Research Guides: Eating Cultures: SPAN 0837/0937: Find Books & Background Information

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Scholarly Food Encyclopedias

Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia by Ken Albala (Editor)
Call Number: E-Book
Publication Date: 2011-05-01
Filled with succinct, yet highly informative entries, the four-volume Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia covers all of the planet's nation-states, as well as various tribes and marginalized peoples.

The Cambridge World History of Food. Vol. 1
Edited by Kenneth F. Kiple, Kriemhild Coneè Ornelas. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2008.
The Cambridge World History of Food. Vol. 2

The Oxford Handbook of Food History by Jeffrey M. Pilcher (Editor)
ISBN: 9780199729937
Publication Date: 2012-10-16
They Eat That? by Jonathan Deutsch; Natalya Murakhver
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
The title "They Eat That?: A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weird and Exotic Food from around the World" says it all. This fun encyclopedia, organized A Z, describes and offers cultural context for foodstuffs people eat today that might be described as "weird" at least to the American palate.