Titles below were selected and annotated by Audrey Russek, Food and Wine Archivist, UC Davis Library Archives and Special Collections department.
Chrzan, Janet, and John A. Brett. Food Culture: Anthropology, Linguistics and Food Studies. Edited by Janet Chrzan and John A. Brett. New York: Berghahn Books, 2017.
Bower, Anne. Reel Food Essays on Food and Film. New York: Routledge, 2004. [solid examples of how to analyze food in film]
Leer, Jonatan, and Stinne Gunder Strøm Krogager. Research Methods in Digital Food Studies. Edited by Jonatan Leer and Stinne Gunder Strøm Krogager. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2021.
Kiple, Kenneth F., and Kriemhild Coneè€. Ornelas. The Cambridge World History of Food. Edited by Kenneth F. Kiple and Kriemhild Coneè€. Ornelas. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Volume 1 & Volume 2
Watson, James L, and Melissa L. Caldwell. The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating: a Reader. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2005. [includes essay on grocery stores that pairs well with grocery store site observations: Purnima Mankekar, “’India Shopping’: Indian Grocery Stores and Transnational Configurations of Belonging”] Shields Library GT 2850 .C853 2005 {currently checked out}
Counihan, Carole, and Valeria Siniscalchi. Food Activism, Agency, Democracy and Economy. Edited by Carole Counihan and Valeria Siniscalchi. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. Shields Library HD 9000.5 .F5477 2014
Levent, Nina Sobol, and Irina D. Mihalache. Food and Museums. Edited by Nina Sobol Levent and Irina D. Mihalache. London: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc, 2017. [solid examples of how to analyze food in museums] Shields Library GT 2855 .F65 2017
Smith, Andrew F. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Shields Library, 2nd floor – Reference Collection TX 349 .O94 2004 Vols 1-2. [LIBRARY USE ONLY – chapters can be scanned or copied upon Digitization REQUEST]