What's For Dinner? v9.42 - Historical Food

I mentioned a few weeks ago that I'd fairly recently discovered the variety of books on the subject of food history. To start with, the concept includes several different sub-genres: some writers focus on the crops from an agricultural or economic viewpoint, others cover locations or time periods, others talk about eating and cooking. Those are just some of the options, each itself divided into books for a general audience and unreadable academic histories.