Texts for Food, History & Culture


Please order your textbooks online.

(I suggest amazon.com or barnesandnoble.com).
I will not be asking the EKU bookstores to order these texts.

You should BOTH purchase the following texts:

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (2001)

Fat Land, How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World
by Greg Critser (2003)

You should purchase AT LEAST ONE of the following texts:

I suggest that you choose the book from the area of history that you teach but know the LEAST about.

All these books are in the Greenwood Press "Daily Life Through History" Series. Even though they are a little pricey ($50), these books are straightforward, easy-to-read, and contain information that can readily be adapted to the classroom.

Daily Life in Ancient Egypt
Bob Brier and Hoyt Hobbs

Daily Life in Traditoinal China, The Tang Dynasty
Charles Benn (2002)

Daily Life in Colonial New England (1600-1700s)
Claudia Durst Johnson (2/28/2002)

Daily Life in Medieval Europe (1100-1300s)
Jeffrey L. Singman (8/30/1999)

Daily Life in Chaucer's England (1300-1400s)
Jeffrey L. Singman , Will McLean (10/30/1995)

Daily Life in Renaissance Italy (1300-1400s)
Elizabeth S. Cohen , Thomas V. Cohen (9/30/2001)

Daily Life in Elizabethan England (1600s)
Jeffrey L. Singman (8/30/1995)

Daily Life in 18th-Century England (1700s)
Kirstin Olsen (6/30/1999)

Daily Life in Victorian England (1800s)
Sally Mitchell (9/30/1996)

 

These books are NOT required, but if you are REALLY excited about this topic and want to order more books about food, I suggest the following.

American History Cookbook by Mark H. Zanger

The First American Cookbook by Amelia Simmons (1796) 

The Kentucky Housewife by Lettice Bryan (1839)

The Best of Shaker Cooking by Amy Bess Miller and Persis Fuller

A Taste of Ancient Rome by Ilaria Gozzini Giacosa, Anna Herklotz (Translator)

The Classical Cookbook by Andrew Dalby, Sally Grainger

Roman Cookery: Ancient Recipes for Modern Kitchens by Mark Grant

Siren Feasts: A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece by Andrew Dalby

The Cambridge World History of Food - This 2 volume set costs $100 but it has everything you ever wanted to know about food.

 

Syllabus Objectives Essential Questions  
Required
Texts
Reading Guides About WebQuests WebQuest,
Food and Nutrition Profile

 

Analyzing Recipes

Diet of the Medieval Peasant

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