During her Classes Without Quizzes' session at Family Days, Elisabeth Piedmont-Marton offered a list of suggested readings to her "students." In an effort to continue this lifelong learning opportunity, the Office of Alumni and Parent Relations shares this list of readings with all members of the parent community.

Salt Cod and Cool Whip: Adventures in American Culinary History
Suggested Readings, compiled by Elisabeth Piedmont-Marton, associate professor of English, Paideia® Professor, director of the Debby Ellis Writing Center and chair of the Humanities Division
(Click on a title and you will be directed to this book on Amazon.com.)

Levenstein, Harvey, Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America

Levenstein, Harvey, Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet

Shapiro, Laura, Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century

Shapiro, Laura, Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s American

Pollan, Michael, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Pollan, Michael, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto

Pollan, Michael, The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World

Kurlansky, Mark, Salt: A World History

Kurlanksy, Mark, Cod

Belasco, Warren, Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food

Kamp, David, United States of Arugula

Hernandez-Armesto, Felipe, Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food

McWilliams, James E., A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America

Root, Waverly and Richard de Rochemont, Eating in America: A History

Fitch, Noel Riley, Appetite for Life: A Biography of Julia Child

Child, Julia, My Life in France

Fisher, M.F.K. and Joan Reardon, The Art of Eating

McGee, Harold, On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

Trillin, Calvin, The Tummy Trilogy

Steingarten, Jeffrey, The Man Who Ate Everything

Steingarten, Jeffrey, It Must Have Been Something I Ate: The Return of the Man Who Ate Everything

Buford, Bill, Heat

Schlosser, Eric, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the American Meal

Click here to view Piedmont-Marton's First-Year Seminar "Salt Cod and Cool Whip: Adventures in American Culinary History" syllabus.

If you  have any questions about the above readings, please contact Dr. Piedmont-Marton at piedmone@southwestern.edu.