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Food and Drink in America

The Oxford Encyclopedia of
Food and Drink in America

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• 330 total contributors
• 1413 articles
(including sidebars and appendices)
• 410 images
• 1.28 million words

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Esquire Magazine names Food and Drink one of
The Best Food and Beer Books to Give This Season
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Drinking History

Drinking History:
Fifteen Turning Points in the Making of American Beverages
(Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)

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FEATURED TITLES
by Andrew F. Smith

American Tuna

American Tuna
The Rise and Fall of an Improbable Food

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Starving the South

Starving the South
How the North
Won the Civil War

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Fast Food and Junk Food

Fast Food and Junk Food
An Encyclopedia of What We Love to Eat

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Food books by Andrew F. Smith

Eating History

Eating History: Thirty Turning Points
in the Making of American Cuisine

Andrew F. Smith
New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.

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Eating History

Potato A Global History
Andrew F. Smith
London: Reaktion Books, 2011

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Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink

The Oxford Companion to
American Food and Drink

Andrew F. Smith, editor in chief.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Hamburger: A Global History
Andrew F. Smith
London: Reaktion Books, 2008

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Encyclopedia of Junk Food and Fast Food

The Encyclopedia of Junk Food and Fast Food
Andrew F. Smith
Westport, Connecticut:
Greenwood Press, 2006.
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Real American Food

Real American Food:
Restaurants, Markets, and Shops
Plus Favorite Hometown Recipes

Burt Wolf and Andrew F. Smith
New York: Rizzoli, 2006

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The Turkey

The Turkey: An American Story
Andrew F. Smith
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006

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Lone Star Cook Book

Dallas Free Kindergarten and Training School
Lone Star Cook Book

Introduction by Andrew F. Smith
Dallas: The Ladies’ of the Dallas
Free Kindergarten and Training School, 1901. Reprint.
Bedford, Mass.: Applewood Books, 2005

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El Paso Cookbook

Ladies’ Auxiliary, Y.M.C.A.
El Paso Cookbook

Introduction by Andrew F. Smith
El Paso, Texas: Herald News Co., 1898. Reprint.
Bedford, MA: Applewood Books, 2005

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Pure Ketchup: The History of America’s National Condiment

Pure Ketchup:
The History of America’s National Condiment

Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996.
Released as ebook by NetLibrary, Inc. 2001.
Paperback released by
Smithsonian Institution Press, April 2001.

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Centennial Buckeye Cook Book

Centennial Buckeye Cook Book
Wilcox, Estelle Woods, comp.
Introduction and Appendices by Andrew F. Smith
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2000.

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Popped Culture: A Social History of Popcorn in America

Popped Culture:
A Social History of Popcorn in America

by Andrew F. Smith
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999.
The paperback edition was released by
the Smithsonian Institution Press in April 2001.

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The Tomato in America

The Tomato in America
Early History, Culture and Cookery

by Andrew F. Smith
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1994.
Mandarin version published July 2000 by
Leviathan Publishing Co. Taibei, Republic of China.
University of Illinois Press released
paperback edition October 2001.

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National Cookery Book

National Cookery Book
Women’s Centennial Executive Committee
Gillespie, Elizabeth Duane (Editor),
Andrew F. Smith (Introduction)
Philadelphia: 1876 Reprint.
Cambridge: Applewood Books, 2004.

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Peanuts: The Illustrious History of the Goober Pea

Peanuts:
The Illustrious History of the Goober Pea

by Andrew F. Smith;
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

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Mexican Cooking:
The Flavor of the 20th Century
That Real Mexican Tang

Gebhardt Chili Powder Company
San Antonio, Texas: Gebhardt Chili Powder Company, [pre-1910]. Reprint. Introduction by Andrew F. Smith. Bedford, Mass.: Applewood Books, 2005.

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Livingston and the Tomato

Livingston and the Tomato
Alexander Livingston with a Preface and Appendix
by Andrew F. Smith. Reprint.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998

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FEATURED ARTICLES
Kitchens through the Ages
Kitchens through the Ages
by Andrew F. Smith Read it on Gourmet Live

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Birdseye:
The Adventures of a Curious Man

by Andrew F. Smith

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The Noble Experiment in
New York

by Andrew F. Smith

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The Pecan: A Culinary History
by Andrew F. Smith

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Did Hunger Defeat the Confederacy?
by Andrew F. Smith Did Hunger Defeat the Confederacy PDF

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Chipping Away at British and American English
by Andrew F. Smith

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Historical Virtues of the Walnut
by Andrew F. Smith

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