Food Writing category: 1790 books
Home Cooking
A Writer in the Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
A delectable mix of essays and recipes from the critically acclaimed writer: “As much memoir as cookbook and as much about eating as cooking” (The New York Times Book Review).
In this delightful celebration of food, family, and friends, one of America’s most cherished kitchen companions...
On the Noodle Road
From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
A food writer travels the Silk Road, immersing herself in a moveable feast of foods and cultures and discovering some surprising truths about commitment, independence, and love.
As a newlywed traveling in Italy, Jen Lin-Liu was struck by culinary echoes of the delicacies she ate and cooked...
Diet for a Small Planet
The Book That Started a Revolution in the Way Americans Eat
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
The book that started a revolution in the way Americans eat
The extraordinary book that taught America the social and personal significance of a new way of eating is still a complete guide for eating well in the twenty-first century.
Sharing her personal evolution and how this groundbreaking...
by Fuchsia Dunlop
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2009
"Not just a smart memoir about cross-cultural eating but one of the most engaging books of any kind I've read in years." —Celia Barbour, O, The Oprah Magazine
After fifteen years spent exploring China and its food, Fuchsia Dunlop finds herself in an English kitchen, deciding whether...
Feeding Nelson's Navy
The True Story of Food at Sea in the Georgian Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
The author of How to Cook from A-Z disproves the myth of British navy culinary misconduct in “a work of serious history that is a delight to read” (British Food in America).
This celebration of the Georgian sailor’s diet reveals how the navy’s administrators fed a fleet of more than...
Tacos
Recipes and Provocations
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
**Superstar chef Alex Stupak's love of real Mexican food changed his life; it caused him to quit the world of fine-dining pastry and open the smash-hit Empellón Taqueria in New York City. Now he'll change the way you make--and think about--tacos forever. **
Tacos is a deep dive into the art...
Spoon Fed
How Eight Cooks Saved My Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
From the prominent New York Times food writer, a memoir recounting the tough life lessons she learned from a generation of female cooks-including Marion Cunningham, Alice Waters, Ruth Reichl, Rachael Ray, and Marcella Hazan.
Somewhere between the lessons her mother taught her as a child and...
Cheese and Culture
A History of Cheese and its Place in Western Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Behind every traditional type of cheese there is a fascinating story. By examining the role of the cheesemaker throughout world history and by understanding a few basic principles of cheese science and technology, we can see how different cheeses have been shaped by and tailored to their surrounding...
The Bizarre Truth
How I Walked Out the Door Mouth First . . . and Came Back Shaking My Head
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Andrew Zimmern, the host of The Travel Channel’s hit series Bizarre Foods, has an extraordinarily well-earned reputation for traveling far and wide to seek out and sample anything and everything that’s consumed as food globally, from cow vein stew in Bolivia and giant flying ants in Uganda to...
Mangoes & Curry Leaves
Culinary Travels Through the Great Subcontinent
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
For this companion volume to the award-winning Hot Sour Salty Sweet, Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid travel west from Southeast Asia to that vast landmass the colonial British called the Indian Subcontinent. It includes not just India, but extends north to Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal and as far...
Appetite City
A Culinary History of New York
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
New York is the greatest restaurant city the world has ever seen.
In Appetite City, the former New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes leads us on a grand historical tour of New York's dining culture. Beginning with the era when simple chophouses and oyster bars dominated the culinary...
The President's Kitchen Cabinet
The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
An NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary Work—Non Fiction
James Beard award–winning author Adrian Miller vividly tells the stories of the African Americans who worked in the presidential food service as chefs, personal cooks, butlers, stewards, and servers for every First...
by Lisa Stoffer, Michael Lesy, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
What we ate, how we ate, and how eating changed during America’s first real food revolution, 1900–1910.
Before Julia Child introduced the American housewife to France’s cuisine bourgeoise, before Alice Waters built her Berkeley shrine to local food, before Wolfgang Puck added Asian flavors...
The French Chef in America
Julia Child's Second Act
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
In this enchanting follow-up to My Life in France—Julia Child’s beloved and best-selling memoir—her co-author and grandnephew, Alex Prud’homme, chronicles Julia’s rise from home cook to the first celebrity chef. While at the beginning of her career Julia’s name was synonymous with French...