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MODERN FOOD FOR MODERN PEOPLE

Chris Berube: I Can’t Believe It’s Pink Margarine. 99% Invisible, 19 October 2021
Monica Heisey: This Man Thinks He Never Has to Eat Again. Vice, 13 March 2013
Manya Koetse: Lao Gan MA: The Story of China’s Most Spicy Godmother Tao Huabi. What’s on Weibo, 15 February 2007
Rob Rhinehart: How I Stopped Eating Food. robrhinehart.com, 13 February 2013. Through the Internet Archive.
Unknown: Erfinder der Seitan-Wurst: EU-Entscheidung gegen “vegane Wurst” ist ein Rückschritt. Vegconomist, 14 October 2025.

THE DIETS ARE A-CHANGING: ON HIPPIES, THEIR PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN

Claudia Becker: Der Kohlrabi-Apostel. Berliner Morgenpost, 22 August 2010
Deborah Cole: Antidote to online: Germany’s one-stop wellness shops get ready for Christmas. The Guardian, 15 December 2024
Joan Didion: Slouching Towards Bethlehem. In: Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968
Etymology of the word ‘organic’, Etymonline
Kate Binzen Fuller: Organic Agriculture. Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Updated 27 January 2026
Jonathan Kauffmann: Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat. William Morrow, 2018
Christine Muhlke: The Hippies Have Won. New York Times, 14 April 2018
Jan Whitaker: Famous In Its Day: The Aware Inn. Restaurant-ing Through History, 2011
Menaka Wilhelm: The Far Out History of How Hippie Food Spread Across America, NPR, 23 January 2017

MILDRED PIERCE MAKES GOOD PIE (AND MAKES GOOD MONEY DOING IT)

James M. Cain: Mildred Pierce. Alfred A. Knopf, 1941.
Greg Garrett: The Many Faces of Mildred Pierce: A Case Study of Adaptation and the Studio System. In: Literature/Film Quarterly, Volume 23, Number 4, 1995
Stanley Edgar Hyman: The Tortoise and the Hare. In: The New Republic, 6 October 1941
Adrienne Matei: From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: Why strongmen rely on women at home. In: The Guardian, 21 September 2025 
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela: Politicizing and Practicing Motherhood: Why We Should Care What Phyllis Schlafley Served Her Kids for Breakfast. 2006
Julie Weiss: Feminist Film Theory and Women’s History: Mildred Pierce and the Twentieth Century. In: Film & History, Volume XXII, Number 3, September 1992
Janet L. Yellen: The History Of Women’s Work and Wages and How It Has Created Success For Us All. 2020

SELLING FOOD PT I: E IS FOR EDIBLE

Mac van Dinther: De Tien Geboden van Goed Eten, deel 4: Gij zult géén E-nummers eten. In: De Volkskrant, 25 November 2014
Stefan Gates: Stefan Gates on E Numbers. Cassell Illustrated, 2010
Corinne Gouget: Danger, Additifs Alimentaires. Éditions Chariot D’Or, 2006
J.N. Kapferer: A Mass Poisoning Rumor in Europe. In: The Public Opinion Quarterly. Winter 1989, Volume 53. 
Liesbeth Oerlemans: ‘Wat zit er in uw eten’ bevat veel fouten. 29 September 2012
Unknown: Corinne Gouget overleden. Smakelijck, 11 November 2015
Video: Interview with Nestlé Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe. Via Facebook, 19 April 2024
Video: Mangez Cru: Corinne Gouget, une vie contre l’aspartame. Via YouTube, 3 July 2015 
Bee Wilson: Swindled. From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee — The Dark History of the Food Cheats. John Murray, 2009

SELLING FOOD PT II: NOSTALGIA AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE

Roland Barthes: Mythologies. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
Deborah Cole: Germany challenges Turkey’s protected status claim for the doner kebab. The Guardian, 24 July 2024
Benjamin Cordes: Feindbild Tofu. Kaisergranat, 20 August 2025
Olga Oksman: How lobbyists made breakfast ‘the most important meal of the day’. The Guardian, 28 November 2016
Daniela Pirani: Invented Market Traditions: The Marketing of Italian Breakfast (1973-1996). Published in: Business History 2024, Volume 66
Alix Spiegel: Freud’s Nephew and the Origins of Public Relations. NPR, 22 April 2005
John Tosh: The Pursuit of History. Second Edition. Longman, 1991
Unknown: CSU-Chef mit alles und scharf — Söder hat jetzt eigene Dönermarke. Stern, 25 August 2025
Unknown: Turkiye withdraws EU bid to standardise Doner Kebab. Arab News, 27 September 2025
Video: Edward L. Bernays Beechnut Packing Co. Via YouTube, 12 September 2014
Bennett Voyles: Bacon, eggs, and public relations: how pr pioneer Edward L. Bernays changed America.

MORE IS MORE: A HISTORY OF BEING FULL

Thomas Aquinas: Question 148. Gluttony. In: Summa Theologica. 1485
Peter J Brown: Culture and the Evolution of Obesity. In: Human Nature, Volume 2, No 1, 1991
Anne Ewbank: In Medieval Baghdad, Rulers Held Elite Cook-Offs. Atlas Obscura, 30 Junuary 2019
Eric Grundhauser: Competitive Eating Was Even More Gluttonous and Disgusting in the 17th Century. Atlas Obscura, 11 July 2017
Paul Freedman: A New History of Cuisine. In: Food. The History of Taste. Edited by Paul Freedman. London, 2007
Helen Millar: What to know about obesity and poverty. Medical News Today, 25 April 2023
Chase Peterson-Withorn: Forbes’ 36th Annual World’s Billionaires List: Facts and Figures 2022. Forbes, 5 April 2022
John Taylor: The great eater, of Kent, or Part of the admirable teeth and stomacks exploits of Nicholas Wood, of Harrisom in the county of Kent His excessiue manner of eating without manners, in strange and true manner described, by Iohn Taylor. London, 1630
Matt Wuerker: The Art of the Fat Cat. Politico, July/August 2014
Fehmida Zakeer: The 10th Century Master Chef Who Wrote Poetry. Atlas Obscura, 12 October 2013
Ariel Zilber: Elon Musk responds to pics of him shirtless in Mykonos: ‘Free the nip!’. New York Post, 19 July 2022

FOOD.COM: EATING ON THE INTERNET

Tony Bonnici: ‘Non!’ French chefs rebel against ‘food porn’ photos. The Times, 16 February 2014
Mike Butcher: Minority Report and Precime arrives via a Facebook events page — for a BBQ. TechCrunch, 17 July 2009
Daily Mail Reporter: Riot police raid 30th barbecue because man used Facebook to invite friends. The Daily Mail, 17 July 2009
Colette Davidson: Sharing a photo of your Paris meal? French chefs say ‘non’. Christian Science Monitor, 8 March 2014
Dayna Evans: Julie Powell, Writer Behind Beloved Early Food Blog the Julie/Julia Project, Has Died. Eater, 1 November 2022
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Robert Sietsema: Remembering Chowhound, an Early Online Food Forum for NYC’s Restaurant Obsessives. Eater, 14 March 2022
Video: How to Become TripAdvisor’s #1 Fake Restaurant. Via YouTube, 22 January 2018

ON HAMSTERS AND OTHER ANIMALS

AJMC staff: A Timeline of Covid-19 Developments in 2020. AJMC, 1 January 2021
Dennis Dutton: It’s Always the End of the World as We Know It. New York Times, 31 December 2009
Laura McEnany: Civil Defense Begins at Home: Militarization Meets Everyday Life in the Fifties. Princeton University Press, 2000
Jason Hahn: 20 Years Ago, Y2K Hysteria Led to Emergency Bunkers and Cost the U.S. $100 Billion. People, 12 April 2019
Sarah Pruitt: At Cold War Nuclear Fallout Shelters, These Foods Were Stocked For Survival. History, 26 February 2020|
Lily Rothman: Remember Y2K? Here’s How We Prepped for the Non-Disaster. Time, 31 December 2014
Peter Rubinstein: Why grocery shelves won’t be empty for long. BBC, 2 April 2020
Amanda Sloat: Cologne Sanitizer, Boxed Wine and Bidets: How People in 68 Countries Are Coping with Coronavirus. Politico 22 March 2020
Patricia Treble: A Y2K Cheklist. MacLeans, 20 December 1999
Unknown: How Long Have Humans Been on Earth? Nine Planets, 5 November 2019
Unknown: Multi-Purpose Food from Fallout Shelter. Wisconsin Historical Society, 14 April 2005