Food Preparation:
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!


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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 CreamMarilyn 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, edPaul 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





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