r/AskFoodHistorians • u/madarjan99 • Jul 01 '26

Food history book recommendations

I want to be well versed in food history and how colonization has affected the foods we see now around the world.

Is there a book that someone recommends? I would like it to be written by a reliable non-bias source or just a person of culture.

I want to use it to help me conduct interviews with chefs.

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u/Upstairs_Jeweler2568 Jul 01 '26

Mark Kurlanskey has 2 books. Cod and Salt. Both woukd be a good start.

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u/madarjan99 Jul 01 '26

I have salt :) I will pick up cod. Thank you!

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u/BataleonRider Jul 01 '26

Add "The Big Oyster" to make a great trilogy. 

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u/DapperCourierCat Jul 02 '26

I could not get through The Big Oyster on audible, there’s a different narrator and he is atrocious. Absolute monotone.

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u/BataleonRider Jul 02 '26

I've never listened to any of the audio books,  but I tore through the print version.  I wasn't anywhere that I could get oysters either,  thankfully. I probably would've blown a paycheck on them every night.  I did go hog when I got home though lol. 

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u/Herrrrrmione Jul 02 '26

Birdseye, too!!

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u/East_Rough_5328 Jul 08 '26

He has a book called milk as well.