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A Woman’s Work etc.

A Woman’s Place: The Inventors, Rumrunners, Lawbreakers, Scientists & Single Moms who Changed the World with Food by Deepi Ahluwalia, Stef Ferrari, Jessica Olah

August 20, 2025 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 8: Work A Woman’s Place: The Inventors, Rumrunners, Lawbreakers, Scientists & Single Moms who Changed the World with Food is basically a short illustrated encyclopedia of women who influenced the food world. The overall thesis is that their intellectual, physical, and cultural work across centuries and places has gone under-acknowledged. These women in different ways had to work to take care of themselves, their families, and communities, and in the process came up with things ranging from Camembert cheese to dishwashers to famous cookbooks […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, A Woman’s Place: The Inventors Rumrunners Lawbreakers Scientists & Single Moms who Changed the World with Food, cbr17bingo, Deepi Ahluwalia, Deepi Ahluwalia, Stef Ferrari, Jessica Olah, food history, Jessica Olah, recipes, restaurants, Stef Ferrari, technology history, Women's History

CoffeeShopReader's CBR17 Review No:41 · Genres: Cooking/Food, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, A Woman’s Place: The Inventors Rumrunners Lawbreakers Scientists & Single Moms who Changed the World with Food, cbr17bingo, Deepi Ahluwalia, Deepi Ahluwalia, Stef Ferrari, Jessica Olah, food history, Jessica Olah, recipes, restaurants, Stef Ferrari, technology history, Women's History ·
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Funny and poignant just like her podcasts

Raw Dog by Jamie Loftus

September 3, 2023 by cosbrarian 1 Comment

I’m a big fan of Jamie Loftus’s work in the podcast sphere, so I’ve had a hold on the audio of RAW DOG since it came out. Finally it was my turn! Tragically, I had a weird download and some of the book was clipped out in the beginning. But I was too impatient to re-download and felt guilty hanging onto such a popular book for a long time. So I didn’t reread – it’s possible I missed some stuff. The book starts out with […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Cooking/Food, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: audiobook, bestseller, food history, hot dogs, jamie loftus, road trip

cosbrarian's CBR15 Review No:8 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Cooking/Food, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: audiobook, bestseller, food history, hot dogs, jamie loftus, road trip ·
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The Dramatic Story of How Cup Noodle Came to Be

Project X Challengers: Cup Noodle by Tadashi Katoh

July 13, 2022 by GentleRain 4 Comments

Sadly this book is out of print and completely unavailable, which is a shame (the one copy I could find for sale is $87, so unless you’re so moved by my review that you’re willing to pay that, this is out of reach for most people). I luckily got this copy back when it first came out in 2006 and it’s a cult classic for me that I re-read every few years. Project X Challengers: Cup Noodle tells the dramatic story of how Cup Noodle was […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: food history, food science, manga, Tadashi Katoh

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:74 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: food history, food science, manga, Tadashi Katoh ·
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History of several kinds

The Cooking Gene by Michael Twitty

November 30, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

I have to admit up front that I did not completely finish The Cooking Gene; I had it from the library and ran out of renewals before I had to return it. This is not a fast read if you want to really get the content and the feeling. I don’t mean that the style is hard to read; on the contrary, it’s written in a pretty conversational way. What made it slower for me was the depth of what was being presented. This came […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Cooking/Food, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, african american history, American History, auto-biography, food history, lgbtq history, Michael Twitty, non fiction, slave history, The Cooking Gene

CoffeeShopReader's CBR12 Review No:84 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Cooking/Food, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, african american history, American History, auto-biography, food history, lgbtq history, Michael Twitty, non fiction, slave history, The Cooking Gene ·
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Six Drinks and A Few Empires

A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage

April 11, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

I need to clean off my coffee table. I remembered something from A History of the World in 6 Glasses, but then couldn’t find the book to confirm it. I figured maybe I’d finished it way earlier than I thought and had given it away. But no, it was just buried under stuff on the coffee table. Turns out, I hadn’t quite finished it either. The premise is a history of cultural development around the world as it connects to the general history of the […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, A history of the world in 6 glasses, Beer, beverage history, Coca Cola, coffee, colonialism, food history, Imperialism, Pepsi, rum, Spirits, tea, Tom Standage, wine

CoffeeShopReader's CBR12 Review No:28 · Genres: Cooking/Food, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, A history of the world in 6 glasses, Beer, beverage history, Coca Cola, coffee, colonialism, food history, Imperialism, Pepsi, rum, Spirits, tea, Tom Standage, wine ·
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Highly Debatable is right

The 100 Most Jewish Foods by Alana Newhouse

March 1, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I have had an interesting run with library books lately. I have been going in for one thing and often coming out with at least one thing I hadn’t planned on. This is not a complaint, but I have to wonder if my doppelganger in terms of reading tastes may have been recently hired on there. So, on to The 100 Most Jewish Foods: A Highly Debatable List. I am not Jewish, but I do have an interest in food writing and history. This book […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food Tagged With: #food, Alana Newhouse, cuisine, food history, food writing, Jewish cuisine, recipes, The 100 Most Jewish Foods

CoffeeShopReader's CBR12 Review No:17 · Genres: Cooking/Food · Tags: #food, Alana Newhouse, cuisine, food history, food writing, Jewish cuisine, recipes, The 100 Most Jewish Foods ·
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