Books about the history of food and medicine (nonfiction)

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Children of the Tipi: Life in the Buffalo Days
Children of the Tipi: Life in the Buffalo Days 4.26 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization
Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization 3.98 avg rating — 585 ratings
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Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health
Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health 3.90 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health 3.94 avg rating — 4,624 ratings
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The Bitterest Pills: The Troubling Story of Antipsychotic Drugs
The Bitterest Pills: The Troubling Story of Antipsychotic Drugs 4.17 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America
Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America 3.76 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Lithium: A Doctor, a Drug, and a Breakthrough
Lithium: A Doctor, a Drug, and a Breakthrough 3.60 avg rating — 409 ratings
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
by: Beth Macy
4.07 avg rating — 44,193 ratings
109.
Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll: How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits and Wanderers Created a New American Profession
Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll: How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits and Wanderers Created a New American Profession 3.63 avg rating — 334 ratings
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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich 4.05 avg rating — 30,232 ratings
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Shamanic Graffiti: 100,000 Years of Drugs, 100 Years of Prohibition
Shamanic Graffiti: 100,000 Years of Drugs, 100 Years of Prohibition 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America’s Deadliest Drug Epidemic
American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America’s Deadliest Drug Epidemic 4.26 avg rating — 2,453 ratings
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Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients 4.10 avg rating — 9,121 ratings
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The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug 4.09 avg rating — 5,801 ratings
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When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail
When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail 3.86 avg rating — 533 ratings
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Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball
Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball 3.87 avg rating — 289 ratings
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The Chocolate Tree: A Natural History of Cacao
The Chocolate Tree: A Natural History of Cacao 3.58 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Chocolate: Pathway to the Gods
Chocolate: Pathway to the Gods 4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The True History of Chocolate
The True History of Chocolate 3.80 avg rating — 1,519 ratings
120.
A Question Of Intent: A Great American Battle With A Deadly Industry
A Question Of Intent: A Great American Battle With A Deadly Industry 4.17 avg rating — 283 ratings
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The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite
The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite 3.67 avg rating — 8,563 ratings
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The Archaeology of Smoking and Tobacco
The Archaeology of Smoking and Tobacco 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Poison Tea: How Big Oil and Big Tobacco Invented the Tea Party and Captured the GOP
Poison Tea: How Big Oil and Big Tobacco Invented the Tea Party and Captured the GOP 3.71 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science
Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 3.67 avg rating — 1,469 ratings
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Big Sugar: Seasons in the Cane Fields of Florida
Big Sugar: Seasons in the Cane Fields of Florida 3.64 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Larder: Food Studies Methods from the American South
The Larder: Food Studies Methods from the American South 3.64 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Southern Food
Southern Food 4.23 avg rating — 62 ratings
128.
Southern Food and Civil Rights: Feeding the Revolution
Southern Food and Civil Rights: Feeding the Revolution 3.64 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit 3.96 avg rating — 4,507 ratings
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The Takeover: Chicken Farming and the Roots of American Agribusiness
The Takeover: Chicken Farming and the Roots of American Agribusiness 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
131.
Saving American Farmland: What Works
Saving American Farmland: What Works it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland
Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland 3.93 avg rating — 382 ratings
133.
The Last Harvest: Truck Farmers in the Deep South
The Last Harvest: Truck Farmers in the Deep South 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Oyster War: The True Story of a Small Farm, Big Politics, and the Future of Wilderness in America
The Oyster War: The True Story of a Small Farm, Big Politics, and the Future of Wilderness in America 3.96 avg rating — 351 ratings
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Pumpkin, Pumpkin: Folklore, History, Planting Hints and Good Eating
Pumpkin, Pumpkin: Folklore, History, Planting Hints and Good Eating 3.69 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Corn: A Global History
Corn: A Global History 3.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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A Culinary History of Florida: Prickly Pears, Datil Peppers & Key Limes
A Culinary History of Florida: Prickly Pears, Datil Peppers & Key Limes 3.50 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Louisiana Crawfish: A Succulent History of the Cajun Crustacean
Louisiana Crawfish: A Succulent History of the Cajun Crustacean
by: Sam Irwin
4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings
139.
A History of the Hemp Industry in Kentucky
A History of the Hemp Industry in Kentucky 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Tastes Like Chicken: A History of America's Favorite Bird
Tastes Like Chicken: A History of America's Favorite Bird 3.83 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Melon: A Global History
Melon: A Global History 3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig
Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig 4.15 avg rating — 861 ratings
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Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
by: Cindy Ott
3.60 avg rating — 116 ratings
144.
The Pecan: A History of America's Native Nut
The Pecan: A History of America's Native Nut 3.67 avg rating — 55 ratings
145.
Beans: A History
Beans: A History 3.65 avg rating — 221 ratings
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Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?: The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization
Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?: The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization 3.75 avg rating — 579 ratings
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The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell 3.95 avg rating — 5,152 ratings
148.
Shrimp: The Endless Quest for Pink Gold
Shrimp: The Endless Quest for Pink Gold 3.52 avg rating — 99 ratings
149.
Nets & Doors: Shrimping in Southern Waters
Nets & Doors: Shrimping in Southern Waters 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Last Lobster: Boom or Bust for Maine's Greatest Fishery?
The Last Lobster: Boom or Bust for Maine's Greatest Fishery? 3.47 avg rating — 74 ratings
151.
Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization
Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization 3.58 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Cod and Herring: The Archaeology and History of Medieval Sea Fishing
Cod and Herring: The Archaeology and History of Medieval Sea Fishing really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Tragedy of the Commodity: Oceans, Fisheries, and Aquaculture
The Tragedy of the Commodity: Oceans, Fisheries, and Aquaculture 4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Founding Fish
The Founding Fish 3.94 avg rating — 1,191 ratings
155.
Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America
Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America 3.78 avg rating — 3,343 ratings
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Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat
Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat 3.92 avg rating — 1,051 ratings
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What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories
What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories 3.27 avg rating — 4,779 ratings
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Sex on the Kitchen Table: The Romance of Plants and Your Food
Sex on the Kitchen Table: The Romance of Plants and Your Food 3.87 avg rating — 31 ratings
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100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today
100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today 3.62 avg rating — 597 ratings
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The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats
The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats 3.94 avg rating — 3,596 ratings
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Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food
Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food 3.75 avg rating — 245 ratings
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Precious Cargo: How Foods From the Americas Changed The World
Precious Cargo: How Foods From the Americas Changed The World 3.19 avg rating — 27 ratings
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