Gastropod Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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The Great American Chocolate Chip Cookie Book
Carolyn WymanGastropodCarolyn Wyman is a chocolate chip cookie aficionado, and her extensive research on Ruth Wakefield and the Toll House restaurant for The Great American Chocolate Chip Cookie Book shed light on Ruth’s story: https://t.co/V3jANEh55e
Paperback, 2013
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Pesticides, a Love Story: America's Enduring Embrace of Dangerous Chemicals
Michelle MartGastropodMichelle Mart is the author of the book Pesticides: A Love Story and our guide through America’s short but disastrous history of herbicide use, including these chemicals’ ties to war: https://t.co/qDSmAyUM8P
Paperback, 2018
$34.99$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Coconut: A Global History
Mary NewmanGastropodTo find out, follow and subscribe for "Trouble In Paradise" — and if you need more nutty tales, check out guest Mary Newman’s book Coconut: A Global History, for coconut history, myths, rituals and recipes! https://t.co/YwYpumDcip
Hardcover, 2022
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future
Bartow J. ElmoreGastropodEnvironmental historian @BartElmore guided us through Monsanto’s transformation from humble startup to hated goliath. You can read more about this dark history in his latest book, Seed Money: Monsanto’s Past and Our Food Future. https://t.co/FHE09JCzhd
Hardcover, 2021
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mouthfeel: How Texture Makes Taste
Ole MouritsenGastropodIf you were fascinated by this episode, Ole’s book is basically the texture bible. Learn everything you never knew you wanted to know in Mouthfeel: How Texture Makes Taste! https://t.co/NF2F5ob5LW
Paperback, 2018
$50.00$25.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Book of Eels
Patrik SvenssonGastropodPatrik Svensson served as this episode's guide to the eel’s many mysteries. If you, too, are intrigued by the eel, count yourself in good company (Freud would approve) and check out Patrik’s great book, The Book of Eels: https://t.co/NxCOWYyZuE
Paperback, 2021
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fish and Chips: A Takeaway History
Panikos PanayiGastropodYou can find more about the history of “the first takeaway” (more in the episode on whether that’s true…!) in Panikos’ latest book, Fish and Chips: A Takeaway History! https://t.co/dDnTgyT0cv
Paperback, 2022
$17.50$8.75 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Inventing Baby Food: Taste, Health, and the Industrialization of the American Diet Volume 51
Amy BentleyGastropodToday, the US shortage of infant formula is a crisis. But commercial formula has only been around for about 150 years. @ABentleyNYC tells us the story of where it came from in our latest episode — for more, check out her book, Inventing Baby Food; https://t.co/RQzgmpTMYc
Paperback, 2014
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Chicle: The Chewing Gum of the Americas, from the Ancient Maya to William Wrigley
Jennifer P. MathewsGastropodYou can read more about how chewing gum left Mexico and became a muti-billion dollar industry in Jennifer’s book, Chicle: The Chewing Gum of the Americas, from the Ancient Maya to William Wrigley: https://t.co/TvPjaaKqj7
Paperback, 2009
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lorax
Dr SeussGastropodLake Erie was once in such bad shape that it made a cameo in Dr. Seuss’ “The Lorax.” Happily, versions today don’t have this line, after the Clean Water Act cut phosphorus from Erie’s waters. But the lake is in danger again today, & phosphorus is to blame: https://t.co/RdVF21mP6w https://t.co/fPIfik2v5Z
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