Bibliography
General
Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York, NY: WW Norton & Company, 2005. This book is better on Old World topics than on New World topics. For correct information on the New World, read Mann.
Fussell, Betty. Story of Corn. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2004 This is an excellent book. I highly recommend it.
Mann, Charles C. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. New York, NY: Knopf, 2005. Excellent background reading with well researched sections of food and farming.
Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. New York, NY: The Penguin Press, 2006. Good for the section on corn, but it has very little to say beyond what Fussell presents.
Brody, J. E. "To Preserve Their Health and Heritage, Arizona Indians Reclaim Ancient Foods." New York Times May 21, 1991. The inspiration for it all. . .
Mesoamerican and South American Foods
Coe, Sophie. America's First Cuisines. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1994. Excellent book, exhaustively researched. I wish she had done one on North America, too. This book also has an excellent bibliography including many of the Spanish colonial sources.
Coe, Sophie and Michael. The True History of Chocolate. London: Thames & Hudson, 1996. Wonderful book.
Ecott, Tim. Vanilla: Travels in Search of the Ice Cream Orchid. New York, NY: Grove Press, 2004.
Foster, Nelson & L.S. Cordell. Chilies to Chocolate: Food the Americans Gave the World. Tucson, Arizona: The University of Arizona Press, 1992. Compilation of papers from an earlier conference. Some of the information is a bit out of date, but the book is generally useful.
North American Foods
Donck, Adriaen van der. A Description of the New Netherlands. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1968. Reprint of the 1841 translation by Jeremiah Johnson from the 1655 Dutch original. Van der Donck was a lawyer in the Dutch colony(New York State). It has come to my attention that this translation is missing pieces of the original 1655 Dutch version; additionally it may have some problems in the translation that change the perspective from van der Donck's original. If work is being done using this work, I would recommend trying to find a more recent translation.
Gookin, Daniel. Historical Collections of the Indians in New England. New York, NY: Arno Press, 1972. Reprint of Gookin's original work. Gookin was a supervisor of "praying Indians" in Massachusetts Bay Colony in the late 1600s.
Josselyn, John. New Enlgand's Rarities Discovered. Boston, MA: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1972. Reprint of Josselyn's original. Josselyn was an English gentleman with holdings in Maine. Focuses largely on Maine and seems to be a bit more biased than Williams.
Little, Elizabeth A. "Kantantouwit's Legacy: Calibrated Dates on Maize in New England", American Antiquity, Vol. 67, No1, (Jan., 2002) pp.109-118 Good article, may be a bit technical for those not well versed in science.
Little, Elizabeth A., Margaret J. Schoeninger. "The Late Woodland Diet on Nantucket Island and the Problem of Maize in Costal New England ." American Antiquity 60(1995): 351-368. Good article, may be a bit technical for those not well versed in science.
Mancini, Jason. Personal interview, telephone interview, and e-mail interview. June and July 2006. Jason Mancini is a Senior Historical Researcher at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum in Mashantucket, CT.
Peters, Russell M. Clambake: A Wampanoag Tradition. Minneapolis, MN. Lerner Publications Company, 1992 This is a children's book on the tradition of clambakes. It is written at about a 5th grade level.
Wilbur, C. Keith. The New England Indians: an illustrated sourcebook of authentic details of everyday Indian life. Guilford, CT. The Globe Pequot Press, 1996. This is another children's book. It has very detailed illustrations. However, it covers all of New England, so it should be used in that light.
Williams, Roger. A Key into the Language of America. 5th ed. Providence, RI: E. A. Johnson Company, 1936. Reprint with updated spelling of the 1643 original. Williams founded the Rhode Island Colony and spent quite a bit of time making sure the local Indians were friendly. This book focuses on the Narragansett Indians.
Wilson, Gilbert L.. Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden: The classic account of Hidatsa American Indian gardening techniques. Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Historical Society, 1987. Wilson was a minister and amateur anthropologist. This book is an excellent resource for the upper Midwest cultures.
Wood, William. New England's Prospect. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1977. Reprint of Wood's original work. Wood was an Englishman who spent quite a bit of time in New England. The work is reasonably unbiased, but not as well researched as William's book.
Nutrition
Any decent and recent Health text book or human Biology text book will be a useful reference.
Nutrient Data Laboratory, "National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference." USDA. 17 October 2005. USDA. 28 Jul 2006 http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/>. This is a very useful database for nutritional information. The site should be reasonably stable as it is a government site.
Manier, J., P. Callahan, D. Alexander. "Craving the cookie: The brain is wired to love sweets, but are they addictive? America's iconic cookie captures the nation's burgeoning dietary dilemma." Chicago Tribune August 21, 2005
Callahan, P., D. Alexander, J. Manier. "As fat fears grow, Oreo tries new twist: Kraft's push to build a billion-dollar brand collides with the obesity crisis, forcing changes in junk-food marketing." Chicago Tribune August 22, 2005
Alexander, D., J. Manier, P. Callahan. "For every fad, another cookie: How science and diet crazes confuse consumers, reshape recipes and fail, ultimately, to reform eating habits." Chicago Tribune August 23, 2005
Callahan, P., D. Alexander, J. Manier. "Where there's smoke, there might be food research, too: Documents indicate Kraft, Philip Morris shared expertise on how the brain processes tastes, smells." Chicago Tribune January 29, 2006
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