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HIST 378: Food & Feasting

Use this guide to access background information, books, journal articles, web sites, and primary sources related to the history and culture surrounding food around the globe.

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A few search terms to start with.

This is not an exhaustive list.

  • Beverages

  • Cookery

  • Cooking

  • Cooking in literature

  • Diet

  • Dinners and dining

  • Eating (Philosophy)

  • Fasts and feasts

  • Food

  • Food habits

  • Food in literature

  • Food in the Bible

  • Food preferences

  • Food supply

  • Food -- History

  • Food -- Religious aspects

  • Food -- Social aspects

  • Gastronomy

  • Nutrition

  • Starvation

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