COOKING THE BOOKS
Who knew there were so many Harvard folks in the food writing world? Check out these books from Harvard and non-Harvard writers alike.
Many of these titles are available at Harvard's Schlesinger Library which houses a culinary collection of more than 15,000 items from personal papers to promotional cookbooks. Best of all, the library is open to any scholar, regardless of affiliation, so go explore today!
The Man Who Ate Everything and It Must've Been Something I Ate —Jeffrey Steingarten '64
Untangling My Chopsticks—Victoria A. Riccardi '81
Real Life Entertaining: Easy Recipes and Unconventional Wisdom—Jennifer Rubell '93
The Lee Bros. Cookbook: Stories and Recipes for Southerners and Would-be Southerners—Matt '91 and Ted Lee
Blithe Tomato—Mike Madison '68, Ph.D. '75
Cool: The Story of Ice Cream—Marilyn Powell Ph.D. '66
Becoming a Chef, Culinary Artistry; The New American Chef; What to Drink with What You Eat—Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page, MBA '89
From Hardtack to Homefries—Barbara Haber, former Curator of Books, Schlesinger Library
Tsukiji : The Fish Market at the Center of the World—Theodore Bestor, Professor of Anthropology
Golden Arches East and Cultural Politics of Food—James L. Watson, Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society and Professor of Anthropology
Eat, Drink and Be Healthy—Dr. Walter Willett, Frederick J. Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, HSPH
The Official Foodie Handbook; Out to Lunch; The Penguin Book of Food and Drink, ed—Paul Levy, PhD '79
The Vegetable Dishes I Can't Live Without; The Moosewood Cookbook; The Enchanted Broccoli Forest; Eat, Drink and Weigh Less (with Dr. Walter Willett, HSPH)—Mollie Katzen
The Omnivore's Dilemma—Michael Pollan
How to Cook a Wolf—M.F.K. Fisher
French Women Don't Get Fat —Mireille Guiliano
On Food and Cooking—Harold McGee
Food Politics; Safe Food and What to Eat—Marion Nestle
Fields of Plenty: A Farmer's Journey in Search of Real Food and the People Who Grow It—Michael Ableman
Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods—Gary Paul Nabhan
