Chocolate Chip Cookie History
- Wyman, Carolyn, The Great American Chocolate Chip Cookie Book: Scrumptious Recipes & Fabled History From Toll House to Cookie Cake Pie, Woodstock: The Countryman Press, 2013.
Sugar History Books
- Abbott, Elizabeth, Sugar: A Bittersweet History, London: Duckworth, 2009.
- Aronson, Marc and Marina Budhos, Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science, New York: Clarion Books, 2010. (Also see: Marc Aronson’s Sugarchangedtheworld.com)
- Mintz, Sidney, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History, New York: Penguin
Books, 1985.
Articles
Salt History Books
- Kurlansky, Mark, Salt: A World History, New York: Walker Books, 2002.
- Young readers must read Kurlansky’s The Story of Salt.
Chocolate History Books
- Brenner, Joel Glenn, The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey & Mars (Not specifically about chips but a fascinating read of the chocolate industry’s most legendary leaders and competitors. You will never look at M&Ms and Reese’s candy the same again!)
- Presilla, Maricel E., The New Taste of Chocolate: A Cultural & Natural History of Cacao With Recipes,
Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2009.
- Coe, Sophie, The True History of Chocolate, Thames Hudson, 2019 — a scholarly look at the ancient roots of cacao from its Mayan origins by the wife of Michael Coe, famed Maya scholar
Vanilla History Books
- Rain, Patricia, The Vanilla Cookbook: The Cultural History of the World’s Favorite Flavor & Fragrance, 2nd Ed., New York: Tarcher, 2004.
- Articles about the vanilla industry and history:
Egg History
Butter History
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- Khosrova, Elaine, Butter: A Rich History
Flour and Wheat
- Encyclopedia.com – The Natural History of Wheat
- Koopman, Ken, People Before Profit: The Inspiring Story of the Founder of Bob’s Red Mill
- Medrich, Alice, Gluten-free Flavor Flours (not a history book but a great baking book)
Books By and About
Cookie Entrepreneurs
- Amos, Wally, The Cookie Never Crumbles: Practical Recipes for Everyday Living, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001.
- Fields, Debbi, One Smart Cookie: How a Housewife’s Chocolate Chip Recipe Turned into a Multimillion-Dollar
Business : The Story of Mrs. Fields Cookies, Simon & Schuster, 1987
- Mrs. Fields also wrote the Mrs. Fields Cookie Book: 100 Recipes from the Kitchen of Mrs. Fields by Debbie Fields
Articles about Fannie Farmer (The Mother of Level Measurements)
- Fannie Farmer Was the Original Rachel Ray, Smithsonian, August 23, 2017 — p.s. that article title does NOT do Fannie Farmer justice, which you will find when you read the article. She was groundbreaking in so many ways, well beyond Julia Child in fact.
- Interesting interview about Fannie Farmer and the the Fannie Farmer Cookbook, Univeristy of Washington Information School
- Farmer, Fannie, The Boston School of Cookery Cookbook —Peruse the 1918 version of Fannie Farmer’s iconic cookbook online, thanks to the Smithsonian.
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