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Review of The Devil’s Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee by Stewart Lee Allen (1999)

Review of Caviar: The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the World’s Most Coveted Delicacy (2002), by Inga Saffron.

Review of From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age(2023) by Xaq Frohlich

Review of Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World’s Most Caffeine-Rich Plant (2022) by Seth Garfield

The New World and Beyond: A Review of New World Nature

IHS Climate in Context Roundtable Book Review: Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (1979) by Donald Worster

This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving by David J. Silverman (2019)

Red China’s Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development under the Commune by Joshua Eisenman (2018)

Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China, by Frank Dikötter, Lars Peter Laamann, and Zhou Xun (2004)

Book cover of Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler (2016)

Magical Realism on Drugs: Colombian History in Netflix’s Narcos

A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico jointly created the Mexican Drug War, by Carmen Boullosa and Mike Wallace (2015)

When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity, by Kolleen M. Guy (2010)

Great Books on Urban Foodways

Great Books on Smoking History

The Cuban Connection by Eduardo Saénz Rovner (2008)

Movie poster of the movie Vatel

Death and Decadence: Vatel (2000)

Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption & Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States by John Soluri (2005)

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