History

Cambridge World History of Food

• Offers a geographical perspective on the history and culture of food and drink.
• Includes a dictionary that identifies and gives brief histories of plant foods mentioned in the text.

Encyclopedia of Food & Culture

• Entries on everything from food preparation, distribution and storage to holidays and festivals, nutrition and health, and cultures and cuisines.
• Includes photographs and illustrations, recipes, menus, & timelines

Elizabethan World Reference Library

• Perfect for both history and literatures studies.
• Covers topics such as religion and politics, war and conflict, science and education, as well as the Elizabethan worldview, Elizabethan court, daily life and the culture of music, art and literature.
• Biographies includes Shakespeare's contemporaries.

Holidays, Festivals, and Celebrations of the World

• Describes 2,500 holidays, festivals, commemorations, holy days, feasts and fasts, and other observances from all parts of the world.