Breakfast: A History

5 best books like Breakfast: A History (Heather Arndt Anderson): Why Evolution Is True, Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine, Forrest Gump, Champagne: How the World's Most Glamorous Wine Triumphed Over War and Hard Times, Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply

Why Evolution Is True

Author	Jerry A. Coyne
ISBN	0670020532

Why evolution is more than just a theory: it is a fact.

In all the current highly publicized debates about creationism and its descendant "intelligent design," there is an element of the controversy that is rarely mentioned-the "evidence," the empirical truth of evolution by natural selection....

Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine

Author	Sarah Lohman
ISBN	1476753954

This unique culinary history of America offers a fascinating look at our past and uses long-forgotten recipes to explain how eight flavors changed how we eat.

The United States boasts a culturally and ethnically diverse population which makes for a continually changing culinary landscape....

Forrest Gump

Author	Winston Groom
ISBN	0743453255

Форрест Гамп - наивный и доверчивый человек, сохранивший незамутнённый детский взгляд на мир, - рассказывает на страницах романа историю своей жизни....

Champagne: How the World's Most Glamorous Wine Triumphed Over War and Hard Times

Author

Don Kladstrup

Throughout history, waves of invaders have coveted the northeast corner of France: Attila the Hun in the fifth century, the English in the Hundred Years War, the Prussians in the nineteenth century. Yet this region – which historians say has suffered more battles and wars than any other place on earth...

Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply

Author	Vandana Shiva
ISBN	0896086070

Hm. Let's start with the obvious. Big agribusiness fucking sucks. I'm from Iowa. I know this in my bones. Anyone who tries to argue that seed-saving is theft is an enemy of the people and deserves a day in the stocks at the very least.

But... why does her argument have to be so bullheadedly unscientific?...