Here are four non-cookbook picks from Lynne Rossetto Kasper:

• The Carolina Rice Kitchen: The African Connection, by Karen Hess (University of South Carolina Press, 1992).
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• Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century, by Laura Shapiro (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1986).
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• Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads, by Sylvia Lovegren (Macmillan, 1995).
• Saltwater Foodways: New Englanders and their Food, at Sea and Ashore in the Nineteenth Century, by Sandra L. Oliver (Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc., 1995).

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