18 books like Fast Food Nation

What to read after Fast Food Nation — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Freakonomics Steven D. Levitt · 2005 · ★ 4.0 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate *A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything* Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But… Shares Popular culture, Sociology, Social Science, Business

How to Eat Nigella Lawson · 1998 · 537p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Shares Food, Cooking with this book.

Favorite Dishes Carrie V. Shuman · 2000 · 154p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares American Cooking, Cooking with this book.

Food for the family Jennie S. Wilmot · 1938 · 741p · ≈ 24h · Challenging Shares American Cooking, Food, Cooking with this book.

The art of living in Australia Philip E. Muskett · 1893 · 306p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Shares Health, Cooking with this book.

Good Things to Eat as Suggested by Rufus Rufus Estes · 1911 · 151p · ≈ 5h · Moderate An illustrated collection of nearly 600 recipes offering instructions for preparing such standard fare as fried chicken, beef roast, and glazed carrots and more specifically, among them Creole-style chicken gumbo, chestnut stuffing with truffles, cherry dumplings, and Southern-style waffles. Shares American Cooking, Cooking, History

Cooked Michael Pollan · 2013 · ★ 4.1 · 475p · ≈ 15h · Moderate "Fire, water, air, earth--our most trusted food expert recounts the story of his culinary education In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four classical elements--fire, water, air, and earth--to transform the stuff of nature into delicious things to eat and drink. Apprenticing himself to a succession… Shares Food, Social Science, Social aspects, Cooking

A treatise of the materia medica William Cullen · 1789 · 610p · ≈ 20h · Demanding Shares Food, Cooking with this book.

A Little Cook-Book for a Little Girl Caroline French Benton · 1905 · 98p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Shares American Cooking, Cooking with this book.

Food fundamentals Margaret McWilliams · 1966 · 576p · ≈ 19h · Moderate Shares Food, Cooking with this book.

Twenty lessons in domestic science Marian Cole Fisher · 1916 · 108p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Shares American Cooking, Food, Cooking with this book.

Tasting the past Jacqui Wood · 2009 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Food, Cooking, History with this book.

The good housekeeper Sarah Josepha Hale · 1839 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Shares Health, American Cooking, Cooking with this book.

Mrs. Putnam's receipt book and young housekeeper's assistant Putnam, E. Mrs · 1852 · 228p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Shares American Cooking, Cooking with this book.

The curse Janice Delaney · 1976 · ★ 3.5 · 276p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares Popular culture, Sociology, Social Science, History with this book.

Trailer Food Diaries Cookbook : Tiffany Harelik · 2012 · 141p · ≈ 4h · Light "A cookbook featuring recipes from Houston, Texas, food trucks"-- "In Houston, everyone from enterprising chefs at established restaurants to home cooks who love to eat has taken their recipes to the streets. From the Heights to Montrose and bars in between, food truck concepts are peppered around the Bayou City, feeding hungry Houstonians everything from bacon jam to cookie-flavored cashew… Shares American Cooking, Cooking

Food and feeding Sir Henry Thompson · 1879 · ★ 4.0 · 657p · ≈ 21h · Demanding Shares American Cooking, Food, Cooking with this book.

Good cheer Frederick William Hackwood · 1911 · 424p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Shares Food, Cooking, History with this book.

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