
Ken Albala
Author · 16 books
Ken Albala, Professor of History at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA and Director of Food Studies in San Francisco, is the author or editor of 25 books on food. These include academic monographs, cookbooks, reference works and translations. He is also series editor of Rowman and Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy. His current project is about Walking with Wine.
Series
Books

The Lost Art of Real Cooking
Rediscovering the Pleasures of Traditional Food One Recipe at a Time
2010

Food in Early Modern Europe
2003

History of Bourbon
2019

The Food History Reader
Primary Sources
2014

Noodle Soup
Recipes, Techniques, Obsession
2017

Beans
A History
2007

Food
A Cultural Culinary History
2013

Colonial Cookery in North America
2013

Pancake
A Global History
2008

Aztecs and the Roots of Mexican Cooking
2013

The Banquet
Dining in the Great Courts of Late Renaissance Europe
2007

Nuts
A Global History
2014

The Lost Arts of Hearth and Home
The Happy Luddite's Guide to Domestic Self-Sufficiency
2012

Eating Right in the Renaissance
2002

The Great Gelatin Revival
Savory Aspics, Jiggly Shots, and Outrageous Desserts
2022

Cooking in Europe, 1250-1650
2006