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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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4.18 avg rating — 201,724 ratings
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An Edible History of Humanity
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3.76 avg rating — 5,359 ratings
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Salt: A World History
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3.75 avg rating — 69,661 ratings
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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3.92 avg rating — 22,259 ratings
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Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
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4.07 avg rating — 24,564 ratings
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The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu
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3.74 avg rating — 2,160 ratings
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses
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3.80 avg rating — 27,926 ratings
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The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
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3.95 avg rating — 4,608 ratings
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A History of Food in 100 Recipes
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3.73 avg rating — 690 ratings
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Eating the Empire: Food and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain
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4.25 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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3.75 avg rating — 205,257 ratings
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Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig
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4.16 avg rating — 806 ratings
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Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
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3.85 avg rating — 9,388 ratings
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Breakfast: A History
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3.60 avg rating — 168 ratings
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A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression
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3.74 avg rating — 2,025 ratings
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The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet
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4.28 avg rating — 6,069 ratings
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Cheese and Culture: A History of Cheese and its Place in Western Civilization
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3.66 avg rating — 235 ratings
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Tastes Like Chicken: A History of America's Favorite Bird
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3.81 avg rating — 131 ratings
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The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
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3.62 avg rating — 535 ratings
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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 30,713 ratings
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The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
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3.84 avg rating — 7,681 ratings
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Spice: The History of a Temptation
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3.63 avg rating — 2,448 ratings
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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
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3.81 avg rating — 4,816 ratings
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Coffee and Coffeehouses: The Origins of a Social Beverage in the Medieval Near East
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3.72 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
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4.04 avg rating — 108,927 ratings
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The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South
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3.81 avg rating — 1,822 ratings
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Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
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3.69 avg rating — 2,734 ratings
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Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol
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3.84 avg rating — 797 ratings
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The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
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4.10 avg rating — 2,704 ratings
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Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages
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3.62 avg rating — 541 ratings
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The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us
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3.74 avg rating — 332 ratings
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Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food
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3.75 avg rating — 231 ratings
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In Meat We Trust: An Unexpected History of Carnivore America
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3.66 avg rating — 212 ratings
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Butter: A Rich History
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3.86 avg rating — 955 ratings
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Beans: A History
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3.63 avg rating — 197 ratings
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Pizza: A Slice of American History
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3.55 avg rating — 89 ratings
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A Vineyard Odyssey: The Organic Fight to Save Wine from the Ravages of Nature
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4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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How Nature Cures Comprising a New System of Hygiene; Also The Natural Food of Man
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3.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Around the World in Eighty Wines: Exploring Wine One Country at a Time
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3.54 avg rating — 95 ratings
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A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World
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3.82 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Seven Deadly Sins and One Very Naughty Fruit
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3.54 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Food Fights & Culture Wars: A Secret History of Taste
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3.33 avg rating — 240 ratings
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Food in Medieval Times
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3.68 avg rating — 62 ratings
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The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food--Before the National Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When the Nation's Food Was Seasonal
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3.46 avg rating — 2,561 ratings
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Good Spirits: A New Look at Ol' Demon Alcohol
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4.22 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Absinthe: History in a Bottle
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4.05 avg rating — 333 ratings
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Wild Apples
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3.71 avg rating — 373 ratings
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The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are
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3.57 avg rating — 2,473 ratings
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Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer
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3.80 avg rating — 609 ratings
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Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil
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3.77 avg rating — 3,832 ratings
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Suicide by Sugar: A Startling Look at Our #1 National Addiction
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3.42 avg rating — 372 ratings
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Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens
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3.91 avg rating — 538 ratings
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Sugar-Plums and Sherbet
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4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Sugar: The world corrupted, from slavery to obesity
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3.43 avg rating — 469 ratings
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Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind
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3.33 avg rating — 239 ratings
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Light Bulb Baking: A History of the Easy-Bake Oven
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4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Sugar Blues
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4.01 avg rating — 1,907 ratings
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The Mead-Hall: The Feasting Tradition in Anglo-Saxon England
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4.34 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Proof: The Science of Booze
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3.92 avg rating — 4,003 ratings
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Cavemen, Monks, and Slow Food: A History of Eating Well
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3.35 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Year of No Sugar
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3.38 avg rating — 5,497 ratings
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A Second Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Food & Drink: Production & Distribution
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4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of a Common Fate
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4.08 avg rating — 489 ratings
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Meathooked: The History and Science of Our 2.5-Million-Year Obsession with Meat
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4.04 avg rating — 524 ratings
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The Migraine Miracle: A Sugar-Free, Gluten-Free, Ancestral Diet to Reduce Inflammation and Relieve Your Headaches for Good
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3.98 avg rating — 548 ratings
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A Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Food: Processing and Consumption
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4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
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4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Barbecue: A Global History
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3.14 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers
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3.90 avg rating — 22,429 ratings
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Apricot village: Further reminiscences of the Aynho gardener
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Art of Cookery in the Middle Ages
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 30 ratings
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I Am Not a Tractor!: How Florida Farmworkers Took On the Fast Food Giants and Won
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4.31 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Pepper: A History of the World's Most Influential Spice
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3.44 avg rating — 167 ratings
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Pure and Modern Milk: An Environmental History since 1900
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3.93 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Medieval Kitchen: Recipes from France and Italy
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4.02 avg rating — 237 ratings
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Fighting the Banana Wars and Other Fairtrade Battles
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3.51 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Ice Cream: The Delicious History
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2.73 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon, from River to Table
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4.19 avg rating — 214 ratings
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Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
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3.55 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Jellies & Their Moulds
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4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Would You Marry A Farmer?
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4.22 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
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3.95 avg rating — 4,296 ratings
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Food & Feast in Tudor England
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 75 ratings
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The Days of the Servant Boy
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4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Meal
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3.88 avg rating — 809 ratings
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Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
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4.02 avg rating — 4,366 ratings
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The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
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3.96 avg rating — 137 ratings
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First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
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3.88 avg rating — 3,185 ratings
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The Domestic Revolution: How the Introduction of Coal into Victorian Homes Changed Everything
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4.18 avg rating — 595 ratings
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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
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3.87 avg rating — 3,718 ratings
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Hybrid: The History and Science of Plant Breeding
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3.76 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Southern Food
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4.24 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?: The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization
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3.73 avg rating — 514 ratings
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Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power
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4.37 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Seeking the Historical Cook: Exploring Eighteenth-Century Southern Foodways
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors
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3.91 avg rating — 1,163 ratings
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Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine
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4.29 avg rating — 3,197 ratings
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The Untold History of Ramen: How Political Crisis in Japan Spawned a Global Food Craze (Volume 49) (California Studies in Food and Culture)
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3.77 avg rating — 133 ratings
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The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat
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3.65 avg rating — 3,649 ratings
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Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States
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3.45 avg rating — 647 ratings
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