the American diet (Vol. 7). Univ of California Press.

Manning, R . (2004). The oil we eat: following the food chain back to Iraq.

Miller, H.I. & G. Conko. (2004). A Brave New World of Biotechnology? More Like a Brave Old World! Pp. 1-18 in The Frankenfood Myth. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Nestle, M. (2010). What to eat. Macmillan.

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Nestle, M. (2003). Safe Food. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Nestle, M. (2002). Food Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Patel, R. (2008). Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System. Brooklyn, NY: Melville House Publishing.

Pollan, M. (2006). The Omnivore’s Dilemma. New York: Penguin (free download of entire book).pdfPollan, M. (2008). In Defense of Food. New York: Penguin Press.

Roberts, P. (2008). The End of Food. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Singer, P. and J. Mason. (2006). What We Eat. Rodale. “The Ethics of Eating Meat,” 241-260 .

Striffler, S. (2006). Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America’s Favorite Food. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.