Food
Cooking, recipes, ingredients, restaurants and the culture and politics of what we eat. Read by cooks and by readers who take food seriously as a subject.
88 books
Books 88
Eric Schlosser · 2001 · The industry critique that made McDonald's its central case.
Michael Pollan · 2006 · The corn-calorie economy traced through four meals.
Dan Morgan · 1979 · Cargill, Continental and the private grain oligopoly.
George M. Taber · 2005 · The 1976 tasting that repriced New World wine.
Danny Meyer · 2006 · Restaurateur on hospitality as an operating system for service businesses
Benjamin Wallace · 2008 · The Jefferson bottles and the fraud problem in fine wine.
Michael Moss · 2013 · Industry-wide, with Nestlé among the main companies examined.
Marco Palacios · 1980 · Economic history of the crop, the growers' federation and the export institutions built around it.
Andrew Chetley · 1986 · The infant formula marketing controversy and the Nestlé boycott.
Gwendolyn Mikell · 1989 · How marketing-board pricing destroyed the country's main export industry.
William Roseberry, Lowell Gudmundson, Mario Samper Kutschbach · 1995 · Comparative coffee political economy; sets Colombia's growers' federation in context.
James L. Watson · 1997 · Edited fieldwork on how the format was localised across Asia.
Elin McCoy · 2005 · Robert Parker and how one palate set global wine prices.
Carol Off · 2006 · Cocoa supply chain and child labour behind confectionery majors.
Marion Nestle · 2015 · The regulatory and tax threat to carbonated volumes; Open Library unreachable.
Gary Taubes · 2016 · Background on how the obesity market got as large as it is.
Tom Philpott · 2020 · Soil, water and the financial fragility of US farmland.
T3 Barons
Austin Frerick · 2024 · Concentration of ownership across American agriculture.
Lydia Maria Child · 1829 · 1829 household economy manual; thrift treated as a financial system
Michel Montignac · 1989
T4 Bottlemania
Elizabeth Royte · 2008 · Local water-extraction fights, several of them with Nestle Waters.
Robert J. Foster · 2008 · Academic study of the bottling and distribution system abroad.
Orla Ryan · 2011 · West African cocoa economics for a buyer of the crop.
T4 Wine Wars
Mike Veseth · 2011 · Wine economist on globalization, terroir and commodity pressure.
Maximillian Potter · 2014 · Extortion at Domaine de la Romanee-Conti.
Dr. Michael Greger · 2015
Brian Reisinger · 2024 · Why family farms lose ground to consolidated ownership.
Alexander Smalls, JJ Johnson, Veronica Chambers
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Richard Betts
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