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Default Hardcore Food/Cooking Books

Recent acquisitions. These are not your typical Rachel Ray or
Emeril Lagasse books you find in used and second-hand bookstores.

This first one is a must for anybody seriously into food, sociology,
history, and cooking.

Encyclopedia of Food and Culture (3 Volume Set)
[http://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-C...dp/0684805685/
This is a monster of a compilation filled with great topics and
info. If you can't find anything in here to read, then stick to the
watching FoodTV and eating at Booger King and remain oblivious.

Dictionary of Food Ingredients 4th Edition
[http://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Foo...dp/0834219522/
Acesulfame Potassium, Balsam Peru Oil, Calcium Caseinate, Disodium
Calcium EDTA, ....., Zein. You get the idea. It has normal
home-use ingredients, too. Much more interesting and authoritative
than the Oxford/Penguin Companion to Food.

Food Processing Technology, 2nd Edition
http://www.amazon.com/Food-Processin...dp/0895736098/
Everything you never knew you didn't even care about, in
excruciating detail. OK, this one be a little dry for some of you.
But it was really cheap.

On the lighter side:

Street Food
http://www.amazon.com/Street-Food-To.../dp/0756628504

In Defense of Food (Audio version 5-CD set)
http://www.amazon.com/Defense-Food-E.../dp/0143142747