Second Helpings

(Bibliography) 

The following is a list of the published works which inspired, and were the references for, this WebBook. They are all absorbing narratives which provide fascinating and fun reading. If you found NYC EATS or any of its subject matter interesting, I whole-heartedly recommend any or all of these books.

Food History

Baics, Gergely. Feeding Gotham: The Political Economy and Geography of Food in New York, 1790-1860. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016.

Batterberry, Michael and Ariane. On The Town in New York. New York: Routledge, 1999.

Brienza, Laura. New York’s Historic Restaurants, Inns & Taverns: Storied Establishments from the City to the Hudson Valley. Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot, 2016.

Bryson, Bill. At Home: A Short History of Private Life. New York: Doubleday, Randon House LLC, 2010.

Burke, John. Duet in Diamonds: The Flamboyant Saga of Lillian Russell and Diamond Jim Brady in America’s Gilded Age. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1972.

Cahn, William. Out of the Cracker Barrel: From Animal Crackers to Zu Zu’s. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969.

Chen, Yong. Chop Suey, USA: The Story of Chinese Food in America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.

Diehl, Lorraine B. and Marianne Hardart: The Automat: The History, Recipes and Allure of Horn & Hardart’s Masterpiece. New York: Clarkson Potter/Publishers, Random House, Inc., 2002.

Elkort, Martin. The Secret Life of Food: A Feast of Food and Drink History, Folklore, and Fact. Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., 1991.

Franklin, Vincent and Alex Johnson. Menus That Made History: Over 2000 Years of Menus from Ancient Egyptian Food for the Afterlife to Elvis Presley’s Wedding Breakfast. London: Kyle Books, 2019.

Freedman, Paul. Ten Restaurants That Changed America. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.

Grimes, William. Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York. New York: North Point Press, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.

Grimes, Wiiliam. Straight Up or On the Rocks: The Story of the American Cocktail. New York: North Point Press, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.

Hauck-Lawson, Annie and Jonathan Deutsch. Gastropolis: Food & New York City. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.

Joseph, Barry. Seltzertopia: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary Drink. Millburn, NJ: Behrman House, Inc., 2018.

Koeppel, Gerard T. Water for Gotham: A History. Princteon, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 

Kurlansky, Mark. The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell. New York: Random House Publishing Group, 2006.

Lee, Jennifer 8. The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food. New York: Hachette Book Group, 2008.

Lobel, Cindy R. Urban Appetites: Food & Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York. Chicage: The University of Chicago Press, 2014.

Meister, Erin. New York City Coffee: A Caffeinated History. Charleston, SC: American Palate, History Press, 2017.

Merwin, Ted. Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli. New York: New York University Press, 2015.

Nadelson, Reggie. Marvelous Manhattan: Stories of the Restaurants, Bars & Shops That Make This City Special. New York: Artisan, Workman Publishing Company, Inc., 2021.

Parks, Stella. BraveTart: Iconic American Desserts. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2017.

Pomeroy, Ralph. The Ice Cream Connection. New York: Paddington Press Ltd., 1975.

Porcelli, Ronald. New York City’s Oldest Restaurants, Bars and Bakeries. New York: Library Tales Publishing, Inc., 2014.

Santlofer, Joy. Food City: Four Centuries of Food-Making in New York. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2017.

Schnitzspahn, Karen L. Jersey Shore Food History. American Palate, The History Press, Charleston, SC, 2012.

Schwartz, Arthur. Arthur Schwartz’s New York City Food. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2004.

Shopsin, Kenny and Carolynn Carreño. Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.

Shulman, Robin. Eat the City: A Tale of the Fishers, Foragers, Butchers, Farmers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Can Cutters, Beekeepers, Winemakers, and Brewers Who Built New York. New York: Broadway Paperbacks, Random House, Inc. 2012.

Simmons, Amelia. The First American Cookbook: A Facsimile of “American Cookery,” 1796. New York: Dover Publications, Oxford Universty Press, 1958.

Slomanson, Joan Kenel. When Everybody Ate at Schrafft’s: Memories, Pictures, and Recipes From a Very Special Restaurant Empire. Fort Lee, NJ: Barricade Books, 2006.

Smith, Andrew F. New York City: A Food Biography. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.

Various, The Story of Food. New York: DK Publishing, 2018.

Weiss, Laura B. Ice Cream: A Global History. London: Reaktion Books Ltd., 2011.

Wilson, Bee. Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat. New York: Basic Books, Perseus Books, Hachette Book Group, 2013.

Wondrich, David. Imbibe! New York: Perigree, Penguin Group, 2007.

New York History

Allen, Oliver E. New York, New York: A History of the World’s Most Exhilirating and Challenging City. New York: Atheneum, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1990.

Anbinder, Tyler. Five Points: The 19th-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World’s Most Notorious Slum. New York: Free Press, Simon & Schuster, 2001. 

Antoniou, Antonis and Steven Heller. Decoding Manhattan: Island of Diagrams, Maps, and Graphics. New York: Abrams, 2021.

Asbury, Herbert. The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1927.

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Berlin, Ira and Leslie M. Harris, ed. Slavery in New York. New York: The New-York Historical Society, The New Press, 2005.

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Cable, Mary. The Blizzard of ‘88. New York: Atheneum, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1988.

Caro, Robert A. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. New York: Vintage Books, Random House, 1975.

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Ellis, Edward Robb. The Epic of New York City. New York: Old Town Books, 1966.

Fahn, Charlotte and Robert Romagnoli. Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic Park Map & Guide. New York: Friends of the Old Croton Aqueduct, 2018.

Gelernter, David. 1939: The Lost World of the Fair. New York: Avon Books, 1995.

Gethard, Chris. Weird New York. New York: Sterling Publishing co., Inc., 2005.

Gosselink, Martine. New York New Amsterdam: The Dutch Origins of Manhattan. New Amsterdam, Netherlands: Nieuw Amsterdam Uitgevers / Nationaal Archief, 2009

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Pritchard, Evan T. Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York. San Francisco: Council Oak Books, 2002.

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