Cooking and recipes

• Food on bbc.co.uk
• The Foody
• Epicurious

Food allergies

• British Allergy Foundation
• British Nutrition Foundation
• Coeliac Society UK
• The Anaphylaxis Campaign

Holgate ST, Church MK, Lichtenstein LM: Allergy, 2nd Edition, 2001, Mosby
The heavy-duty, definitive text on allergies in general.

Lesof M (ed): Food allergy issues for the food industry, 1997, British Food Manufacturing Industries Research AssociationSpecialist textbook aimed at manufacturers.

Wood P, Understanding Immunology, 2001, Pearson Education
Accessible student-level text that doesn’t pre-assume a lot of immunological knowledge.

Food additives

• British Nutrition Foundation
• Food Standards Agency
• The School of Food Bioscience at the University of Reading

Hanssen M: E for Additives, 2002, Thorsons
The latest version of the definitive book about 'E' numbers.

World Cancer Research Fund / American Institute for Cancer Research: Food, Nutrition and the Prevention of Cancer, 1997.
Report by the WCRF on positive and negative impacts food can have on cancer.

Lu, FC: Basic Toxicology, 3rd edition, 1996, Taylor & Francis
Accessible student-level text.

Saltmarsh M (ed): Essential Guide to Food Additives, 2000, Leatherhead Publishing
Guide for the food industry.

Kendrew J and Lawrence E (eds), The Encyclopaedia of Molecular Biology, 1994, Blackwells Science
The low-down on chemical carcinogenesis and much more.

Stryer, L: Biochemistry, 1995, W H Freeman & Co., New York
All you ever wanted to know about DNA and everything else that goes on in cells.

GM food

• Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Commission
• Food Safety Act 1990
• Food Standards Act 1999

Reiss MJ and Straughan R: Improving Nature? The Science and ethics of genetic engineering, 1996, Cambridge University Press
A somewhat pro-GM examination of scientific and ethical issues.

Mae-Wan Ho. Genetic Engineering, Dream or Nightmare? 1998 Gateway Books
An environmentalist’s scientific critique.

Kendrew J and Lawrence E (eds), The Encyclopaedia of Molecular Biology, 1994, Blackwells Science
Molecular biology - encyclopaedia format.

Stryer, L: Biochemistry, 1995, W H Freeman & Co., New York
A definitive text on what goes on at the molecular level.

Ethics

• Henry Doubleday Research Association
• National Farmers' Union
• The Animal Welfare section of the Defra website
• The Soil Association

British food culture

Beardsworth, Alan and Keil, Teresa (1997) Sociology on the Menu, Routledge

Burnett, John (1989) Plenty and Want: a social history of food in England from 1815 to the present day, Routledge 3rd edition

Caplan, Pat (ed) 1997) Food, Health & Identity, Routledge

Driver, Christopher (1983) The British at Table 1940-1980, The Hogarth Press

Griffiths, Sian and Wallace, Jennifer (eds) Consuming Passions: food in the age of anxiety, Mandolin

Mennell, Stephen (1985) All Manners of Food, Blackwell

Mennell, Stephen, Murcott, Anne and van Otterloo, Anneke (1992) The Sociology of Food: Diet, Eating and Culture, Sage

Murcott, Anne (ed) (1998) "The Nation's Diet": the Social Science of Food Choice, Longman

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