Interesting Reads

My Most Favorite Books Of All Time

Books

Authors

Indian Food – A Historical Companion K.T.Achaya
Curry – A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors Lizze Collingham
Men are from Mars Women are from Venus John Gray
The Mughal Harem K.S.Lal
The Empire of the Great Mughal Annemarie Schimmel, Burzine K. Waghmar
Royal Mughal Ladies Soma Mukherjee
Fast Food Nation: the dark side of the American meal Eric Schlosser
History and Social Influence of the Potato R.N. Salaman
The Tomato in America: early history, culture and cookery Andrew F. Smith
Secrets of Saffron:The Vagabond Life of the World’s Most Seductive Spice Pat Willard
Salt: A world history Mark Kurlansky
History of rice in India:mythology, culture, and agriculture Tuk Tuk Kumar
The True History of Chocolate Sophie D.Coe, Michael D.Coe
Swindled – food fraud Bee Wilson
Vanilla: the cultural history of the world’s most popular flavor and fragrance Patricia Rain
Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche Bruce Feirstein
Men, Meat and Marriage: models of masculinity Jeffery Sobel
Anthropology of Food: the social dynamic of food security Johan Pottier
Ancestral Appetite: Food in Prehistory Kristen J. Gremillion
Uncommon Grounds: the history of coffee and how it transformed our world Mark Pendergrast
Ecological Imperialism Alfred W. Crosby
Germs, Seeds and Animals Alfred W. Crosby
Food and Culture: a reader Carole Counihan
The Hive Bee Wilson
The Anthropology of Food and Body: gender, meaning, and power Carole Counihan
Food and Gender Stevie L.Kaplan
Food for Thought: essays on eating and culture Lawrence C. Rubin
The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective Arjun Appadurai
The Eternal Food: Gastronomic ideas and experiences of Hindus and Buddhists Ravindra S. Khare
Purity and Danger: an analysis of concept of pollution and taboo Mary Douglas
Cooking, Cuisine and Class: a study in comparative sociology Jack Goody
Food and Love: a cultural history of East and West Jack Goody
Food and Globalization: consumption, markets and politic in the modern world Alexander Nutzenadel
The Hindu Hearth and Home Ravindra S. Khare
Feasts, Fasts, Famine: food for thought Pat Caplan, Patricia Kaplan
Everyone Eats: understanding food and culture Eugene Newton Anderson
Steve Jobs Watter Isaacson
Guns, Germs, Steel Jared Diamond
The Third Chimpanzee Jared Diamond
Collapse: How societies choose to fail or succeed Jared Diamond
Omnivore’s Dilemma Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food Michael Pollan
The Botany of Desire Michael Pollan
Our Kind – Who we are, Where we came from and Where we are going Marvin Harris
Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches: The Riddles of Culture Marvin Harris
Good to Eat – Riddles of Food and Culture Marvin Harris
Cannibals and Kings Marvin Harris
Cultural Anthropology Marvin Harris
Anatomy of Love Helen Fisher
Why We Love – The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love Helen Fisher
Dinner with a Cannibal Carole A Travis Henikoff
A Natural History of the Senses Diane Ackerman
How Cooking Made us Human – Catching Fire Richard Wrangham
Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom Sidney Mintz
Sweetness and Power: the place of sugar in modern history Sidney Mintz
On Food and Cooking – The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee
CookWise Shirley O. Corriher
Eating for Beauty David Wolfe
Sexy Women Eat Divya Gugnani
The Undercover Economist Tim Harford
The Raw and the Cooked -Mythologiques Claude Levi Strauss

 

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